The Face of the Deep : A Theology of Becoming by Catherine Keller
Tag: void
Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss.
Virginia Woolf, Diary of Virginia Woolf II, Monday, October 25th, 1920
The Object And The Void by Richard Serra
We console ourselves with fantasies of bouncing back but we must hold on to what has really happened and not cover it with imagining how we are to unhappen it. Void makes loss a reality.
Iris Murdoch, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, 502–3.
[The void is] the anguished experience of lack of balance. We have been unjustly treated, insulted, humiliated: we want to get our own back, to get even, if need be to hurt innocent people as we have been hurt.
Iris Murdoch, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (New York: Penguin Books, 1992), 502.
What is the void once it is forced to cross through fire?
Jorie Graham
If the world is to be laid waste, as Revelations predicts, if it is to return to the tohu bohu, the formless void with which Genesis opens, then waste itself is to become universally abundant; nothing is to become everything, lessening will become synonymous with universal expansion. At the end of history, the Bible predicts, as at the beginning, a wasted, blasted nothingness will become extremely, absolutely plentiful.
Frank Bidart
Little Bristling Soul 