blanchot-rule

This is the rule, and there is no way to free oneself of it: as soon as the thought has arisen, it must be followed to the very end.

“In bed we laugh, in bed we cry,
And born in bed, in bed we die;
The near approach a bed may shew
Of human bliss to human woe.”

Samuel Johnson | “À Son Lit,” from the French of Isaac de Benserade