“I’m a man of words.” he said, “And for once I can’t find anything to say.”
A man of words? It seemed a strange identity for Dean Rodgers to assume. If anything, I had thought the head of a college would be a man of truth or a man of knowledge. Didn’t men of words go into politics or advertising? The second part of his declaration made me nervous. Did it mean that we would not be given any substantive new information about Galen’s death?”
from Chapter 2, THE MAN OF WORDS
from Chapter 19, THE UN-GUN
from Chapter 6, DAVE
from Chapter 2, THE MAN OF WORDS
“At some point in my ramblings through the book stalls of New England I found a copy of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Third Edition- Revised). This was the famous DSM-III-R that had been waved, quoted and thumped at Wayne Lo’s criminal trial.
I don’t remember where I was when I found it. Bookshops, to a hardworking book scout, can be like saloons to a man on a bender. After a while all the saloons turn into one big saloon. Nor can I recall exactly when I found it, except that it was a used book by the time it came my way, meaning it had probably been supplanted by DSM-IV.
I do, however, have a clear recollection of what it felt like to discover the book. It was in a box of paperbacks, and the yellow lettering jumped out at me from the blue background of the cover. DSM-III-R! I paused, trying to recall what meaning that designation had for me, and then it all came back in a rush, knocking me from the comfort of my book scouting routine into the painful days of Wayne Lo’s criminal trial. Here it was, the “premier diagnostic instrument,” a big, fat paperback, 600 pages long. It would be my key to the knowledge of the shrinks, and it only cost me $10.
I took it home and put it on my desk, where it sat, untouched, for a year or more, until a process of elimination brought me back to it.”
from Chapter 23, A NARROW MADNESS.
“…He told you he shot at no particular target. Don’t you think the guard shack was a very specific target, since all the college communications went through there?” (Capeless walked to the map of the campus that was tacked up at the back of the courtroom and showed the path Wayne had taken that night, out of his dorm, across that big field to the road that lead back onto the campus.)
He continued in this manner, using his rhetorical questions to contrast Wayne Lo’s actions and statements with Schouten’s hypotheses. Finally he reached this climax.
“You said he felt no criminal responsibility for his acts, but why, when he was finished shooting, DID HE CALL THE POLICE?”
from Chapter 3, THE TIME MACHINE
from Chapter 3, THE TIME MACHINE.
from Chapter 3. THE TIME MACHINE.
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