Summary

In Chapter 26, N took the elevator to the ground floor of the university, feeling disoriented. He saw a group of colleagues and one waved to him. He was startled but managed to wave back. He wandered into an empty lecture hall and dozed off. He was awoken by a woman asking if he could move the whale paperweight so she could sit. The lecture hall was filling up with an audience. A silver-haired man entered and began giving a lecture about the Spanish colonization of the Americas. N realized this was the lecture mentioned by the flyer that read “American Holocaust” (175). Annoyed, N thought that whatever had happened in the missions had nothing to do with him. The professor stopped speaking and asked N, “I take it you think your hands are clean?” (176). He then accused N of making racist comments in the...