Nada

September 11, 2000

The old servant prayed, "Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name. Thy kingdom nada."

What is meant by "nada", no-one knows. Just as no-one knows what is meant by "Godot". And it’s not important to give it meaning. In Hemingway’s story, A Clean Well-Lighted Light, (partially translated into Indonesian by Chairil Anwar), this Christian prayer changes, with God’s role gone, so too his name and heaven. Nothingness seems to replace G

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