Waugh y Revelación

Una oración de la emperatriz Helena a los Reyes Magos, en la novela de ese título de Evelyn Waugh, al final del capítulo XI:

'Like me,' she said to them, 'you were late in coming. The shepherds were here long before; even the cattle. They had joined the chorus of angels before you were on your way. For you the primordial discipline of the heavens was relaxed and a new defiant light blazed amid the disconcerted stars. (...)
'pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the Throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom'.

Me recordó la procesión final de Revelación: todos los que llegan tarde, los «eruditos, los retorcidos, los exquisitos» que irán detrás, en la cola al cielo en la que van delante los simples.