Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter 17, End of the World, Charlie Parker, Time Bomb Summary

Chapter 17, End of the World, Charlie Parker, Time Bomb Summary

The Chubby Girl gets in bed with the Narrator to stay warm. They talk about the Professor's history of working with the System. The Professor had eventually separated from the System and when he did he stole the Narrator's data files. The Professor had come to realize that shuffling entailed much more beyond simple data encryption. At that time the Chubby Girl remembers the Professor underwent a profound mood alteration. In the discussion the Narrator postulates that the data he had shuffled was in actuality a subtle code that has somehow altered his consciousness; he comes to find that he agrees with Junior's suggestions and decides that he must quickly find the Professor.

Chapter 17, End of the World, Charlie Parker, Time Bomb Analysis

Like much of the rationalization which takes place in the novel the Narrator's deductive process is fairly simplistic and seemingly based on little more than suggestions from relative strangers. The reasons for this rather innocuous decision-making process...
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