“Call it much or call it little, the ineffaceability of this deep stain of experience, it is the interest of old places and the bribe to the brooding analyst.”

“Thus the Law, even in its ineffaceability, is retraced to a divine act of will and provided with the task of the recognition of sin and the provocation of transgression.”

“The significant difference between Marlowe and the mystery plays is actually that Marlowe forces his audience to see the unsettling ineffaceability of the marginal.”