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Quote #4
Perhaps he realised that he could not escape. Anyway, he stayed, watching the two creatures that struggled in the one body like two moon-gleamed shapes. (12.21)
Christmas represents himself as at the mercy of these competing versions of himself. There's no room for agency or free will here.
Quote #5
[H]e believed with calm paradox that he was the volitionless servant of the fatality in which he believed that he did not believe. He was saying to himself I had to do it already in the past tense; I had to do it. She said so herself. (12.21)
Christmas chalks up the murder to his destiny and fate – as a black man, he sees himself as doomed to depravity.