Thus he thought, and he sank down upon the wet earth. At first he cried softly to himself. And then he cried loudly to the uncaring wasteland around him.
Stories about the clash between man's hubris, his will to impose his own vision of how the world is or should be, and the star uncaring reality he inevitably runs into.
The story then ends with the island returning to its daily business, seemingly unaware and uncaring of the great inner turmoil experienced by this one man.