Dead voices

I have started reading Walter Brueggemann's The Message of the Psalms, partly for fun, partly in prep for my last assignment for the Old Testament class at the Missouri School of Religion. It will be challenging, but it looks like it may help bring some sense to what has always been for me a very difficult part of the Bible. More on that later.

Anyway, there are two quotes he puts in the preface that I liked:

Poets exist so that the dead may vote.
- Elie Wiesel

Laugh at ministers all you want, they have the words we need to hear, the ones the dead have spoken.
- Rabbit in John Updike's Rabbit is Rich