What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me
how things fit together. He would have asked me to do chores that I felt
were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested,
but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labor,
I would have realized that there was a deeper meaning behind it all,
and that the master had a cunning plan all the time.
--Erlend Loe