Summary

Mark begins to come back to himself through feelings more than thoughts and he feels sometimes like a whale with each breath being an earthquake. Storms rage inside him and the monster inside slowly comes to the realization that he is a man with body parts that he inventories all the time. Finally words and notions come and he realizes that he is mending.

In 'Some days his rage was so bad that even lying still infuriated him', Mark's therapists have asked Karin to leave because she is in the way so she stays at Mark's house to fill the time. Karin spends her days drinking wine and watching old movies on TV and even dials the old phone number of Robert Karsh, a high school boyfriend, but she does...