I agree with all of the thoughts above, but another interesting way to look at it could be that the narrator is self-aggrandizing the things he does, despite the fact that they would happen whether he were doing them or not. A cog in the machine can be easily replaced; a river flows whether we're there to assist it or not.
I agree with all of the thoughts above, but another interesting way to look at it could be that the narrator is self-aggrandizing the things he does, despite the fact that they would happen whether he were doing them or not. A cog in the machine can be easily replaced; a river flows whether we're there to assist it or not.