Chapters Pitch, Yaw and Roll; Into the Body; A Simple Surgeon; and Tea With Paton Bobby Summary

Carriscant is called on the carpet by Cruz. Cruz is backed up by the alcoholic Wieland, who refers to Carriscant as a "meddling half-breed nigger" (p. 161), again demonstrating the socialized racism of the two older doctors. In response to this brutal personal remark Carriscant loses his temper and throttles the older Weiland. He then departs and muses over his political situation at the hospital—he considers leaving the hospital for a location with more modern ideas. Later, he reviews the airplane with Pantaleon and notes the graceful, strong, and complex construction. Later still he installs huge ice chests at his own home, making a personal morgue capable of holding corpses. He is...