Chapter 13 Summary

Eliot remains in a frozen position for ten minutes, after which he has no memory of the fight with his father. "Something there was in Eliot, though, that watched the clock. Ten minutes before his bus was due at the Saw City Kandy Kitchen, he thawed, arose, pursed his lips, picked some lint from his suit, went out his office door. He had no surface memory of the fight with his father. He step was jaunty, that of a Chaplinesque boulevadier" (Chap. 13, p. 231). He doesn't recognize his friends when he walks out of the office and goes to the firehouse. They recognize that he isn't well. He congratulates his friend on having won an award and is told that that was three years ago. Eliot replies that he has forgotten. He tries unsuccessfully to break a broomstick, then says he feels as if...