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- Do you hear me?
- l hear you.
:21:06
l want knowledge. Not belief.
Not surmise. But knowledge.
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l want God to put out His hand...
:21:15
show His face, speak to me.
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But He is silent.
:21:21
l cry to Him in the dark,
but there seems to be no one there.
:21:26
Perhaps there is no one there.
:21:28
Then life is a senseless terror.
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No man can live with Death
and know that everything is nothing.
:21:37
Most people think neither
of Death nor nothingness.
:21:40
Until they stand on the edge of life
and see the Darkness.
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Ah, that day.
:21:47
l see.
:21:50
We must make an idol of our fear...
:21:54
and call it God.
:21:58
You are uneasy.
:22:01
Death visited me this morning.
:22:04
We are playing chess.
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This respite enables me
to perform a vital errand.
:22:11
What errand?
:22:13
My whole life has been
a meaningless search.
:22:23
l say it without bitterness
or self-reproach.
:22:28
l know it is the same for all.
:22:33
But l want to use my respite
for one significant action.
:22:41
So you play chess with Death?
:22:45
He is a skillful tactician...
:22:48
but l have not yet lost one piece.
:22:52
How can you outwit Death?
:22:56
By a combination
of bishop and knight...