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The hat was his one public indulgence, the one symbol of his status in West Cove which he permitted himself. It came from a shop in London, where Dr. Box liked to say that there was an extra replica of his head in wood, around which each year a new hat was fitted for the real head thousands of miles away. (When he could not find his stethoscope, or a tongue depressor, he’d said that the heads were mixed up – that the real head was in London and the wooden one I West Cove.)

George Washington Crosby began to hallucinate eight days before he died. From the rented hospital bed, placed in the middle of his living room, he saw insects running in and out of imaginary cracks in the ceiling plaster.