I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another.

One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life.

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.