Chapter 12 - 12

No animal is designed for utter, complete solitude—no animal that has not yet become extinct, anyway. Human beings have the advantage of intelligence, of applying thought and philosophy to counter loneliness. There is even something appealingly martyrish about the challenge.

No, it's not enough. You're just not cut out for this total isolation—always observing, never participating.

Being an amnesiac is bad enough. Now you risk losing your reason as well as your memory.

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