L'enfant terrible

“Hope is a faithless shipmaster.”

“I had a dream once,

He found one word, one only for the moon.

“why are we still you?”

(—) So it's back. You'll never be mentally sober.

“You fear the wrong things. Your fear is the wrong fear.”

Everything depends on what the individual can make of being betrayed. And in order to be betrayed you need – you might have to find, to recruit, to seduce – a betrayer... Betrayal is an uncanny form of intimacy.

We have to bear something simple but significant in mind: that in betraying someone (or something) one is protecting someone (or something) else.

Here the betrayer is someone who wanted something to change;

Everything made by human hands is a thing. That is the only general definition I will allow myself.

"Hmm, yes . . . a thing."