For centuries, reading the Bible was all but forbidden by the Church, which preferred to keep the faithful in ignorance. There had been many authors of the Bible and the Church had no need for constant arguments on the correctness of interpreting the inconsistencies, thus blocking the possibility of turning Credo's cleavages into sects and usurpatory churches.

Being rather indifferent to the Bible anyway when a very young sculptor, noting mainly an edition with Dore's woodcuts. I had not retained the Bible stories in which David was a fledgling teenage boy, and made him a man of some thirty years. The work was completed in my 19th year while I was still overcoming the boyish tendency to finish work as soon as possible. The hands and feet were left unfinished. The nostril is jagged. There are holes at the base of the neck. After David, I became obedient to my own advice and turned into a full-fledged sculptor, just as the little girls of Gidle had so generously insisted I was. However, not before I made my Stuttering Philosopher, was I at last capable of holding my horse and not be carried away by Tedium out of the saddle and onto the ground.