foreshadower

The image is perhaps a touch heavy-handed as a foreshadower of how Hemingway ended up.

The image is perhaps a touch heavy-handed as a foreshadower of how Hemingway ended up.

But being of our time, he has been like Maeterlinck, like Villiers de l’Isle Adam in Axël, like all who are preoccupied with intellectual symbols in our time, a foreshadower of the new sacred book, of which all the arts, as somebody has said, are begging to dream, and because, as I think, they cannot overcome the slow dying of men’s hearts that we call the progress of the world, and lay their hands upon men’s heart-strings again, without becoming the garment of religion as in old times.