The uncle said that convulsions are the most profitable. What? "Convulsions" and "profitable" are a combination of words that cannot possibly go together. The man who was once called a genius is now a man of the past, a lucky punch that just happened to match the flow of the times. He is called an old nuisance by those around him, a filthy stinker of old age, no longer respected by anyone, no longer needed by his family, and he ponders his own decay, stacking dried persimmons on himself and depriving others of...