... handle it. Billy imagines he is "turning to steam painlessly" (48), and floating up among the treetops. In the same episode, Billy imagines transporting himself to a ballroom floor, and wearing warm, white sweat-socks. He insists that this is not Billy's time-travel, rather "the craziness of a dying young man with his shoes full of snow" (49). Later in Billy's life, he believes he ... , given the emotion involved with bringing back all the memories of the event, he had to approach it in a different, more eccentric and random, way. He says in the first chapter, which is solely about his t...

• Word Count: 2002
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School