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Death is the inventor of God.
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Death is the inventor of God.
Age carries with it a double load of guilt.
Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind.
I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.
The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.
There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it.
The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done.
Destiny isn't taken in by people trying to make what came first come afterwards.
Perhaps that's how you learn, by answering questions.
For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.