(Excerpt from a letter in reply to a student.)

That’s what you’re here asking about, why you’re reading this, why you’ve sought me out or why the universe has put me in front of you. That’s the game you signed up to play — the only game there is — but now you’re wondering if a game with such a high cost of success and a near-total rate of failure might be wrong for you, and if the sewer-dungeon of perpetual prebuscence might not be so bad.