It is Carl's message, his picture of what his bondage is like. He is faced with the suicide of those who die denying they want to live on, or were ever made to live by love. It is an instantaneous tale of sadness in living and utter misery in dying.

Carl has done the trick. Translated into words he is saying to Hearty: "See! This is my exile from love, my slavery to a degrading psychism, and my final tumbling into the aloneness of Hell forever."