the enforcer-researcher's illness had progressed quite severely; it had been calcified in his bones long before he met #536c, and every interaction between the two was mediated by his blindness and deafness. it was as if he moved about the world with a perpetual veil covering his eyes, and the only way he could move about space was to project his inner world upon others. he was blithely unaware of how severe his logorrhea was, and could not see the pitying glances laden with tolerance and a sort of tired, resigned pity.