"But a sense that there might also exist some entirely different destination, one that he couldn’t yet see but which lay just beyond the obscuring undergrowth of long habit and expectations, troubled him and kept him from moving forward.  He had no idea how to hack through the foliage, nor whether whatever he uncovered would […]

I really didn’t mean to like it, but I did.
I want to know who the characters are based on,  so if you know, let me know.  Because I like to be in the know!
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"It’s impossible to have a child and despise the world, because that’s the world we’ve put the child into.  The child makes us care about the world, think about its future, willingly join in its racket and turmoils, take its incurable stupidity seriously."
"Deep down he knows very well that this would be the only reasonable […]