So let's get more specific. Harwood, corporate ruler of the world and primary antagonist of ATP, declares that he wants to somehow survive beyond the singularity of the book's climax. All suffering is rooted in the desire for permanence. I heard someone say that in an Indian movie. Well, there's a satisfaction to it, for me.
Morals are for fables.
He's an entirely new character, with no name, no background beyond a few vague flashbacks, and is completely amoral. I thought of him as literally being someone who wandered in from another book. He turned up one day. Wouldn't go away. After the book was finished I wondered if he weren't some sort of avatar connected to the late William Burroughs.