Subjunctivitis

(the rhetoric of alogicality)

So, he may have asked himself, how had all this all come to be? Thinking all along something along the lines of “Well, if this had then been so and so, the outcome might (or not) have been finer even if not what was hoped for,” even if that were something that might be werethier, as it were, as if some hopes and fears

were yet to meet in a thee or a thou tonight.