'This isn’t a story about what happened to him at the office. There are stories he could tell you about that: the way he stumbles from one urgent demand to another; the lumpen dread he feels when confronted with a furious fluster of emails. This is not the story of the loneliness that comes upon him halfway through another pointless meeting. He’ll save those stories for another time. (Introduction)
Epigraph:
There may come a time
When you’ll be tired
As tired as a dream that wants to die
— Paul Simon, “Further to Fly”