After Nameless provides the address and sets a meeting for ten o’clock the following evening, he terminates the call. In the living room of the suite, he settles down with his book, The Violent Bear It Away. He’s at the point where the boy, Tarwater, is setting the woods afire, when the page seems to explode silently, casting millions of tiny bits of paper in his face, whiting out the room around him before the vision floods upon him in vivid color. A montage of images, maybe sequential, maybe not, shuffle through his mind: A dimpled little girl with a ponytail, holding a floppy-eared
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