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So what happened, Mr. Patel? We're puzzled. Everything was normal and the...?
Then normal sank." p. 353

"I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeast less factuality." P. 344

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

"And I survived because I made it a point of forgetting. My story started on calendar day-July 2nd,1977 and ended on calendar day -February 14th 1978- but in between there was no calendar. I did not count the days or weeks or months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the notion of time."

Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.

And so, in that Greek letter that looks like shake with corrugated Tim roof, in that illusive, rational number with which scientists try to understand the universe, I found refuge. p.35