Well, the question is that why I have
a tendency towards the long poem or the narrative.
Yes I think so, I mean, it's that sense of movement.
It's the sense of movement.
And then I think also the storytelling
is partly connected with that.
It kind of-- that brings in other aspects
of the biblical type imagination where
so much of spiritual reality is conveyed in a story,
in the intersection of a story with a particular person.
And for instance the parables of Christ are all cryptic stories,
and they all have this sort of narrative to them,
but they're basically at some fundamental level
deeply inarticulate.
They have a kind of stubbornness,
a sort of obdurate quality that doesn't lend itself easily
to paraphrase.