I say, holding the book up for them to see. “This is the guy I saw in the bathroom. It says here he grew up in Berkeley, California. I live on Berkeley Road.” Kevin and David don’t seem thrilled to hear this. Sherri opens her mouth and covers it with her hand. Giggles again. “I’m sorry, man,” Kevin says. “But you hallucinated that. You had to have.” “I never saw him before.” “You could have seen his picture somewhere before. Saw a documentary about him. Something.” “His name is Thomas Phillips,” David says. “His wife’s name is Gloria. His friend, Dick, told him about an Ant Farm simulation based on Gnosticism.” “Amazing,” Sherri says. “What’s amazing?” asks Kevin. “What are you suggesting?” “I don’t know. But how could all these things be accidents?”
