The Ponce's Portrait of Man

Ponce's portrait of man is the first part of the book and it's quite a complex portrait because it's pulling in different directions. What Ponce and I are doing in a sense is so softening the reader up for Christianity. Our predicament to embrace Christianity is one of both sort of ignorance and unhappiness and regeneness. And that was towards the end of that portrait is a depiction of a creature with this extraordinary rich collection of qualities. He's both great and wretched. He has extraordinarily intellectual potential and yet he's very much a sort of corporal object. He is neither big nor small, neither finite or infinite. This is meant to be a sort of very unsettling depiction