The failed exit is not a weak will. It is an argument that relocates the problem from a decision to a limit of nature. Suffering past a measure "annihilates," so the question is no longer whether to leave but whether endurance is possible. Suicide is refiled as a malignant fever. Once that refiling is accepted, the friend's counsel, the post, the short journey, the order to conquer yourself, are all the same move: a well person trying to instil strength across a boundary the system has declared impassable. Occupation can dull it for a month. The converter travels with the person, and the post becomes another proof that other people are content with inferior faculties. Ripped from the novel: "It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being, in vain he counsels him. He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid, by whose bedside he is seated."

— In our words · Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)