–Nicolás Gómez Dávila

On a finite plane, paradoxical -- on an infinite plane, irrelevant. The magnitude of difference between the two -- the former in reverse engineering a clock telling time correctly twice a day to successive iterations of art movements and self-determining absolutists sliding down a chasm of contradictions, to the latter having the simple faith of a mustard seed and enduring life's trial by fire to attain the reward of eternal life.

Neither of these is hung on some elusive notion of originality.

What do you think?