突然
Short-term debt can be dangerous because it creates the possibility of sudden runs.
It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to.