The Gospel is first bad news and then good news. The Gospel contains murderous facts full of animosity and pharisaic religiosity. The Old Testament is full of violent and scandalous events. The adultery of David the king is narrated by Nathan, who transformed it into a story of repentance and salvation. Abimalek killed 70 members of his own family to consolidate his power. The lone survivor in a volcanic emotional outburst narrates a story from the hilltop of Gharism: The immortal story of trees electing their own king. It is a work of art; the Gospel is a poetic text. Literary works are narrated in a language that is very different from the scientific language of mathematics. Literary texts have metaphors and linguistics narrations with poetic resonances. So are the religious texts which carry interpretative meanings to the reader. The word entrusted to the poet can be called the essential word. Art sets off in the quest of a language that can recapture the endless movement of comprehension, literary effects of language as opposed to its representational function.

The facts behind the Mahabharata are evil happening in the form of a fratricidal war and its accompanying animosity and destruction. But the story is plotted in a narrative circle with tremendous possibility of interpretations to every reader giving everyone a push to the future of possibilities away from violence and animosity. The artist as a creator works on the bare fact of life with all its vicious nature, which he turns into something of a work of art. There is transformation taking place in the very narration. It is a way of telling the story, and it is the way fact is seen and interpreted. The narrator has eyes that see things differently, and so he or she brings a difference in the narration. The key is difference. The fact is the same, but the way it is narrated will be different. Often, the narrations are ways of remembering the past, real or imaginary. A ghost of the past is possessed, the spectres continuously haunt us. Henri Bergson wrote, “I realized, to my great amazement, that scientific time has no duration… This was the starting point of a series of reflections which led me, step by step, to reject almost all that I had previously accepted, and to completely change my point of view.” Scientifically, time repeats like a machine. Machine restores the past. Restoration is shameful, because it is never fully successful or complete. Memory does not interact with hope of imagination, making a jump. The intellect lets not what is new in each moment of history escape, it creates. Each species behaves as if the general movement of life stopped at it. It thinks only of itself, it lives only for itself. We cannot reduce the living to the dead. There is failure and fall, mea culpa.

But there is tension of continuous creation, free activity which is doing violence to the human condition in order to attain the principle of differences in kind. Memory is recreated giving hope and reconciliation. The point of departure is contraction itself; there is duration rather than repetition. Such individuals impel human nature forward through creative evolution.This act can lead to self-discovery and enrichment of the reader who discovers oneself through texts. This circle of understanding is not an orbit in which understanding happens at random, nor is it a vicious circle. What is decisive is not to get out of the circle but to come into it the right way. This is the ultimate goal of interpretation, understanding which is mending of relationship. Interpretation is grounded in something we grasp in advance – in a fore-conception.

A community which solves its problems based only on memory will collapse. Memory must be considered with full hope so that the Church can deconstruct a scandalous situation to good news. We hope the supernatural instinct for the truth of the Gospel will prevail. An evil fact is trans-substantiated to a good news, illuminating the reader by the touch of the creator, who “in the beginning said, let there be light and there was light.” A good news is one which emanates light of future from a sinful fact.