“They all laughed at him. Particularly a lieutenant-colonel….’I am a lieutenant-colonel,’ he said, ‘but I’ve never met any God in all my life. Where is He, your Christ? Has anyone ever seen Him?’
‘I have,’ he said, ‘I see Him every day.’”
—Abram Tertz, A Voice from the Chorus, a journal he kept during his imprisonment for being a pain to the Soviet establishment.
