Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.
But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.
It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.
He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.
Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.