"No" — I could never be another person’s father, fate, god, "No" — it should never happen to another child, what happened to me; my childhood. (Ausch… - Imre Kertész

Boredom. He takes it with him everywhere, like an angry shaggy terrier that he sets on others from time to time.

You just sit here and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.

Let us call our man, the hero of this story, Kingbitter. We imagine a man, and a name to go with him. Or conversely, let us imagine the name, and the man to go with it.