We have more than we need even to support our economies. Their presence shall not be missed their passing neither mourned nor noted.

Many millions of men exist for no purpose now, and to no effect whatever. What is most of his life, even to himself, but background noise? Feaster’s not on camera his moves have not been registered the angles his elbows have assumed do not remain like played cards and his thoughts…as for them, they do not fluster the air so much as an arm wave. They would bloat our bellies like soaked beans if we’d let them-crowd our thoughts-though unlike food and water, consciousness, itself, fills nothing up. It will untub with a sound too common to comment on. We must be attentive because everything we now observe will pass: the water of his bath will disappear as easily as Mr. He has been considering what the heat of his tub has done to his sperm, for he has read that such heat kills, penetrating even the soft protective sacking of the scrotum and he has been pondering, consequently, the possibilities lost, the thousand or moreso lives unrealized, the risks untaken, sparks unstruck, the deaths for which he cannot be held accountable-not by the state, or even by the papacy. There he has spent some fifteen minutes soaking, the warm gray water high as his collar.

Blotner faulkner