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H2O Man

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2. Sure.
Sat Mar 3, 2012, 02:48 PM
Mar 2012

Douglass uses Merton's description:

"It is the void that contradicts everything that is spoken even before the words are said; the void that gets into the language of public and official declarations at the very moment where they are pronounced, and makes them ring dead with the hollowness of the abyss. It is the void out of which Eichmann drew the punctilious exactitude of his obedience."

Satyagraha & the Unspeakable [View all] H2O Man Mar 2012 OP
Would you kindly talk about how each of them used the term "Unspeakable"? bleever Mar 2012 #1
Sure. H2O Man Mar 2012 #2
Thanks. bleever Mar 2012 #3
Some mighty dark forces are aligned against us today. mmonk Mar 2012 #4
I kinda like personality quirks hfojvt Mar 2012 #5
Du rec. Nt xchrom Mar 2012 #6
Thomas Merton's journals Beringia Mar 2012 #7
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