But none of it meant anything to me — and it did to Thomas, though he admitted he couldn’t get his feelings into words. Father said: “If you could, my boy, I’d go out and drown myself.” Then he roared with laughter because Topaz said Section A had “overtones of eternity.” As far as I am concerned, it all has overtones of lunacy —— NO. I am jeering again. I am DENSE. If Simon says father’s Enigmatism is wonderful, then it is. (It was Simon who christened it “Enigmatism” — and a very good name for it.)
