the child would ask him questions about the world that for him was not even a memory. He thought hard how to answer. There is no past.

“The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witnes…”

“We used to talk about death, she said. We don’t anymore. Why is that?I don’t kn…”

“I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet.…”

“I got here the same way the coin did.”