![]() ![]() ![]() For Alicia, just 20 years old, mathematics is both a defense and a curse, something she’s given up-not easily, for, as she tells Dr. Is Bobby’s life also a hallucination, a dream? Perhaps, for Alicia suggests that Bobby may still be lying in a coma following an auto-racing accident in Italy. What else to call it? But it’s an illness associated with an organ that might as well belong to Martians for all our understanding of it.” Still, the seemingly very real friend she calls the Thalidomide Kid turns out to be one of many hallucinations that show up to keep Alicia company-an interesting turn, since it seems the Kid also visited her brother, Bobby, in the predecessor novel. ![]() In this series of dialogues with a psychiatrist, she reveals herself to be thoroughly self-aware: “Mental illness is an illness. A companion to McCarthy’s The Passenger that both supplements and subverts it.Īlice Western-now known as Alicia, her birth certificate changed via her brother’s counterfeiter pal, John Sheddan-is a brilliant mathematician, at work on a doctorate even as a teenager. ![]()
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