We will feel the draft blowing through the cracks in the structure of causality. - Cees Nooteboom

The world is a never-ending cross-reference.

From the number of self-murderers he had known-you had to put it that way, for the fact that someone died rounded off your knowledge of that person, if only because he or she could no longer present you with surprises-he was able to conclude that his circle of acquaintance must consist of a thousand people. If he were to invite all these voluntary dead to tea, two boxes of cream cakes from Berkhof's would scarcely suffice. (Page 20)

Every period in history has its own punishments, and ours has a multitude.