The Magician's Elephant

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

The world is broken, thought Peter, and it cannot be fixed.

It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.

What was it like, Peter wondered, to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?

Looking out over the city, Peter decided that it was a terrible and complicated thing to hope, and that it might be easier, instead, to despair.