ABSTRACT
Gerry spoke of severe isolation. He once was engaged in life, significantly more than now, but since his last girlfriend left him two years earlier, he sank more and more into helpless paralysis. Gerry suddenly snapped into life, talking about a book he was writing before his girlfriend broke up the relationship. The author thinks of Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye seeing the adult world as phony. Jesus and the hypocrites, Jesus the true, hypocrites the false. The author begins to feel more on Gerry's side. His plight seems true to the author in some way: the truth that nothing can withstand the truth. A feeling of crying from their hearts touched Gerry's sensors without words. An image of Jesus dying and coming to life comes and the author thinks that is the way life feels and death-life together. Agony dying into joy, elements in life's feeling.
