[ Growing up in an academic household — his mother is a writer, and his father a Harvard English professor — he has a much larger vocabulary than one might expect from a high school dropout. But he has to admit to being flummoxed: ]

"Inculpate"? Eh?

[ He shakes his head. ]

What "they" are doing is running around screaming. Any inculpation is going to come later. If there is a later.

[ That memory — that echo — is still very strong, the sensation of somebody breaking the chains of the world, sending it to its destruction. ]