A book by Volterra, pseudonym of Khurram Malik, on religion, art, and history, and a work of art itself written in a multiplicity of genres and parodies of them. A passage from a ""poetry"" section, or a parody of a poem, ""Comparing the understanding of x and y: Homer more than Chaucer, / Means he judging them is not less than Homer: / So criticism implies that is the critic/ Himself supreme; none, before me, has grasped the logic: / Read once one writing, Stendhal understood society less than Tolstoy, / Meaning the critic understood more, will you believe his joy?/ If so, why didn't the critic equal Tolstoy?""