latching onto characters that have “i’m already dead at the start of this story” written on their foreheads like that sign can’t stop me because i can’t read
“This group is remarkable, although it has vanished in the invisible depths which are behind us. At the point of this drama which we have now attained, it will not be labor lost, perhaps, to throw a ray of light upon these heads, before the reader watches them enter the shadows of a tragic adventure.“