, a swaggering, boisterous redhead, arrives as a transfer from the Pendleton Work Farm. He shocks Bromden with his ability to produce real laughter. He sidesteps the attempts of the daytime to herd him into the admission routine of a shower, an injection, and a rectal thermometer. He introduces himself as a gambling man and asks to see the bull goose loony, because he plans to take that place for himself. The Acutes enjoy themselves by playing along. He even introduces himself to the Chronics and shakes hands with them. Bromden is afraid that McMurphy sees through his deaf-and-dumb charade.

Nurse Ratched runs her ward on a strict, unchanging schedule. Bromden describes it as if every minute were

During the meeting, the patients tear into Harding's sexual problems. Afterwards, they are embarrassed, as always, at their viciousness. McMurphy tells Harding that the meeting was a "pecking party." The men acted like a bunch of chickens pecking at another chicken's wound. He warns them that every chicken gets his turn, so a pecking party can wipe out the whole flock. When McMurphy points out that Nurse Ratched pecks first, Harding becomes defensive and states that Ratched's procedure is supposed to therapeutic. McMurphy replies that she is merely a ball-cutter.

Brumin believes that big nurs ecan set the clock to any speed. Sometimes everything is painfully fast and sometimes just as slow. The only escape is the fog where time doesn't exist. The fog is less frequently available with mcmurphy around. Bromden observes him play cards with the other patients with a con-man's keen skill. He wins hundreds of cigarettes and then allows his opponents to win them back. That night, McMurphy whispers that he knows Bromden isn't really deaf. Bromden has a nightmare that the hospital is a mechanical slaughterhouse. The staff hangs OLD balistic on a meat hook and slashes him open. Ash and rust pour out of the wound. MR. Turkle wakes him from the nightmare before helping two aides carry out Blastic's body.

At the next meeting, McMurphy proposes another vote regarding the TV, with the support of some of the other patients. It is the first day of the World Series. Bromden observes the hands go up, as McMurphy drags all twenty Acutes out of the protective fog. Ratched declares the proposal defeated, however, because none of the twenty Chronics raised their hands. McMurphy needs a majority. Ratched declares the meeting and the vote both closed just before McMurphy finally persuades Bromden to raise his hand. Ratched explains that it is too late, because the vote is closed. During the afternoon cleaning chores, McMurphy declares that it's time for the game. When he turns on the TV, Ratched furiously cuts the power to it, but McMurphy doesn't budge from the armchair. The Acutes follow suit and sit in front of the blank TV. She screams and rants at them for breaking the schedule, and McMurphy wins his bet.

During the Group Meeting, Nurse Ratched re-opens the topic of 's difficult relationship with his wife. When McMurphy makes a few jokes to lighten the mood, Ratched retaliates by reading his file aloud, focusing on his arrest for statutory rape. McMurphy regales the group with stories about the sexual appetite of his fifteen-year-old lover. Meanwhile, he brushes off Ratched's attempt to ruffle him by deliberately mispronouncing his name. Even enjoys McMurphy's humorous rebellion against Ratched. Still, McMurphy is disconcerted that the patients and the doctor can smile, but not laugh.

?Bromden sees modern society as a mechanical, oppressive force, and he views the h

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