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OOM: Tricks and Worries of the Mind]]
Cain sits in a booth and watches the crowd.
He is thinking, and a large mug of beer sits nearby, untouched. A book also sits nearby, similarly untouched. He is worried, a little, and thinking and trying not to think. So he is here, down in the crowd, and yet, more than ever, not feeling a part of that crowd.
And so he watches, and waits, and thinks.