How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
I walk around with jitters, headaches, and sadness ballooning and squiggling about inside me that seem to belong to somebody else. Is this schizophrenia, or merely a normal, natural, typical, wholesome, logical, universal schizoid formation? (I could plead temporary insanity. They would call it a mercy killing. There would be testimony under oath that it was done to put him out of his misery. He isn't miserable.) (6.8)
Slocum isn't insane, nor is Derek miserable. But ironically, Slocum would have to claim insanity to put Derek out of any misery. Huh? Slocum might be losing it a bit here, or else he's clearly not thinking things through before he says them. Or maybe what Slocum is saying is acknowledging that categories like "insane" make no sense in a world that is insane. There doesn't seem to be anything sane or healthy about the lifestyles of any of these people. Maybe the way we've got reality set up is…actually kind of insane.