Behind the outer face of nature lie deep mysteries, plots and unknown relationships, and time has different rhythms and different orders, with their own enigmas and truths. Faced with the straitjacket of rationalism, it is necessary to accept that the events that came together in the death of Alec are steeped in mystery. With Alec's death, certain isolated facts come into perfect harmony; facts that, without the denouement, would make no sense and would surely be wiped from human memory. If Alec had not died, a dark fatalism tells me that the omens of his disappearance would not have occurred either. I would almost say that the reason for their occurring was Alec's death itself, which was a cause even before it happened.