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Apophatic is the term applied to a theology which seeks knowledge of God through what he is not rather than through what he is. A kind of negative theology.
(he says next) can also apply the concept to history, reading
the word 'inexorable' is itself inexorable [...] by the rainbow sweep of vowels which, in its cadence, describes an implacable curve--each syllable peels off irrevocably, culminating in the chiasmus of the 'X'
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