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This passage takes place after Marcher learns that May will soon die of a blood disorder. At first, he’s concerned that May’s death will be his ultimate fate. However, he then becomes suspicious that his fate isn’t coming at all, and that maybe he’s spent all this time waiting for nothing.
Because Marcher has constructed his life around his impending fate, avoiding relationships with others because he’s always expecting something major to happen, the greatest “failure” would be for nothing to happen at all (and for Marcher to look like a fool as a result). Marcher has stated many times…