Blogs are the Devil

"there's a hole in the world now. in the place where he was, there's now just nothing. a center, like no other, of memory and hope and knowledge and affection which once inhabited this earth is gone. only a gap remains. a perspective on this world unique in this world which once moved about within this world has been rubbed out. only a void is left. there's nobody now who saw just what he saw, knows what he knew, remembers what he remembered, loves what he loved. a person, an irreplaceable person, is gone. never again will anyone apprehend the world quite the way he did. never again will anyone inhabit the world the way he did. questions i have can never now get answers. the world is emptier. my friend is gone. only a hole remains, a void, a gap, never to be filled."

-nicholas wolterstorff, lament for a son