Wittgenstein, when he was contemplating suicide, had summed up the mindset as ‘the state of not being able to get over a particular fact.’ As she’d said so many times to Halyard, she wasn’t suicidal – and yet that fit her pretty well. Everything was broken. The only remaining valid actions were those taken in reaction to that fact, and they were valid only in proportion to the honesty and completeness of the reaction.
