Stupid Men

 this fat beast pervert fuck trying to ruin their best efforts. Their chances to help. Their chances to do the obvious. And what they would do. To get something better out of such a terrible situation. With all the hurt and pain on one side. And all that tragic humanity and confused existentialism on the other. And all of it surrounded by the braying angry masses in the coliseum hoarding their own desperate fears soaked in lust and safety and outraged inequity

 Immortality is prolonged future, and the future of any artifact lies in
the direction of increased flexibility capacity for change and
ultimately mutation. Immortality may be seen as a by-product of
function: "to shine in use." Mutation involves changes that are
literally unimaginable from the perspective of the future mutant.
Coldblooded, nondreaming creatures living in the comparatively weightless medium of water could not conceive of breathing air, dreaming, and experiencing the force of gravity as a basic fact of life. There will be new fears like the fear of falling, new pleasures, and new necessities. There are distinct advantages to living in a supportive medium like water. Mutation is not a matter of logical choices.

He returned to the bedroom and began throwing clothes into a suitcase, taking the Bowie knife from the top of the dresser and rolling it up in a shirt.
At seven o'clock, unable to wait any longer, he drove to the park, went to his bench and waited.
The girl appeared, walking across the damp grass, at nine. She wore a shabby pink dress he had seen many times before, and she moved swiftly, wrapped as ever in her private isolation. They were alone for the first time since Don had thought of watching the playground. He coughed, and she looked directly at him.
And he thought he understood that all of these weeks, he sitting rooted to his bench and fearing for his sanity, she obliviously, concentratedly playing by herself, had been part of her game. Even the doubt (which still would not leave him) was part of the game. She had tired him, weakened him, tortured him as she had surely tortured John Jaffrey before persuading him to jump from the bridge into a freezing river. If he was right.