- Narrated by: Later, he'll lose his grip on the difference between waking and sleeping, and enter a land of pain so great he will wonder why God made the world. What he will remember, occasionally, is how he stopped and dropped his briefcase and began to move his hips to the beat of the drums. And he will think, that is why God made the world.
- Charles 'Chuck' Krantz: You got a bright sunbeam in front of you, and you're gonna step right into it, I can tell.
- Charles 'Chuck' Krantz: His life is narrower than the one he once hoped for, but he's made peace with that. He understands that narrowing is the natural order of things.