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  • Never in his life had occasion to ask himself, "Why are things the way they are?" Why should he bother, when the way they were was always perfect? Why are things the way they are? The question to which there is no answer, and up till then he was so blessed he didn't even know the question existed.

    Philip Roth (1997). “American Pastoral”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt