Epilogue Summary

The patients are transported to the local hospital. Kilgore wanders around trying to locate the billing office. He is momentarily accosted by another hospital patient who is high on drugs. Kilgore, unaware that the arts festival has been cancelled due to the violence, then leaves the hospital and starts a cross-town trek to deliver his speech. Meanwhile the narrator positions himself to intercept Kilgore. The narrator claims to be unaware of a vicious dog that is stalking him. The dog had originally been a major character in this novel but the narrator had tried to write it out - such a vicious dog, however, is not so easily eliminated for a narrative in which it has once preliminarily appeared. The dog attacks and the narrator avoids the attack.

Kilgore flees from the narrator who chases him down using an automobile. The narrator convinces...