Part 2, Travels 1971-1986: Chapters 19-23 Summary and Analysis

In chapter nineteen, Crichton goes along with a friend to meet a woman who is often referred to as "A Human Light Show." The woman is powerful and often exudes brilliant colors when she meditates. It is rumored that the woman also tends to fade and change into people of various ages. Naturally Crichton is skeptical but agrees to see the woman. It turns out that all of the rumors were true and Crichton was able to see it with his own eyes.

In chapter twenty, while everyone talks about "they" in a sense of the faceless villains or the ones who know everything or are screwing up the world, no one actually knows who "they" are. Crichton gives a speech at a dinner party about the mysterious "they" and how everyone does...