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The Psych Doctor
The sick man is one of many victims of a deadly flu epidemic. He and the narrator meet when the sick man stumbles on the camp the narrator shares with Margo; the sick man is angry, raving at his bad luck and physical discomfort, though the narrator reflects that he was probably “once a good man.” The sick man eventually dies, leaving Margo and the narrator to worry that he has contaminated them. His identity as a “barely surviving humanist in an inhuman world” continues to haunt the narrator after the sick man’s death.
The Sick Man Quotes in Things We Didn’t See Coming
The Things We Didn’t See Coming quotes below are all either spoken by The Sick Man or refer to The Sick Man . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Sometimes when she's not here I try to dissolve into this one feeling of missing her and it pushes away everything else—this guy going through our stuff, the virus. It's not uncomfortable missing her, actually, and with him down there leering at me with his glazed glassy eyes and bloody mouth and nose, concentrating on her and our future is the only way to believe this will pass. It's like wanting her to be here makes me forget she's not.
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The Sick Man Quotes in Things We Didn’t See Coming
The Things We Didn’t See Coming quotes below are all either spoken by The Sick Man or refer to The Sick Man . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Cake Walk
Quotes
Sometimes when she's not here I try to dissolve into this one feeling of missing her and it pushes away everything else—this guy going through our stuff, the virus. It's not uncomfortable missing her, actually, and with him down there leering at me with his glazed glassy eyes and bloody mouth and nose, concentrating on her and our future is the only way to believe this will pass. It's like wanting her to be here makes me forget she's not.
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