She thinks of her grandmother, "fundamental and as still as a root," and it seems senseless to say that she is dead, "just as senseless as it is to say I myself am alive".
"It seems senseless at a time when the city has no money, and now they spend $100,000 , $150,000on a traffic light that seems to have no purpose," Mr. Needle said.
It seems senseless to him, inevitably — not just because of his anger and grief, but because he has little to say about the substance of her work there and her attitude toward it.
He sees children being shot in the arms of their parents and pizzerias blown up and it seems senseless, when we all know what the solution is going to look like".
She suffers no grief, because "life as I'd always known it shows itself now as only the negative space made by a much vaster reality". She thinks of her grandmother, "fundamental and as still as a root," and it seems senseless to say that she is dead, "just as senseless as it is to say I myself am alive". In this respect, the narrator says, she has seen through the gauze of this life.
It seems senseless not to take advantage of that, now that technology makes it possible.
