At the beginning of the story, Russ moves away from his boring hometown and alcoholic father to go to University and start a new life in Detroit. Russ gets a job, an appartment and falls in love with his Professor's teachings. Russ is so much into his teachings that he even learned German to understand a session. Sooner or later Russ forgets everything about his hometown and his roots. He doesn't care about that and anything else for that matter except the amazing Professor Diekman. Soon enough, Russ realized that he didn't know where he stood and was so much into his books. Before, nothing could destract him. Now, he craved every little sound. He was desperate for human connection. He would even go see the old man next door just to talk or liten to his stories which he had already heard before about his wife and/or his neighbor Henry Ford. The old man had memory loss and was still in love with his wife who had died more than

In conclusion, I think Russ made all the right decisions starting when he left his alcoholic father to start a new and better life to dropping that evil circle. Russell gains a lot of knowlede and wisdom by everything that goes on in the story which will help him in his journey through life. I think he learned the best lessons he could have learned. First, that old age is everyone's destiny and second, that there will always be people out there tidying up the world and are full of themselves.

The old man next door to Russ, Mr. Walsh, one day freaked out because he had lost his car which Russ helped him look all over for it only to find out he had sold it a long time ago. The old man was losing his memery. One night he even accidently shit his pants because he got lost trying to find the tiolet. This happens sometimes to old folks and therefore Russ, respecting old age, helped him clean up.

Everything started making sense to Russ. "I knew that the charges I brought against Diekman in the court of my mind wouldn't hold. Was his john too lavish? Was he to blame for the way Vincenti ate, for Descartes's foolish death, for the absence of any reference to Iron Mountain or lost fathers or shit in the Eleventh Edition? The grievences were trivial but suddenly his walled city closed in on me and I felt entombed and couldn't bear listening to him tidy up the world"(p.32) Russell finally dropped the Diekman circle.

five years ago. The landlady kept giving him a hard time and told him to be quiet

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