The recovery of the text is to mediate hope of utter fidelity into all futures in the face of a dominant text of despair. I need use little energy arguing that the dominant text of our culture is a practice of despair. A closed, settled world of reasonableness requires that there are no new gifts to be given, and there is no Giver who might give gifts. There is nothing more than management and distribution of what is already there, distribution and redistribution, wars