Future Generations

How they're going to hate us, all of us, the future generations! W. can feel their hatred even now. They're not yet born, they've yet appeared on their scorched and burning earth, but they already hate us …

Some of them, of course, will never appear. It's the conditions of their birth that will have vanished. They're bodiless, soul-less, and above all, existence-less, since they'll never be born on earth.

And that's why their hatred is even greater than that of the ones who will be born. It's why they cry day and night from the heart of their non-existence: W. can hear them. It's his greatest torment.