Then it seemed to me that my responsibility had ended.

A sudden great dreamy lassitude came over me.

I knew I needed food, but I had no wish for it, and no ambition to search it out.

The man in the corner mumbled at me with his toothless gums.

I remember wondering if we were all to starve there peacefully together--Schwartz and his remaining gold coins, the man far gone in years, and myself.