The Annunciation is one of the most beloved images in Western history, having given rise to some of its most enduring piety, art, and music:

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal
The Annunciation is one of the most beloved images in Western history, having given rise to some of its most enduring piety, art, and music:
I have run into that argument before. Sebastian Flyte offers it in Brideshead Revisited. Some think he got the argument from Aloysius, but I think Aloysius is too much of a cynic for that to be true. Unless his cynicism is a mere pose. Maybe Sebastian got him drunk and Aloysius told him what he really believed.
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