Gilkey was struck at the way the internment affected his desires: “I marveled at the way by which we can fool ourselves,” he wrote in his 1966 book Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure. “We don some professional or moral costume so as to hide from ourselves our real desires and wants. Then we present to the world a façade of objectivity and rectitude instead of the self-concern we really feel.”
