I have been rereading bits of Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s War & War, mainly the ending passages, but I have also been flipping through the rest, with the intent of excerpting some of the fervidly marked bits (“…we are not obliged to do anything except to comprehend that the appropriateness of the one great universal process of thinking is not predicated on it being correct, for there was nothing to compare it with, nothing but its own beauty, and it was its beauty that gave us confidence in its truth”) with enough context (which that quote entirely lacks, as the tense issues should reveal) for them to make the same sense here as they do in the book. But I cannot seem to do that.