“Dear reader. Dear, dear reader. Here we find ourselves, you and me, engaged in a book in which someone has just exclaimed, in all seriousness, 'The sentient lobsters!'How did we end up here? Did we make some mistake along the way?”
“However, I'm here to tell you dear reader that there is always more than meets the eye.”
“It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.”
“Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
“But now, my dear, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere.”
“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”