The Good Father by Noah Hawley

Author:Noah Hawley
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780385535618
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 2012-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Danny sat back from the computer. He was surprised to find that it was dark out. Had he really been here for more than five hours? He couldn’t describe the feelings he was having. But then he’d never been good at that, turning hurt into words. The hunger he felt for the details of what had happened that day in 1966 unnerved him. It was an unhinged sensation. A moment of terrifying sobriety, where the driver realizes he is drunk and speeding down a crowded highway with his lights off. What scared him was not the recklessness of Whitman’s crimes, the randomness of his victims. It was the recognition of justice. An acknowledgment he felt in parts of him that he wouldn’t even admit existed, that a man who had been so wronged by the world, by his friends and family, could exact revenge. And that that revenge, though terrible, would be justified.

There is a moment for each and every one of us in this life where we discover, often to our great surprise, whether we are wolves or sheep. To be a sheep is to surrender to fear. But there is fear, too, for the wolf. Fear when we realize that the rules of society do not apply to us. Rules are for sheep. And this moment of realization is terrifying in its liberation.

What resonated for Danny was not Whitman’s violence. It was his transgression. He had renounced every convention of civilized life. He had rejected hundreds of years of evolution. By standing atop that tower and leveling his rifle at the world below, Charles Whitman had declared his independence from the society he lived in.

And it was this idea that made Daniel Allen feel faint.

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