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~ become: -merely ‘lunatic:
tragic, -
. acquired |
+ dignity. He hardly. . ‘said
- anything. You could tell it
was an effort to bring himself _
down into the normal world |

he = had sometiow
““énormous

enough just to bother for-

‘ming: words, and you knew

as well he was doubtful that.

' it was worth the effort. He

e

looked at us, one _by’ one,..

piercingly, with a mixture of

contempt.and pity. He had |
‘acquired psychic X-ray.
_ Mision, We felt like primitive
" . animals being examined by a

great, .detached scientific
consciousness that:

‘physical form. For the first
time I truly understood why,
in the old days, when people
went mad, those arouhd

‘them thought the mad one

had ‘been “ .” H.'s
personality had been
swallowed up by a kirid of

“overmind”"—a higher being

who now looked out at us
through pupils that
expanded until they almost

‘filled H.'s eyes.

ACTING NORMAL

“If you go by the book,”
said Dr. MacDonald, “he
shows every symptom of
classical schizophrenia, but
on the other hand he might
be an Awakening Being or
some kind of Buddha, I don’t
think he’s dangerous. Let's
just act normal and sce what
happens.”

“Acting normal” around
H. was of course impossible.
Except for Cormack, we all
found ourselves tiptocing
about when he was nt,
And looking him in the
eye—those supraintelligent,
overviewing ¢ycs—was out

had .
. descended into a temporary

had

Knives and’ forks had. to be
kept away from him lest he:

cut off 'a finger. Reporters—
including one from The New
York : Times—were starting.
to appear, and the last thing’ .
the campaign needed was a
Story. about | how -one..of us’.
really -‘was ‘crazy.,. I ap- .
proached - him. . gingerly, to...
tell him that Doc Thurston.

was on his way up from

Vancouver, that a seaplane
‘would soon arrive, and, that.

we had arranged for a place,
a hospital, for him to go.

AWFUL RAGE

His reponse was to Mare -

up with awful, contemptuous
rage. His ‘anger. seemed to
communicate itself directly
into the environment around.
him. A flock of crows broke
suddenly from the beach,
screeching
tumbling in the air above

"him. A cold blast of wind .
the”
swamp grass around us. 1°
quite |
unlike anything I'd ever felt —

abrpptly flattened
experienced a fear.
before—as though I had,
indced, enraged a, genuine
sorcerer or shaman.

The. seaplane with Doc

Thurston arrived. He and ©

Dr. MacDonald stalked H.

around the decks, trying to’

talk him into accepting
tranquilizers. The pilot stood
around nervously, insisting

“unless you get that guy on |
drugs or tied up, there's ‘no’ |

way I'm putting: him in my

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“seniors, native. - ‘peoples, ethnic
_groups, home owners, tenants and
business people. | .

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to make North Vancouver City an ideal
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