it was devoted to transcribing the words on the wall of the tower , was filled with so many new passages : ... but whether it decays under the earth or above on green fields , or out to sea or in the very air , all shall come to revelation , and to revel , in the knowledge of the strangling fruit and the hand of the sinner shall rejoice , for there is no sin in shadow or in light that the seeds of the dead can not forgive ...