…get there on the natch is I in principle grant that it must be so or we wouldn't have saint Teresa of Avila and John Chrysostom and all that but you know these people were one every hundred or two hundred years. I'm interested in every man, woman and…

…here is this same author writing of mescaline and reaching for metaphors drawn from meister Eckhart, St John of the cross, John Chrysostom, comparing the light falling into the folds of his trousers to the light of Caravaggio and Duccio and fra Angelico.…