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“When you gaze up a railroad track,” said Varensky, “there's always
a point in the infinite distance where, just before they vanish, the
parallel rails seem, to join. If a train were ever to reach that point
it would mean death.
“Life's like that--a track along which we travel on the parallel rails
of possibility and desire. The lure of the idealist is to overtake the
illusion, where possibility and desire seem to merge, and the safety of
the journey ends.”