The vision that drives Dean Jocelin to construct an immense new spire above his cathedral tests the limits of all who surround him. The foundationless stone pillars shriek and the earth beneath them heaves under the structure's weight as the Dean's will weighs down his collapsing...
An apocalyptic portrait of one medieval man's spiritual vision by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding. There were three sorts of people. Those who ran, those who stayed, and those who were built in.
Dean Jocelin has a...