Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us.
In the passage, the author reflects on the difficulty of resolving the complexities of life. Loose ends represent the unfinished aspects of human relationships and experiences, suggesting that truly tying them up is an impossible task. The metaphor of time being like the sea serves to illustrate how all efforts to find closure are ultimately undone as new challenges and uncertainties continuously arise.
Furthermore, the passage emphasizes that our judgments of...
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