Which excerpt from "There’s a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella" illustrates why the man most likely continues to hit the narrator?
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"It was the very same man who now, as I'm writing, keeps whacking me, mechanically and impassively, with an umbrella."
"On that occasion I turned around filled with indignation: he just kept on hitting me. I asked him if he was crazy: he didn’t even seem to hear me."
"Many times I have let him have it with punches, kicks, and even - God forgive me - umbrella blows. He would meekly accept the blows. He would accept them as though they were part of his job."
"And this is precisely the weirdest aspect of his personality: that unshakable faith in his work coupled with a complete lack of animosity."
