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Though the fear of what was coming returned to him a little, he looked upward to a presence and spoke with it and listened to the answering silence. He knew now that this silence was not absence or negation. It was the language transcending all language, and it crossed the void that man's will had made between himself and God.

Michael D. O'Brien — The Father's Tale

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