Making it strange : the prehistory of a literary device -- Myth : distance and deceit -- Representation : the word, the thing, the idea -- Ecce : on the scriptural roots of Christian devotional imagery -- Idols and likenesses : a passage in Origen and its vicissitudes -- Style : inclusion and exclusion -- Distance and perspective : two metaphors -- To kill a Chinese mandarin : the moral implications of distance -- Pope Wojtyla's slip.