Suppose we don’t find a solution. If success presupposessecret conditions, let’s assume we won’t be told what they are.But do we have alternatives? Should we work hard, or just get lucky?Better focus on self-improvement—foreign travel, opera tickets,poetry workshops. Better self-improvement than a deaththat repeats itself over and over. Over and over, the system returnsthe same error—twelve—and the message describes a symptombut not the disease, which might be a virus or a failureof the immune system for all we know. Who volunteered usfor this torment? Did we once say, “We’d like to help?” OK, we did,but did we say, “We believe something can be done, so punish us”?It doesn’t matter; we don’t control these circumstanceswhether for good or for bad. Better go back and try again later.