there was nothing, not a thing, to connect him with a person who, while he existed, was unaware that there was no point in thinking, who had written a few unreadable books full of ponderously negative sentences and depressing logic in claustrophobic prose, a series of books in fact, when it had long become obvious, almost immediately obvious, that no one read them of course, and, that being the case, he must long have been washed up as a philosopher, no one was making any serious attempt to understand him or what his sentences, his logic, his diction or prose might be about, and in the meantime he had practically no income
-- Narration (N/A)

Importance: This passage captures the man’s alienation from his own past and his belief that the self who once wrote and thought has vanished. His tone of scorn and self-erasure establishes the nihilism that defines him at the...