Section 10: Epilogue, Undated Summary

In the undated Epilogue, Jared addresses the reader directly. He had entrusted the tape of B's lectures to a friend, but the friend's apartment was ransacked and the tape stolen. His friend was supposed to have copied the tape and stored a copy elsewhere, but he had not yet gotten around to it. Jared blames himself for still being too trusting. Jared writes his journal with the hope and possibility of being read by others. He does not end here because B's teachings are complete; that is a laughable idea. If the obscuring lenses of the Great Forgetting which causes the intellectual growth to be stunted and warped are removed, it will be done by a whole new generation of authors and teachers, including the reader who must teach others that the "vision is the river, and we who...