Internal summary: two different psychiatrist send interns to observe their "brother" they are placed in room next to one another and told that the brother will be next door. apparently they are both men, because they decide, as their supervises planed no doubt, that the other is their supervises brother. the first intern to arrive drilled holes in the wall so that he could tell which room the brother, who was not to be mistaken for a good or kind type, was in. The second intern upon seeing the holes thought they looked like air holes in the top of a shoe box. Both interns were told to use a different method to discern the character of the brother, the first was to use the Rauchian Theory where the person is broken up into types. The second intern, who is a second year intern according to the first intern who says the second years work under Kagen, is to use the Kagenian analysis, in which the psychiatrist uses the patients posture to judge their mental health, and can fix their mental health by fixing their posture. The first intern is told to make notes of every thing that happened, the second is told the only notes they need is their memory, they are both told not to make contact. I think this is a tell of the facilities internal battle between the two theories.
A∴I summary: This story seems to be about a person who by all accounts does not like talking, and when she does talk she tells other peoples stories or lies. She enjoys infuriating and confusing others. During this story there is also a side story going on about a girl the narrator was watching, she did not talk to anyone because she was not suppose to talk to strangers, and this caused the narrator to identify with her on some level because she herself did not talk much. In the girls story she had money and wanted to by a scarf, then she got hungry and wanted food, but later found her money gone, after retracing her steps and still not finding her money she decided it was stolen, the wind blew hard at a stall selling scarfs near by and the girl took the opportunity to steal one. I think it is interesting the narrator mentions when she says a it sounds like I when the name of the story is a therefore I.
People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water summary: there are two families the author talks about, neither of them very endearing neither very eventful, one surviving and almost thriving the other just barely surviving. beside that it is not much of a story as it is a choppily strung together string of events with not much of a plot and not much of an end. The one thing about it that I found interesting was the last implication, that "such desperate things" either do happen today, or the entire tale was a bunch of bologna.
