"Prefigurement" Quotes from Famous Books
... itinerant tribe that, in its gipsy lack of territorial possessions, was not even a nation. Like his people he too was a vagrant. Like them he had no home. Other gods had temples and altars. He lacked so much as a shrine. In prefigurement of the Wandering Jew, each day he moved on. The threats of a land that never smiled were reflected in his face. The sight of him was ... — The Lords of the Ghostland - A History of the Ideal • Edgar Saltus |