He snapped a picture of me with my mouth open and my eyes closed.

A true Renaissance man, Walcott has consistently resisted being cubbyholed. He has rejected neither his Caribbean heritage nor his British education.

One can imagine an Eichmann who was capable of questioning the meaning of this or that defense for his actions that he might give...

To take such expressions as literal statements of fact runs so counter to the experience of Christians from day one as to undermine any belief in them. A literary pedancy makes such biblical language less credible, not more credible.