I tried to understand his rambling. “I take it you are happy with who you are?”
“I am stable. That in itself is a major accomplishment. I have banished the brute. Do you know how I have accomplished this astounding feat? I think of the child I once was and all the miserable little children swarming around with no hope in their eyes. I am afraid of them, but they keep me sane. Go ahead. Pick up your book and record it. It may come in useful when the lights stop flashing and you are wondering who and what you are.” He seemed to be waiting for a reaction, but I was trying to understand his flow. “I don’t care what you think of me, cause one man’s opinion is as good as another. I could walk out from here in a straight line until I arrive in the closest suffocating camp and by the time I take
