他认为，死亡非常接近。当您以这种方式思考。他决定，我能感觉到。我有多近。什么都没有杀死我。我没有敌人，没有对手。我只是在到期，就像杂志订阅：按月。
(Death is very close, he thought. When you think in this manner. I can feel it, he decided. How near I am. Nothing is killing me; I have no enemy, no antagonist; I am merely expiring, like a magazine subscription: month by month.)