There are empty spaces inside him that didn't exist before. This emptiness feels like hunger but Jay thinks that is really a longing, though he doesn't know what he is longing for.
Time is something to be endured; there is too much of it ahead of me. I sit on the log and listen to the silence. Why doesn't time accelerate and propel you into a new age, when you can emerge a different person -stronger,calmer, more beautiful? "