One of Dougald Hine’s more hilariously good lines is when he admits not having any idea how to respond to someone who I can only describe as having outrun the use of meaningful conversation: “I couldn’t even find the energy to reply with a link to a talk that might give him a clue where I was coming from.”

I could take that in a few different ways for a fair amount of time. But for now, I’m thinking of Thomas Merton: