DAVID. CONTENTS Terrified. Nullius, my friend, you frighten me. What have I done to deserve your anger and these cruel, terrible words of yours? You have always treated me and my children so kindly.... Your hair is just as grey as mine, in your face I have long observed a hidden grief, and—I respect you, Nullius! Why are you silent? A terrible fire is burning in your eyes.—Who are you, Nullius? But you are silent.—No, no, do not lower your eyes, I am even more terrified when they are lowered, for then upon your brow appear fiery letters of some vague—of some terrible—fatal truth. ANATHEMA. CONTENTS Tenderly. David! DAVID. CONTENTS Joyously. You have started to speak, Nullius. ANATHEMA. Be silent and listen to me. From madness I will bring you back to wisdom, from death to life. DAVID. I am silent and I am listening. ANATHEMA. Your madness consists of this, David Leizer,—you have sought for God all your life, and when God came to you, you said: "I do not know You." Your death consists of this, David Leizer,—blinded by misfortunes, like a horse that is turning around in the darkness, you failed to notice the people and you remained in their midst alone, with your illness and your
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