Part Two
THE RIVER THAT FLOWS AGAINST ITS OWN CURRENT
15.15
I press for a long time and insistently, I have no choice, what can you do in such a situation—if he’s not in we’ll have to return home, and who knows what awaits us there, in that case this whole plot has been pointless, why have we dragged ourselves around town for two days, trying to make something out of this messy situation, so the whole thing is … he better be here, but no one opens the door, and I’m already thinking, well, fine, it didn’t work out, they’ll bury the stepfather and that will be the end of it, our friend will travel for the forty-days after service, if they really need him that badly, they can make a record of everything, photograph his ashes, or take a video, so that a grief-stricken Carburetor can later v
