We knew each other better than anyone else and yet I left all of them in the abyss.

To which of the gulfs did he nod his head?

We all know the classic scene from cartoons: the cat reaches a precipice but goes on walking; it starts to fall only when it looks down and notices the abyss.

I stared at the abyss every day and I wanted to run away from it.

Then the abyss.