He has been gathered into eternity, and that is no country for old men. So his bodily form is changed into that of a child. The glory that was Greece reached its pinnacle in marble, so when you want to see it at its most glorious, you go to the Louvre, for the Venus di Milo and the Victory of Samothrace. Venus has no arms, Victory has no head. The viewer has to complete the figure, and if your imagination is what it should be, you may produce something finer in your mind than any sculptor could have chiseled into stone.
Few artists are as lucky as to have head or hands knocked off their works in just the right way.
They have to leave room for imaginative completion intentionally. They have to build ambiguity into their design. A Space Odyssey are such works. Professor Beja has shown us their kinship in a lithe and lean paper in the last issue of this journal. His reasoning is as enchanting as it is convincing on internal evidence.