

From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world.They have been and will continue to be a cause of unspeakable sufferings, of carnage, or monstrous physical and spiritual acts of violence that constitute one of the darkest chapters in human history. No religion, without exception, will ever serve to bring men together and reconcile them.Le religioni, tutte, senza eccezione, non serviranno mai per avvicinare e riconciliare gli uomini e, al contrario, sono state e continuano a essere causa di sofferenze inenarrabili, di stragi, di mostruose violenze fisiche e spirituali che costituiscono uno dei più tenebrosi capitoli della misera storia umana.Lanzarote Notebooks (1990), quoted in The Notebook, entry for 9 October 2008.God is the silence of the universe, and man is the cry that gives meaning to that silence.Deus é o silêncio do universo, e o homem o grito que dá um sentido a esse silêncio.I say 'apparent' since I am only too aware of how much work it took to ensure that it turned out like that. That could not be done by putting so-called oral language into writing, because that's impossible, but by introducing into my writing a mechanism of apparent spontaneity, apparent digression and apparent disorganisation in the discourse.

I saw that I would only be able to write it if I did so as if I were actually telling the story.

