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| J.M.W. Turner, "The Angel Standing in the Sun", 1846. WikiArt. |
Shorter David Brooks, "The G.O.P, at an Immigration Crossroads", November 13 2015:
Will the Republican Party learn to see the immigration issue the way J.M.W. Turner saw the English landscape, glorious in conception – unfathomable in knowledge – solitary in power – with the elements waiting upon his will, and the night and the morning obedient to his call, sent as a prophet of God to reveal to men the mysteries of this universe, standing, like the great angel of the Apocalypse, clothed with a cloud, and with a rainbow upon his head, and with the sun and stars given into his hand? They need to do that, and they have six months.
OK, not really. But that's what's implied, I think, by the fancy Ruskin citation (
Modern Painters III, 1856) in his paragraph 5:
