He began pacing next to the railing. I am a professor of illogic engaged in the calculus of people. I am the gray man existing without good or evil. He kept silent for a moment as he walked back and forth. I am just out of a mental institution where I spent over two years in yoga solitude.
Some people call it therapy.
His pacing grew faster, more frantic. Kelly explained that before a judge committed him, he danced for the flower children on the streets of Boulder. But they only looked at him strangely. They had all been created together, he said, and couldn't understand a dance of loneliness. At some point in his travels Kelly found his way to the Four Corners country, a place I had never seen.