And here is another set of section titles from Writing the Passions, which seem, as I recount them, to be melding more and more into the story of our adventures in unseen lands; perhaps they are guides through the labyrinth, perhaps they are statements of denial, of avoidance of what is there to be seen, if only one could look at it straight, if only for a moment, before the real shimmers and disappears:
Why Any Text At All?
Adoration
Worship and Be Punished
Abjection before the Cross
Despair/Passion
Shadow and Outcast/The Uncrowned Head
A Scornful Exhibition
Corruption’s Miracle
David Punter 