She would phone Leslie and Liam sometimes, say she was fine, fine, let the calls get farther apart, make up a life for herself and they'd finally forget. She understood why Ann had come here and stayed here and died here. Nothing mattered, really, because an anonymous city is the moral equivalent of a darkened room. She could spend her entire life trying to weave meaning into it, like compulsive gamblers and their secret schema.

There was no meaning, no lessons to be learned, no moral - none of it meant anything. She could waste years at home trying to make sense of a random series of events. God does not hesitate to save if the standard is met (e.g. You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will deliver to you your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

It was the perfect place to escape from a painful past. Many teachers and students have a negative view of assessment-related activities such as. She walked through the underpass at the Elephant and Castle, enjoying the sense that nothing really mattered, not the truth about the past, nor whether they believed her, not Winnie's drinking or Vik's ultimatum.

Do not hesitate show no mercy