This is a book about how reality is thin ice over the abyss of madness, consciousness is the property of giving objects existence, and any choice is the collapse of the wave function. A book about parents and children, life and death, cats and boxes, Escher’s topology and quantum physics. About the fact that we circle in the night and are consumed by flames. In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni The end of the novels “The Morse Calendar” and “The Dead Woman Plays the Violin.”