Standing in the interval is the residual posture required by the present phase of the cycle. The traditional forms have exhausted themselves. The new forms that might one day appear are not yet visible and cannot be forced into existence by residual will. The interval is the time of residual standing. The man who remains upright within it is already performing the only task that still belongs to the higher type.
The interval is not a waiting room for a future restoration. It is the terrain on which the residual path must be lived. Action within the interval is still required. The action is measured by the permanent standard rather than by the expectation of collective results. Results of the traditional kind are no longer available. Continuity of the type remains available.
Young men often treat the interval as a temporary inconvenience that will soon be resolved by some external change. The residual path rejects that treatment. The interval may last. The demand to stand does not depend on its length. The man who stands without calculating the duration of the interval is already living the residual form of the long view.
Stand in the interval without waiting for it to end. The man who keeps the permanent measure present under residual conditions is already living the deeper continuity that the sequence has been clarifying.