CYCLE FORTY

1. The poet, with his rhythms (time), is the type of writer most correlative with the military, especially the unconventional militarism of a splendid soldiery, whereas the philosopher, with his thoughts (space) is the type of writer most correlative with the police, with particular reference to the special or secret police.

2. The novelist, with his plots (volume), is the type of writer whose correlation is with the conventional police, while the dramatist, with his scenes (mass), is the type of writer most correlative with conventional soldiery, the soldiery of the field, so to speak.

3. One might speak, albeit metaphorically, of the bureaucracy of drama, the democracy of fiction, the autocracy of poetry, and the theocracy of philosophy, ascending from the World to Heaven via Purgatory and Hell.