" The steadily winking glimmers beneath me slowly dimmed and at length were extinguished, not unlike the final darkness that comes to the illuminated button of a telephone in the modern office when the client has been put on hold and forgotten, and the measured patient flashings of the button show that he is still holing on, but as the minutes go by the light of the button becomes more orange, and sadder, until finally when you look over at the phone from doing something else you see that it is all over. "

― William T. Vollmann