still , if you hope enoughif you make others happy , even if just to encourage the doctors to try againsome little strands of it will find the dark certainty of futility and take root , feigning little sprouts of hope for you yourself to cling to and maybe even believe , and harman-karman clung , not with any certainty , perhaps only for amusement , but now and then he clung , and then clung until after the third operation the doctors and the darker foundation of harman-karmans certainty finally came to terms : no , no hope .