Oct 1 - Oct 31, pp. 168 - 186 Summary

October begins on an even worse note. Adrian wakes to find his face covered in spots. Ashamed, he tries to avoid Pandora. She assures him it won't affect their love, yet her kisses lack their usual passion. As always in difficult times, Adrian looks to literature for comfort and support, and takes out of the library Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom by Andrei D. Sakharov. He soon abandons this work as boring, and turns to Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. This book inspires Adrian to go on a mountain survival trip and to persuade Pandora to come too. He feels that if he can get Pandora to somewhere high, they can regain their old passion. The social services take Bert into the old folks home, where Adrian and Pandora are reluctant to visit him since...