ABSENCE OF GOD SPEAKS

“Like sacred speech, what is written co- mes from no one knows where, it is authorless, without origin, and hence, refers to something more original. Behind the written word, no one is present, but it gives voice to absence, just as in the oracle where the divine speaks, the God Him- self is never present in His speech, and it is the absence of God that speaks then.”

Maurice Blanchot

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