John Renty Baker

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    Whither goest thou?
    Bible: New Testament Peter, in John, 13:36.

    The words, which are repeated in John 16:5, are best known in the Latin form in which they appear in the Vulgate: Quo vadis? Jesus replies, “Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.”

    Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.
    —Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)