Again, it occurs several years after the previous part. The third and concluding part of the novel is "Morality". We learn at the end of this section that Gerry has gained Lone's telepathic abilities, making his psychiatrist forget what he had told him. He killed Alicia, and the group returned to living alone in the woods. Soon, however, Gerry learned that domestication and normalization had weakened their gestalt. They were educated and fed under her care. They were soon adopted by Evelyn's sister, Alicia. Lone was killed in the woods, and Gerry subsequently became the leader of the gestalt. We learn that Gerry was taken in by Lone after being close to death. Gerry is shown having a psychotherapy session, trying to piece his memory back together. The character Gerry Thompson is introduced, a mentally disturbed and abused street urchin. The second part of the novel is "Baby is Three", which occurs several years after The Fabulous Idiot. Together, Lone, Janie, the twins and Baby form what will be later called the homo gestalt. Baby helps Lone build an anti-gravity generator. Baby has a phenomenal mental capacity and thinks almost like a computer. The farmer's wife dies after giving birth to a "Mongoloid" baby, whom Lone takes. Lone is soon joined by Janie, a child with a telekinetic gift, and the twins Bonnie and Beanie, who cannot speak but possess the ability to teleport. He is eventually adopted by a poor farmer, but Lone leves after he learns that the farmer's wife is expecting a baby. He encounters a young lady, Evelyn the first person he has mentally and physically connected with. In the beginning, we are introduced to the world of Lone, reffered to as the "Idiot", a young adolescent male with a telepathic ability who lives on the street. The first part of the novel, "The Fabulous Idiot" narrates the birth of the gestalt. Yet, once they are mysteriously drawn together, this collection of misfits becomes something very, very different from the rest of humanity. He also suffers from significant memory loss.Īn idiot boy, a runaway girl, a severely retarded baby and twin girls with a vocabulary of two words between them. He appears to be intermittently schizophrenic: Not only does the novel end in schizoid babble (which recurs at various points in the text), he has memories of a stay in a mental hospital, and his perception of the "changes in reality" sometimes differs from that of the other characters. The story's protagonist is a nameless drifter, nicknamed "Kid" (also referred to as "the Kid", "Kidd", and often just "kid"), who wears only one sandal, shoe, or boot. It is their reactions to (and dealings with) the strange happenings and isolation in the city that are the focus of the novel, rather than the happenings themselves. The few people left in Bellona struggle with survival, boredom, and each other. Gangs roam the nighttime streets, their members hidden within holographic projections of gigantic insects or mythological creatures. Buildings burn for days, but are never consumed, while others burn and later show no signs of damage. Street signs and landmarks shift constantly, while time appears to contract and dilate. One day a red sun swollen to hundreds of times the size it ordinarily appears rises to terrify the populace, then sets-and the same featureless cloud cover returns, with no hint that it was ever otherwise. Whatever has befallen Bellona prevents all radio and television signals, even phone messages, from entering or leaving the city-and may have created a rift in space-time itself: One night the perpetual cloud cover parts to reveal two moons in the darkness.
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