...that the true reason why...

ART • "The creation of an external visual pattern by one individual in order to influence the behavior of others " John Endler

ART • Latin "artem" • Proto-Indo-European root "*ar-" which means to fit together

...Galileo Galilei was summoned before the Holy Inquisition...

...and had to recant...

"Art is what you can get away with..." Andy Warhol

...was not his inclination to the Copernican system, but his thesis...

GAM • Ancient Greek "gamos" which means "union"

OBSERVE • Latin "observere" to watch over • "ob-" to bind • PIE root *ser (1) "to protect"

...that the observed appearance of physical objects...

Alexander Kluge • Galileo The Heretic

...tell us what they actually are...

"POMSKY" • Dog breed, cross between Pomeranian and Siberian Husky

The devil's blindspot...is a copycat.

"Little mirror, little mirror on the wall..." Brothers Grimm

Which violates the doctrine of transubstantiation:

TRANS • A prefix meaning "across," "over," and "beyond"

If the wafer broken at the altar appears to be a baker's product and...

You didn’t come this far to stop

...If there is no experiment by which one may distinguish between...

You didn’t come this far to stop

...The bread before and the bread after the transformation, then....

You didn’t come this far to stop

...So Galileo maintained, the bread on the altar was bread and nothing else.

You didn’t come this far to stop

-Galileo has gone too far. Now he must retreat.

-He has gone no further than the natural sciences today. What he says is one of the core assertions on which science is based.

-But he cannot cut open the holy bread with a knife to see if blood comes out.

What will he do, if the bread really does bleed?

-He often did try that night, in Venice, on extraterritorial soil. There was no blood.

He could not have known that before hand. The next time he cuts it open he will find he has sinned. Then he will be burned.

He did recant, after all.

Translation • Martin Chalmers