Chapter 4 Summary

In Chapter 4, Slake wakes up and leaves his hideout. He goes to the bathroom and washes up. He goes to the Grand Central concourse. He likes that people think he is invisible. He watches people pay for coffee. They throw down coins and pay. He takes a coffee and puts lumps of sugar in it. He drinks it. He takes lumps of sugar for later. On a television, he watches a beautiful waterfall. He goes to a newsstand. He sits down at a bench. He picks up little things that have been cast away such as a cough drop in a box, a lady's glove, 4 copies of The Daily News and three copies of The New York Times.

He walks and someone stops him and asks him for a paper. The man grabs one of Slake's papers and gives him money. Slake realizes...