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Quote #10
He says, "I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that."
"You don't have to go to the party. You don't have to go to the ceremony. You don't have to do anything at all."
"But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. I'm so sick." (18.21-23)
Title alert. For Richard Brown, each hour of the day is a trial that he struggles to endure. Unlike his friend Clarissa Vaughan, Richard doesn't believe that the dark and painful hours ahead may be broken up with hours of happiness and light; to him, the future seems absolutely bleak. His solution, in the end, is to put an end to his hours once and for all.