... And he though: "I'm no longer waiting, I've cleared myself out, sterilised myself into a being that can do nothing but wait. I am now empty, it is true, but I am waiting for nothing."
His heart's not empty, it's a black hole. He's Mr. Gamma Rays, baby ... sterilises everything touches. Would that such sort really were islands.
'Course, then again, maybe it's just the Wilsonian headaches and nightmares I had rehearsing with and playing for a deeply existentialist director the part of Inez the lesbian bitch in "No Exit".
Well, that or the way someone informed me once -- a la Sartre to his idiot Simone -- "Love only lasts two years".