My “perhaps,” “maybe,” peut-être cuts deeply into the name of God so much that the name (of) “God” takes place in the very element of the peut-être itself, of the “event” of the promise which is no less a threat, of the maybe which is also a maybe not. We are not the least assured that God will be there, not the least assured that God may be at all, not the least assured that the “name” of God offers anything more than a hope, a prayer, a faith in something coming, something I know not what, a hope that may turn out in fact to be a nightmare, a monster, which happens time and time again when
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