A Concrete Block

There are some thoughts that will be forever beyond us, W. says. The thought of our own stupidity, for example; the thought of what we might have been if we weren't stupid. The thought of what he might have been, W., if he hadn't been dragged down by the concrete block of my stupidity. The thought of what I might have been, if my stupidity had simply been allowed to run its course … W. shudders.