[ The normal thing to do would be to ask why. The more normal thing to do would be not to have this conversation in the first place. ]

Then the garbage chute is the point-

[ But they are not normal people and she has presented him with a mystery. ]

Garbage. Becoming garbage. Inevitably. The point is- The point is that it doesn’t matter if you fidget. No matter how perfectly you control yourself, you’ll end up at the same place. It doesn’t even slow it down. You can do everything right. You can control for everything that can be controlled for and you’ll still end up-

[ Oh. Is this projecting? Maybe this is projecting. ]

-...discarded.