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    midline of Hampton's Throne to illustrate the direction of time's
    arrow.     188–189
5.6    Symmetrical structures from the right and left sides of Hampton's
    Throne, showing in their inscriptions the repetitions of time's
    cycle.     192–193
5.7    Swainson's rigidly numerological system of taxonomy, inconceiva-
    ble for an arrangement of organisms in a world of contingent
    history.     195
5.8    Time's arrow of homology and time's cycle of analogy combine to
    produce the Ichthyosaurus. Courtesy Department Library Services,
    American Museum of Natural History. Neg. no. 313168. 199
5.9    Ritta-Christina, the Siamese twins of Sardinia—either two nor
    one person, but residing at an undefined middle of this contin-
    uum.     201
5.10    Time's cycle in Canterbury. The tale of Lot's wife is repeated in
    the angel's advice to the Magi: do not return to Herod.     202
5.11    Ceiling bosses of Norwich Cathedral. Noah in the ark corre-
    sponds with the baptism of Jesus.     203
5.12    Painted and stained glass windows of King's College, Cambridge.
    Jonah emerging from the belly of the great fish corresponds with
    Christ rising from the tomb. Courtesy of the Provost and Fellows
    of King's College, Cambridge.     204–205
5.13    From the great south window of Chartres. Time's arrow and
    cycle connect as the gospel writers of the New Testament are
    shown as dwarfs seated upon the shoulders of Old Testament
    prophets.     206
5.14    From Chartres cathedral. At the end of time, the just rise to their
    beginning and reside in the bosom of Abraham.     207