I wish I had said to him then - yes, I know, to a tiger, but still - I wish I had said, "Richard Parker, it's over. I wish so much that I'd had one last look at him in the lifeboat, that I'd provoked him a little, so that I was on his mind. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. It's important in life to conclude things properly. For example - I wonder - could you tell my jumbled story in exactly one hundred chapters, not one more, not one less? I'll tell you, that's one thing I have about my nickname, the way the number runs on forever. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. “What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.
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