Naomi’s Reviews > Kallocain > Status Update

“‘…I’m a cog. I’m a creature from which they have taken the life…And yet: right now I know that it isn’t true. It’s the Kallocain that’s making me full of irrational hope, of course–everything is becoming light and clear and calm. At least I’m alive – in spite of all they have from me – and right now I know that what I am is on the way somewhere….’”

“All this is just game-playing. For I’ve always been able to pin my hopes on him before. I straightened up, saw Karrek smile sardonically, and I heard him say with honey-soft politeness: ‘It may perhaps interest you to know that it is you who will administer the Kallocain injection in the case of Edo Rissen. You are next in line, as the regular injector is presently himself being injected….’”

“Everything she had said was said from within myself. I was sick, unstrung to the roots of my being, because she had held herself like a mirror in front of me. I had not suspected that she, with her tight lips, with her silence and her penetrating eyes, was made of the same weak timber as I. How could I threaten her, how could I force her, when that was how it was?”

“‘How can it be?’ she whispered in anguish. ‘How can it be, that we search for something that doesn’t exist? How can it be that we are sick unto death, when we’re completely well, when all is as it should be. . .’”

Leo’s wife, Linda, is unhappy but she is also confused as to why she is unhappy because everything in her life is “as it should be” but she’s still not happy. She worries about her children how they are not “home age” anymore and she misses them and she loves Leo but she’s also confused. Cause she “should be happy”

So he gave Linda a shot of Kallocain while she was sleeping (well first he tied her up and before that he covered up the “police ears & police eyes” aka cameras in their bedroom) and she said she would’ve killed him dayyys ago if she wasn’t so scared. She also said basically she had so many things she wanted to do or say but never did.

⭐️“‘Terror?' 'Yes, terror. We've been moving towards ever stricter surveillance - and it hasn't made us safer, as we hoped, but more fearful. Along with our terror grows our impulse to strike out around us. Isn't it so: when a wild animal feels threatened and sees no way to flee and escape, it goes on the attack. When terror creeps over us, there is nothing left to do but to strike the first blow.…’”