Life for Sale

“His life had become something he no longer had any use for.”

Hanio tries to end it all and fails. Then he sells his life to strangers like it is junk mail. It makes you wonder what you would do if you stopped being afraid.

“He felt neither fear nor any desire to escape.”

The vampire woman scene is so strange. Hanio just lets things happen because he thinks he is already dead. Total indifference is his only shield.

Selling your life turns out to be a lot of work. Hanio gets dragged into spy plots and family feuds. Even a meaningless life gets complicated the moment other people want it.

“The world was overflowing with things.”

He wants to be a hollow shell. But the more he tries to give up, the more the world insists on being colorful and violent. Reality refuses to let him be empty.