You're wrong. The only thing I am searching for is a conclusion. I don't want to be salvaged, if ever I could--I just want to end and I don't know how many ways I have to tell you this before the message gets across.

[He scowled at the question, still bitter and angry even at his best and yet not directing such anger at those who didn't deserve it.]

...I'm not afraid. It is common sense and not fear which leads one to avoid a foregone conclusion.