The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird _ though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
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Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
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