The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.
"The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 54), 2003.
