ON “BARREN HEART”

ON “BARREN HEART”

Sophie Scholl said, “The only remedy for a barren heart is prayer, however poor and inadequate.…if I can’t write anything else just now, it’s only because there’s a terrible absurdity about a drowning man who, instead of calling for help, launches into a scientific, philosophical, or theological dissertation while the sinister tentacles of the creatures on the seabed are encircling his arms and legs, and the waves are breaking over him. …”

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