"The Unspeakable— It is the void that contradicts everything that is spoken even before the words are said; the void that gets into the language of public and official declarations at the very moment when they are pronounced, and makes them ring dead with the hollowness of the abyss. It is the emptiness of the end. It is the void out of which Eichmann drew the punctilious exactitude of his obedience. You are in no position to issue commands, but you can speak words of hope. Shall this be the substance of your message? Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man, for it is the image of God." Thomas Merton
