He stood very straight and thought of nothing, or at least thought of thinking nothing. — Ray Bradbury

Anna said, “Must they have a reason?”

“No, not if they’re insane, no,” said Juliet. “In that case no reasons are necessary.”

All the sadder that Stone, on the brink of his greatest work, turned one day and went off to live in a town we shall call Obscurity by the sea best named The Past.

“It will only take a minute,” said Uncle Einar’s sweet wife.

“I refuse,” he said. “And that takes but a second.”