I can surmount any and all situations.

Nobody moves a house. They move about two hundred boxes, one at a time, across a weekend that also contains sandwiches and an argument about the sofa.

Whole situations only exist in advance. That is the scale anxiety prefers, because no person alive could look at one entire and feel equal to it — and it is never the scale at which anything actually happens.

What happens is Tuesday. Then the Tuesday after that. The surmounting is something you notice was done, months later, having never once done it all at once.