I'm knocked out of the game here.

It's too quick, too hard, and the rules are too cursedly complicated." "All the same, I'd wait a bit before I flung it up, if I were you." "Wait?
Wait?
I've done nothing but wait ever since I came to this detestable country, and my chance never turned up.

It never will turn up--here." "Why not ?" "My own fault, I suppose.

I've spent my life in going round and round the earth passionately in a circle.

I don't say that perpetual rotation is a natural function of the ordinary human being; but it's my function--I'm good for nothing else.