Thousands
of the greedy
abandoned their sweet
native hexagons and rushed
up the stairways, urged on by
the vain intention of finding their
Vindication. These pilgrims disputed
in the narrow corridors, proferred dark
curses, strangled each other on the divine
stairways, flung the deceptive books into the
air shafts, met their death cast down in a similar
fashion by the inhabitants of remote regions. Others
went mad... The Vindications exist (I have seen tw which
refer to persons of the future, to persons who are perhaps
not imaginary) but the searchers did not remember that the
possibility of a man's finding his Vindication, or sometreacherous
variation thereof, can be computed as zero.