 Support the Monkey! Tell All your Friends and Teachers |
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Support the Monkey! Tell All your Friends and Teachers |
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Without his medication, the Chief sleeps restlessly, enduring a
The Chief envisions the hospital as a tremendous machine that hums like a dam-and we'll see later that a hydroelectric dam played a cruel part in triggering the Chief's illness. Workers with waxen faces grab a Chronic patient, Blastic (whom we saw the orderlies abusing in Scene 4), hang him on a hook that dangles from the ceiling, and scalp him-the bared, opened skull revealing only the rust and ashes of a ruined machine, another of the Combine's errors. As the fog rolls in, the Chief glimpses the public relations man, laced into a woman's corset so tight it bloats his face-like so many in this book, he has denied his true sexuality. From the corset stays dangle what seem at first to be more scalps, but what are actually male genitals, reminders of McMurphy's warning of what the Nurse and the hospital want to do to the patients.
The Chief is comforted by Mr. Turkle, one of the few kindly
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