Beyond the end

p 515, wood-cut, Hughes-Stanton, 108 x 123 mm

Rocky valley leading between sharp rocks to bright half-circle of light on the horizon at right; two figures hanging onto, and two rushing from, large figure heading away from the horizon.

p 535 [tr ed pp 548/9] - 'We made the Arabs strain on tip-toe to reach our creed, for it led to works, a dangerous country where men might take the deed for the will. My fault, my blindness of leadership (eager to find a quick means to conversion) allowed them this finite image of our end, which properly existed only in unending effort towards unattainable imagined light. Our crowd seeking light in things were like pathetic dogs snuffling round the shank of a lamp-post. It was only myself who valeted the abstract, whose duty took him beyond the shrine.'

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