Sunday, April 1, 2012

The Veil of the Temple

Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

...and Lord Marchmain made the sign of the cross. Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing not of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

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