The aim was always to be adequate to the predicament, but what seemed necessary was to do this from the side of the unquestioned adequacy and not that of the predicament which accordingly needed to be continually tailored. The strategy fails, as it was known to, but the idea was to have it fail in a measured way, at least for as long as you could, to borrow against regret, and expect regret itself to be devalued when the time came to pay it off. This was identical to every motive towards clear seeing that you also brought along.