“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
He had been a theater critic for a prestigious newspaper, a respected man with friends, a beautiful home, an elegant wife, and several mistresses. He had lived in a world full of beauty which had suddenly dissolved, like a dream that vanishes upon waking. With great determination, the man had forced that dream out of his mind.