Life weighs on Emeric as an inordinate and Byronic arrogance.
By university
- and nineteen years surviving preoccupied pedigreed parents -
everything is vainglorious; achievement is folly. Preferable to study
he wanders campus- thinking:
the pool
;dismisses it, as: conspicuous.
[He’s considered the roof; pretentious. He’s contemplated the bath; prosaic.
It might have come about through ennui -
until the library.]
