TRTR 2,1 SRP in TR

[Michael Bailey]

self-referential passage on page 372

 (Basil Valentine is sharing his knowledge)

"...but what in heaven's name do you want to know this sort of thing
for?  A novel?  But...yes, perhaps he can, if he thinks it will do any
good.  But you can tell your friend Willie that salvation is hardly
the practical study it was then.  What? ... Why, simply because in the
Middle Ages they were convinced that they had souls to save.  Yes.
The what?  The *Recognitions*?  No, it's Clement of *Rome*.  Mostly
talk, talk, talk.  The young man's deepest concern is for the
immortality of his soul, he goes to Egypt to find the magicians and
learn their secrets.  It's been referred to as the first Christian
novel.  What?  Yes, it's really the beginning of the whole Faust
legend.  But one can hardly...eh?  My, your friend is writing for a
rather small audience, isn't he."