Monomolecular vivisection

“ It’s strange, the paths a man finds himself on. In the storybooks everyone’s granted some critical moment, when the road forks and your options are laid out clear before you. But it’s not like that, is it? Decisions follow decisions, each minor in and of itself, made in the heat of the moment or the dregs of instinct. Then one day you look up and realize you are stuck, that every muttered answer is a bar in the cage you built, and the momentum of every choice moves you forward as inexorably as the will of the Firstborn. ”