Forgiveness (n.) is already present at the start of writing, for as soon as one begins to write, it is implied that one is already asking for forgiveness, because one cannot perform what one would like to perform.
Forgiveness (n.) is an elementary condition of all forms of communication... in listening, reading, speaking, and writing.
Forgiveness (n.) is implied in listening, reading, speaking, and writing: We are asking forgiveness by reading.
Forgiveness (n.) does not dissolve the fault but extends it, as if one always had to be forgiven for forgiveness itself.
Forgiveness (n.) that identifies with the guilty is specular, and so cannot forgive the other as other for an evil as such.
Forgiveness (n.) always carries the plea forgive me for forgiving you, since it guiltily assumes sovereignty.
Forgiveness (n.) when narcissistic is granted as soon as it is named, so automatic one wonders if it ever happened outside literature.
Forgiveness (n.) should be asked only of the wholly other other, and granted only to that other.
Forgiveness (n.) is a history of God: a covenant between God and God passing through the flaw of human desire.
Forgiveness (n.) was in the beginning: no literature fails to ask for it from its very first word.