"Then I felt too that i might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only or course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgments on people are never final, the emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us."
— Iris Murdoch (The Sea, The Sea)