The title, that of a novel by Arthur Koestler,
has appeared before in this journal.
The title was quoted in a Log24 note of
May 29, 2002 (G.K. Chesterton's birthday).
The link in Saturday evening's post to a Chesterton
essay suggested a further search that yielded
the following quotation—
Then silence sank. And slowly
Arose the sea-land lord
Like some vast beast for mystery,
He filled the room and porch and sky,
And from a cobwebbed nail on high
Unhooked his heavy sword.
— G. K. Chesterton,
The Ballad of the White Horse
This, together with some Log24 remarks
from 2004, suggests two images—
Above: A 1955 cover design by Robert Flynn.
The arrow theme also appears in a figure from
John Sealander's Road to Nowhere in the 2004
remarks:
The remarks quoting the Sealander image, from
March 5, 2004, were on mathematics and narrative.
Related material from a year later:
See an announcement, saved from March 16, 2005,
of a conference on mathematics and narrative that
was held in July 2005. Some context: Koestler's novel.
