Page 327 "Revenant, sitting beneath their portraits, sullen, crabby, posed a bizarre contrast to their dialectical history."

From page 327 of the book:  Revenant, sitting beneath their portraits, sullen, crabby, posed a bizarre contrast to their dialectical history. A "How To" book on binoculars lay open in front of him on his desk. Piled next to the book on binoculars was a copy of Diseases of Canaries by Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz. Beneath that was Mervin Roberts' All About Breeding Canaries. I refixed my attention onto the priest.

Above & below left: Robert Stroud, the Bird Man of Alcatraz