an oppositional stance...................

 

Here then is a Peripatetic who is standing his ground, a man on a walkabout without real wanderlust, a man who is, in the Borgesian formula, the perfect reader - that is to say, someone who has re-read the same passage endlessly, someone who is prepared to privilege a quorum of old religious scrolls over the lazy, aphasic multitude of brisk paperback bulletins in our three-second timespan culture . . . There is something magnificent about his single-minded oppositional stance in our deconsecrated world; and to watch him perform his rain-dance on the astroturf is to witness an ecumenical invocation of all human spiritual authority.

-Aidan Carl Mathews, from his review of Moriarty's Dreamtime