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  • I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world to come is in a sense always already here, if still unavailable. I find this idea powerful for several reasons. For one thing, it's an antidote to despair.

    "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.