the philosopher asks what are the three things everyone wants most and more of ... light life love ... and the three worst ... falsehood death hatred ... next ask who's the father of the lie and who his children are ... who is it that wanted and wants to kill the truth from the beginning ... now look at privation ... look at infinity through the passion of quantity ... going on forever because you have not met your end ... passionate about addition ... clever with subtraction and delay ... amenable to by nature grasping at the end ... but having it always denied ... deprived of finality ... living the lie ... what would be best but to die ... there's an end of it ... finally it makes sense ... the children of the lie are addicted to this one power ... the potency of a limit receptive of every act ... they're tired of the endless truth ... they want all that to end ... they want everything to end ... and they count it insane that nothing ever does ... that the light is still shining ... with love we rise from the dead ... is nothing they ask sacred any more
1. kreeft, rpnt 138; 2. tom wright, john 8: 43-4; 3. compendium 18.
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