The frustration level is very, very high.

We have very few options, and the clock is ticking. It's getting very late in the game.

We're trapped in this twilight zone.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated. Frustrated babies tend to throw food and make a mess. Frustrated citizens tend to execute kings and queens and make a democracy. And frustrated moths tend to bang up against lightbulbs and make light fixtures all dusty.

We just had a good approach. Maybe he said that out of frustration. He can think whatever he wants.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to fail.