'With his popular authority established, the man then ordered the driver to report her exhaustion.'

Spring, and snow.

'… nichts als Welt.'

'It is high time for me to leave a world that is fast leaving me and that I shall not mourn.'

'And cynicism is also a kind of faith…'

'… in a certain sense it seems that not wanting is the only good.'

Just as I was walking by, an old man shuffling along the icy sidewalk fell down. And his wife fell down. Only I was spared. The first thing that came into my head as I helped them up was to say, 'Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, what's going on here?', as if there was way too much falling down going on. The old man was embarrassed, acting perplexed about what manner of bedeviling surfaces he was unfairly forced to contend with. 'Oh, I fall down all the time', I reassured him. (But I don't, not anymore, since I got new winter boots.)

'Oh, bless your heart', his wife told me.

'... there must be something else to strive for, something that seems possible or realizable...'

'An insuperable difficulty is a sun.'