Quote of the day:

[ramblin_rosie]

"[T]o the [Pearl] poet's thinking, making the inevitable irrelevant is the great prank that faith plays on the universe."
--Adam Brooke Davis, "What the Poet of Patience Really Did to the Book of Jonah," Viator 22 (1991): 277.

That's just... brilliant. :D And appropriate for Holy Week, to boot!