Yet there must be people, it seems. You can’t get by without them. People have tried, I know. Where are they now, those people who took themselves off to the desert or shoved themselves up a column to be far from man and closer to God?
There’s a little bit of knowledge I have retained over the years; the fact that there were such people. I have no idea why I have hung on to it, and even less of an idea as to whether holding on to it has done me any good. Still less what it says about me. If anything. I have also retained the fact that all the continents were once one big land mass. Everything jammed together, surrounded by a broiling sea. I have also retained the fact that necessary is one C and two Ss, and the reason for that is this; I can still hear a little rhyme in my head – en-e-ce
