the rest is silence

From Haidu, Peter. 'The dialectics of unspeakability'. Probing the limits of representation: Nazism and the 'Final Solution'. Ed. Saul Friedlander.

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"Silence is the antiworld of speech, and at least as polyvalent, constitutive, and fragile. The necessary refuge of the poet, the theologian, and the intellectual, it is equally the instrument of the bureaucrat, the demagogue, and the dictator. Silence can be the marker of courage and heroism or the cover of cowardice and self-interest; sometimes, it is the road sign of an impossible turning. Silence resembles words also in that each production of silence must be judged in its own contexts, in its own situations of enunciation. Silence can be a mere absence of speech; at other times, it is both the negation of speech and a production of meaning. At times, it has to be overcome, and for the same reasons the effort is made to index a 'beyond' of language in full recognition of the fact that language is not to be transcended: silence is one of the ways in which we make sense of the world, and as such, it is one of the differends over which we struggle."
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