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On Dialogue and Silence

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Will and Grace

Part of the book series: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education ((TRANS))

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the biblical poet who wrote john 1:1 said: “in the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god.” that is to say: in the beginning it was not the silence, it was the god of dialogue. according to the “sefer yetzira” the kabbalistic “book of creation,” god created the world with letters. therefore to say that words cannot express something or anything is sacrilegious.

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Margulies, H. (2017). On Dialogue and Silence. In: Will and Grace. Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-197-1_34

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