Tried to go into town to read, found I couldn't manage it. Thinking thoughts of a darkness probably best not fully registered here. Our present society needs to go, a constant torture to those who least deserve it. I don't think it's going anywhere, sadly. There is, though, at least some justice insofar as I am forced to watch this happen, try to help and fail, again and again. Hard to imagine a more fitting punishment.

Peretz is lying flat on the other couch, looking away.