Burt Dawes is becoming more and more insane. He purchaces two different large-caliber guns, a pistol and a rifle, for whatever reason (why did you do that, George? shutup, Fred) and then goes on with his daily life, working at a laundro-mat and providing for his wife, Mary. Because the 784 highway extension is going through both his home and his business, his insanity makes him go to a gangster-type guy to see if he can purchase some dynamite so he can blow up road machinery and the road itself. The ganster, Salvitore Magliore, says he will not sell the dynamite due to his belief that Bart is a total psychopath (which he is), so Bart makes his way home disappointed. When he gets back to work, he finds that the managers decided to move the laundromat to a shut-down plant, but for some reason, Bart decides to resign despite the very possible raise he would have gotten had he stayed. His wife then leaves him, and Bart becomes very depressed and drinks a lot, but then, while he is out driving passed the slowly-progressing extension, he picks up a college-age hitchhiking girl, that somehow teaches him his life isn't so bad. His head finally clear, he calls his wife to lunch so they can talk. just before he goes back out to talk to her, however, Fred comes back to talk to him occasionally.
This book is getting more interesting, and I'm curious to see just how the rest of it plays out. Will he shoot people? Will he blow anything up? How crazy does he get?
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