N(othin but m'man)P

[calbert at tiac.net]

"Die lood van die Goevernement indeed. We are, perhaps, the lead 
weights of a fantastic clock, necessary to keep it in motion, to keep 
an ordered sense of history and time prevailing against the chaos. 
Very well! Let a few of them melt. Let the clock tell false time for a 
while. But the weights will be reforged, and rehung, and if there 
doesn't happen to be one there in the shape or name of Willem van 
Wijk to make it run again, so much the worse for me."

(V , Pg. 233, Perennial/ Harper&Row)