QUOTE : I couldn't look any more. He wasn't unleashed—he was the most trapped thing on earth, just like Phil, just like anyone who got into the barbed-wire thickets of uncontrolled human desire. Booze, pills, drugs, even the coins the blank-eyed kids spent their days shoving into the machines on the quayside arcades... We were pleasure-seeking apes whose brains took a twist from their satisfactions and never straightened out again. It could happen to anyone. For years I'd let my knowledge of that, my compassion, sour out into hate. Even now I couldn't watch Rowan's dance. I pressed my brow back into the wool of his jumper and closed my eyes.