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    A Liturgy of Language: On Don DeLillo’s ‘The Silence’

    by Nick Ripatrazone Oct 15, 2020 4 minutes

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    “Man has every right to be anxious about his fate so long as he feels himself to be lost and lonely in the midst of the mass of created things.” — Père Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Hymn of the Universe 

    In the opening chapter of , the new novel by , Jim Kripps and Tessa Berens are flying home. Turbulence will come soon; the plane will go down. But first there is a steadiness: “Here, in the air, much of what the couple said to each other seemed to be a function of some automated process, remarks generated by the nature of airline travel itself. None of the ramblings of people DeLillo’s liturgy has always been one of language.

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