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<p>Job puts forward a note of interrogation; God answers with a note of exclamation. Instead of proving to Job that it is an explicable world, He insists that it is a much stranger world than Job ever thought it was.</p>
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<p>G. K. Chesterton https://www.chesterton.org/introduction-to-job/</p>
<p>On forgiving one&rsquo;s Elihu:</p>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code><span class="err">\</span><span class="n">footnote</span><span class="err">{</span><span class="n">I</span><span class="s1">&#39;ve heard said in the past that &quot;forgiveness is releasing the hope for a better past&quot; \parencite{wakefield} but it&#39;</span><span class="n">s</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">more</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">complicated</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">than</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">that</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">isn</span><span class="s1">&#39;t it? That quote itself is more complicated than that:</span>
<span class="s1">\begin{verse}</span>
<span class="s1">There are ways around being the go-to person \\</span>
<span class="s1">even for ourselves \\</span>
<span class="s1">even when the answer is clear \\</span>
<span class="s1">clear like the holy water Gentiles would drink \\</span>
<span class="s1">before they realized \\</span>
<span class="s1">forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past</span>
<span class="s1">\end{verse}</span>
<span class="s1">Primed as we are to take text out of context, wrap our own needs around it, and pretend that it is in all ways applicable to all situations (for did I not already bring up mistaking accidental, individual symbols for universal ones?), it&#39;</span><span class="n">s</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">so</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">easy</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">to</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">misremember</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">that</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">the</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">better</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">past</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">we</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">hope</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">for</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">is</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">just</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="ow">some</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">dream</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="ow">some</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">thing</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">we</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">cling</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">to</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">long</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">after</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">the</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">us</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">that</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">lived</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">that</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">past</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">has</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">died</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="w"></span>
<span class="n">Who</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">knows</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">if</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">I</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">was</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">the</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">go</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="k">to</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">person</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">the</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">punching</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">bag</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">for</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">my</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">Elihu</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">the</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">object</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">of</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">their</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">simple</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">angers</span><span class="vm">?</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">Who</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">knows</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">if</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">they</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">remember</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">me</span><span class="vm">?</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">They</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">cut</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">contact</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">without</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">telling</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">me</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">without</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">telling</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">me</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">why</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="ow">and</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">who</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">knows</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">if</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">they</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">even</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">know</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">the</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">reason</span><span class="vm">?</span><span class="w"></span>
<span class="n">Who</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">cares</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">other</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">then</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">me</span><span class="vm">?</span><span class="w"></span>
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