“Even the most terrible era of the past is at least knowable. It can be studied. The world survived it. But in the present, one never knows when the whole world could come to a terrible, crashing end.” I tried to reason with him. “The world’s not going to end today. And even if it does, it’ll happen whether or not you go into this mall with us.” “I know that. But it feels like it will. But perhaps if I just sit here and don’t move, everything will stop moving with me, and nothing bad will happen.”
