Our regular contributor Bruce Menzies contemplates them The impetus for this article came from a small book by indigenous author and theologian, Stan Grant. The title, When Words Fail Us, captures the flavour. The sub-title is more subtle: Truth Beyond Time. The book grew out of the Simone Weil lecture series delivered in 2025 at the Australian Catholic University.  References to Weil are spread throughout. Grant writes:‘Simone Weil said what the human requires is silence and warmth and what we are given is an ‘icy pandemonium’’. He notes this was written during the Second World War but says we have learnt nothing: ‘We are more brittle today, shriller, colder. Try this: mention God in polite company and watch people twitch.’ Grant asks himself why…