As if that, could make up for it. That slob never cared about anyone but himself, and he even treated himself badly. He appeared behind me at some point during the service for Augustus.
After the funeral he tried to talk to me about what happens to the characters in An Imperial Affliction after the book ended. I just couldn’t listen to him.
But I finally realized that the reason Van Houten has become such a miserable person is because he had a daughter that died of cancer. I still don’t like Van Houten as a person, but I guess I understand why he is such a tortured and miserable soul.
