Status Updates From The Man Without a Shadow

No tears, dear Margot! Tears will not help Eli—and tears will not help you. Life is cruel once you are in its grasp, and life begins to squeeze like that hideous Greek sea serpent, who squeezed the father and his sons to death—'Layo-koon.' That has not happened to you—yet—but it has begun with me, and with poor Eli too.

"'There is no journey, and there is no path. There is no wisdom, there is emptiness. There is no emptiness.'" Pauses to add, "There is the wisdom of the Buddha. But there is no wisdom, and there is no Buddha." Laughing with inexplicable good humor.