How we cite our quotes: (Part.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #10
Still young, still brilliant as ever, but surrounded by puzzling rejection, Lieutenant Barrows found himself with too much spare time, and he hated it [...] The Lieutenant, in one of his detested idle moments, went rummaging into some files [...] (3.9.64-3.10.2)
Hip is the thinker who saves the day by teaching the gestalt an ethic. This passage shows where he gets his brain-power from. To put it simply, he hates being bored, so when he risks falling into that state, he finds something to think about. That is what gets him through the rejection he faces in the Air Force. The brain is a wonderful thing.