The Power of Silence

"For the first time, I experienced the despair that comes when you realize that you cannot erase yourself," he writes. "I may have fallen silent within during the years following that night in the forest." He says God must have been even quieter than all that. His silence seems implacable compared to the silence of the world and pushes nothingness to the point of bursting. 'His battlefield knows no noise, for it is always silence, death, graves, and nothingness'