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    felix sits in his chair, drinks from a bottle of water. felix thinks that the ideal brain is efficient, designed to achieve psychological equilibrium in the most destabilizing conditions. felix thinks that rationalization is a dual process, involving the determination of specific analyses of a situation and the parallel development of multiple points of agreement with said analyses. felix’s brain is ideal, felix thinks. felix’s brain observes its environment, panics. felix’s brain registers ‘panic’ and then processes through infinitesimal white bursts a response to ‘panic’. panic is dripped over with orange acid, panic deforms beneath the sludge of orange acid, panic lets out a dying scream, in infinitesimal white bursts. panic is denatured. the resulting mixture pools, reflects ‘celebrate’, reflects itself reflecting ‘celebrate’, reflects itself reflecting itself reflecting until it constitutes the new reality. felix sees felix’s brain celebrate the new reality. felix celebrates. felix celebrates the new reality. felix leaves his room, exits, escapes. felix stands in the hallway, stares into an empty room.