Dirk Gently is a bizarre character who reappears in Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul , which I also recommend. Fahrenheit 451 . In a future society, books are outlawed, but they live on nonetheless, kept alive by a dedicated band of booklovers who have become living books, having each committed a complete book to memory. You can burn a book, but you can't burn it out of people's minds. A booklover's nightmare, redeemed by booklovers.
Brewer assumes the man is insane.
When prot describes the benign conditions on K-Pax, the doctor reads this as proof of prot's fear of this world, and hostility to his parents. But prot also cures the humorless Dr. Brewer. The Postman . A book that did not deserve to have Kevin Costner ruin it. Nuclear war and the disease following it were bad enough, but what was left was nearly destroyed altogether by violent survivalists.