But the great final nothingness!--And that even is nonsense, for it can be neither great nor small, and come neither sooner nor later.

Is it not so, my sweet?
Think of nothing--who cannot do that; but it is very hard to imagine nothingness.

We can neither of us achieve that.

Not even the One has a place in it.

But what is the use of racking our brains?
Only wait till to-morrow or the day after; something will happen then which will reduce our own precious persons and this beautiful world to that nothingness which to-day is inconceivable.