Aaron Tracy

You try avoiding all the cracks in the pavement, or you touch all the posts in the fence, but then you find out later that it doesn't help.

You find out that it's not going to make a bit of difference if you step on the cracks or not.

I think I just realized subconsciously that if you start thinking about bad luck, you're starting to weaken.

The great thing is to keep going.

Whatever happens, Dahl finishes.

So unlike his father, Dahl decides to live.

He becomes the embodiment of that famous Samuel Beckett phrase.

You must go on.

I can't go on.

I'll go on.

Tessa, meanwhile, needs her parents' help too.

This poor girl.

She watched her brother's accident from the sidewalk, and now her older sister is dead.

She's understandably struggling.

The dolls take her to see Anna Freud, a pioneering psychoanalyst and the youngest daughter of Sigmund.

Anna suggests family therapy for the dolls, but Roald refuses.

His writing still isn't going well, and he doesn't want to take any chances of losing his edge.

He says he's seen too many writers who could never create anymore after they had all their nooks and crannies flattened like pancakes.

No therapy for him.

But Dahl does need to find something, something that will give his life meaning again.