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“It was entirely in keeping with his personality to become set on something and follow it, regardless of the consequences. To let an impulse become a compulsion, especially if he thought he was contributing to a cause greater than himself.”

“I was adapting to it, but at times like this, I remembered that just a day ago I had been someone else.”

“During all that time, I could never get beyond the mask, could never find the man I have known inside of him.”

“I was trying to reclaim remnants of the man I remembered,”

“At the time, I was seeking oblivion, and I saw in those blank, anonymous faces, even the most painfully familiar, a kind of benign escape. A death that would not mean being dead.”

“Then, after a time, the boar faded into the backdrop, like all else that we had passed on our way from the border, and I was staring into the future again”

“While we were in that corridor, in that transitional space, nothing could touch us. We were neither what we had been nor what we would become once we reached our destination.”

“I would tell you the names of the other three, if it mattered…Besides, we were always strongly discouraged from using names: We were meant to be focused on our purpose, and “anything personal should be left behind.” Names belong belongs to where we had come from, not to who we were while embedded in Area X.”