and then , while the boy wondered why he had been chosen , tod would add the anguish of knowing that thing he loved more than anything in all the world , that bridge that served no good purpose except to draw tourists to the town like insects to spilled syrup will kurtz would see it all blown all to hell and he wouldnt understand why he had been chosen to witness the death of the thing he loved because he would then witness the death of the man who destroyed him .