Status Updates From Priešinimosi melancholija

I get why people say this book drives them crazy

[T]he whole of human history is no more than the histrionics of of a stupid, bloody, miserable outcast in an obscure corner of a vast stage, a kind of tortured confession of error, a slow acknowledgement of the painful fact that this creation was not necessarily a brilliant success.

slowly, slowly

Contrary to what anyone might think, it had not escaped Valuska's notice, the evidence being so readily available, that everyone he met was preoccupied by the notion of 'the collapse into anarchy,' a state that, in the general opinion, was no longer avoidable.