what they didn’t know was that I had already moved too fast, too far, and wished to travel no further. I’ve been thinking a great deal about time and motion lately, about being a still point in the ceaseless rush.

“All the unhappiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his room.”

He peeled off harmoniums here, slapped others up there, making the block letters. In Mrs. Canby’s tale, the first intimation given that Rumfoord is around the caves from time to time is given in a scene very close to the end—a scene wherein Unk finds the tracks of a big dog in the dust.