[August 2000 journal entry]
Perhaps – in addition to silent presence -- the courage to say “I don’t understand either” and then quickly return the ‘scrapheap’ Job’s questions to him for further comment would be the way the missing character in the story would gently but persistently prompt the ‘scrapheap’ Job. To do so, s/he would have to possess a radically (i.e., to the root) different perspective from the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm that is of ultimate importance to the ‘scrapheap’ Job’s three close friends.
