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...ption. One may even relate to this misinterpretation as prejudice. Alan sees Dysart as the rest of the world does, but what he doesn’t seem to notice is how Dysarts' attitudes about his own life are influenced by what he sees in Alan. “Oh primitive world, I say. What instinctual truths were lost with it! And while I sit there, baiting a poor unimaginative woman with the word, that freaky boy tries to conjure the reality! I sit looking at pages of centaurs trampling the soul of argos- and outside my window he is trying to become one, in a Hampshire field!…I watch that women kinitting, night after night- a women I haven’t kissed in years- and he stands in the dark for an hour, sucking the sweat off his God’s hairy cheek! Then in the morning, I put away my books on the cultural shelf, close up the kodachrome snaps of Mount Olympus, touch my reproduction statue of dionysus for luck- and go off to the hospital to treat him for insanity. Do you see?” (Dysart 82) HA HA. And the tides have turned. Dysart is finding himself, a self that he had never known to exist, in a patient who he is treating for insanity. Alan has become his role model. He has showed Dysart a world where one can “undress completely in front of the horse. When he is finished, and obviously quite naked, he throws out his arms and shows himself fully to his...