Chapter 7 Summary

Eliot continues reading the book that Ulm sent him until he falls asleep. He is awakened by the Rosewater Foundation phone. The call is from a man who obtained the number from the wall of a phone booth that had a Foundation sticker with the phone number. "There is this big black and yellow sticker in the phone booth. Says, 'Don't kill Yourself. Call the Rosewater Foundation,' and its got your number". Part of Eliot's work seems to be with suicide prevention. The man tells him that he is the government and Eliot tells him to stop wasting time, that there might be someone who is seriously suicidal that can't get through. He ends up inviting the man to visit him.

Eliot keeps records of his clients in what he calls his Doomsday Book. He writes down the names and the purpose...