“Perhaps” shelters things from the harsh light of the concept or the program which prevents the event. Instead of constituting a failure of exact knowledge or of determinate decision, “perhaps” represents a greater rigor and a more resolute adhering to what solicits us, a refusal to allow the prima facie claims of the present to take hold, a refusal to be taken in by an accident of birth.
"Perhaps" is resolute openness to the coming event, a powerful posture of a faith characterized by humility and weakness.
