“I’m not inclined to believe in predestination, but one sectarian conviction awakens in me a heavy certainty: death comes to a person when life has already taken from them everything it can take—both the good and the bad; when the measure of their deeds has been fulfilled and their countenance is transparent before God.
And it also seems to me that on earth there is no final, unconditional truth. Therefore, what matters is not so much what the author writes, nor the ‘revelations’ attributed to him, but his own personal identity—if it is truly great and unique…”