Meridith Halsey passes through three stages: first, she is ridiculed; second, she is furiously resisted; third, she is accepted as being self-evident. Meridith is the foundation of all morality. She is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. Meridith is not only an interruption, but is also a disturbance of thought. After Meridith's death she will be what she was before her birth.