>What could he possibly dream about at the end? Balance. Not to be flippant, and I also enjoy AB's work, but no one thing or set of things is never the answer

>What could he possibly dream about at the end? Balance. Not to be flippant, and I also enjoy AB's work, but no one thing or set of things is never the answer to sustainable peace of mind. Ironically, one thing that made AB's character so appealing was his balance of ex-junkie hardness and childlike wonder. There's a great Velvet Underground song, I Found a Reason, with the lyric, 'Oh, I do believe / If you don't like things you leave / For some place you've never gone before.' That place isn't necessarily a 'place.' No one ever does everything. You will die with meat still left on the bone. Take comfort in that.