Then we are living in a place abandoned by God, I said, disheartened. …

Umberto Eco
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Then we are living in a place abandoned by God, I said, disheartened. Have you found any places where God would have felt at home? William asked me, looking down from his great height. ✨ Umberto Eco (1995). Name of the Rose, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Then we are living in a place abandoned by God, I said, disheartened. Have you found any places where God would have felt at home? William asked me, looking down from his great height. ✨ Umberto Eco (1995). Name of the Rose, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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