Deus enquanto metáfora

I ask Edmond Jabès:
"You say you are an atheist. How can you constantly write of God?"
"It's a word my culture has given me."
Then he expands:
"It is a metaphor for nothingness, the infinite, for silence, death, for all that calls us into question. It is the ultimate otherness."
Or, as he puts it later, in the conversations with Marcel Cohen:
"For me the words 'Jew' and 'God' are, it is true, metaphors. 'God' is the metaphor for emptiness; 'Jew' stands for the torment of God, of emptiness."

from Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabes by Rosmarie Waldrop
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