"Bach's genius lies in having found a logical system necessary to support the unnecessarily repetitive structure of cyclical time, which is no longer “given” as obvious and correct. Repetition becomes a continuous succession of questions and answers, a tremendous effort of human intelligence to fill the form of absolute time with self-sufficient content, that is, content implied in its own system, without subordinating reason to the certainty of a time already “given”. Bach's counterpoint does not need God to exist."