Listen. I’m going to try one more time. I don’t promise anything will come of it, or that I won’t try to put it off for as long as possible.… And then when I’m finished perhaps I’ll be finished for good.
“Anything can happen: anything. Or nothing. Who can say? The world, monstrous, is made that way, and in the end consumes us all. Who am I, administrated or no, to have the audacity to survive it?”