It is a good idea to keep from going crazy because crazy people get committed again, and can no longer get in their cars and drive across two states to get a beer. Nicole Baker, Gary Gilmore's true love, got committed the first time at 14. The bag surprises Schiller. The wind seems to blow away memory, balance. The sensation of falling is constant.
Control is fugitive.
Insanity is casual. The love-death seems as good a way of hanging on as any other. A friend of the family is trying to sleep one night when she hears Gary, whose visit she has declined, shatter her car with a tire iron. She let it go. It was just one more unhappiness at the bottom of things.