FAITH (April 10, 2008)

“Faith?” asked Tlön under his breath. He did not wait for an answer, though. He got up and walked out of the cave to the dismay of all the elders assembled around the fire. “Wherever I have been,” he told a few of his mates later that day, “it was the word ‘faith’ that spelled the beginning of the end.” “But wait,” one of them asked with some agitation, “where else have you ever been?” Tlön got up and walked out of the cave one more time. “Faith is the word of death,” one of his mates heard him whisper into the darkness out there.