“We all arrived here from the same place.” He gestures around at the walls, the windows. “We came here from life. A bleak and aimless world of uncertainty and self-delusion, of violence cloaked in compassion, of greed masquerading as order. A world of ranks and classes and races. Life. A world consumed by fear. A terrible world whose only consolati

Auschwitz God died, and we are alone in a pitiless universe.

THE MADMAN----Have you not heard of that madman who lit

a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place,

and cried incessantly: "I seek God! I seek God!"---As

many of those who did not believe in God were standing around

just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost? asked one.

Did he lose his way like a child? asked ano