His undoing has been to try to fix his despair.
He shoved solution after solution into the maw of the problem, and the problem ate them and got bigger. He shoved answer after answer into the maw of the question, when what he needed was to stare at the question until it started staring back.
The question has outrun the answers. The question has defeated the answers. The question is too big for the answers.
It always is. Even the one that seems small. Especially the one that seems small.
