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He’s starting to ask the boy to decide on things...turning point? Preparing boy for when he’s gone?

He’d had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair. The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion...How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. (88-89).”

It just got real. His wife is choosing to kill herself and leave behind narrator and son.