“Perhaps indeed Jehovah is not dead,
But mere retir’d, withdrawn or otherwise
Contracted hath, as Zohar subtle saith,
His Essence Infinite; and, Epicurean, waits
The outcome vast with vast indifference.”

—  James Blish, book The Day After Judgment

Source: The Day After Judgment (1971), Chapter 13 (p. 161)

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