Chapter 7 Chapter 5 St. Matthew's Institute

Interview Note No. 5, Patient ID 3643, Doctor Cannis Crowe. Dr. Crowe: Good afternoon, Victor.Welcome to my office, feeling better? 3643: Much better, thank you doctor. Dr. Crowe: What would you like to drink? 3643: No, thank you. Dr. Crowe: Well, a priest who doesn't drink, that's very new.Do you mind if I have a drink? 3643: I don't mind, you can do whatever you want, doctor. Dr. Crowe: I know you've been in the infirmary for a while. 3643: I hurt myself a week ago. Dr. Crowe: Do you remember how you got hurt? 3643: Remember, doctor.There was a quarrel in the observation room.

Dr. Crowe: Tell me what happened, Victor. 3643: I went there for a test, you suggested. Dr. Crowe: Do you remember the purpose of this test?Victor? 3643: Find out what caused me. Dr. Crowe: Exactly, Victor.You know you have a problem, and there's no question it's an improvement. 3643: I always knew I had a problem, doctor.I should remind you that my presence here is voluntary. Dr. Crowe: This is our next research question.But now please tell me what happened that day? 3643: I went in and took off my clothes. Dr. Crowe: Does this make you uncomfortable? 3643: Yes. Dr. Crowe: This is a medical procedure.You have to take off your clothes.

3643: If you want to ask me, I don't think it's necessary. Dr. Crowe: The technician has to connect the instrument to the reactive parts of your body in order to get the data.You know that this part is generally not easy to reach.So you have to take off your clothes, Victor. 3643: I still don't think it has to be done. Dr. Crowe: Well, please agree with me for now. 3643: If you say so, so be it, doctor. Dr. Crowe: And what happened? 3643: He put electrodes on me. Dr. Crowe: Where is it, Victor? 3643: You know where. Dr. Crowe: No, Victor.I don't know, I want you to tell.

3643: Put it on my thing. Dr. Crowe: Can you be more specific? 3643: Put it on my… penis. Dr. Crowe: Great, Victor.That's it: dildo.Male organs, organs used for sexual intercourse and urination. 3643: For me there is only the second function, doctor. Dr. Crowe: Are you sure, Victor? 3643: Yes. Dr. Crowe: But it wasn't quite like that before, Victor. 3643: The past is over, I have changed. Dr. Crowe: Why? 3643: Because this is God's will. Dr. Crowe: Do you really believe that God is involved in your problems, Victor? 3643: God's will is omnipresent. Dr. Crowe: I am also a priest, Victor.I think God sometimes lets nature do some work.

3643: Nature is a creation of wisdom and has no place in our religion, doctor. Dr. Crowe: Let's go back to the observation room, Victor.Tell me how did you feel after the technician put your equipment on? 3643: His hands are cold. Dr. Crowe: That's all, what else? 3643: Nothing. Dr. Crowe: And when those images came on the screen? 3643: I don't feel anything either. Dr. Crowe: You know, Victor, I have your report, you react to certain images, look at these spiky graph lines. 3643: I feel sick seeing some pictures. Dr. Crowe: Nausea? [The conversation pauses for nearly a minute]

Dr. Crowe: Think about it before you answer me, Victor. 3643: Sex scenes make me sick. Dr. Crowe: Is there a special picture, Victor? 3643: All of them. Dr. Crowe: Do you know why these images bother you? 3643: Because those images are blasphemy. Dr. Crowe: Even so, when you see certain images, your penis becomes particularly enlarged. 3643: Impossible. Dr. Crowe: In layman's terms, it makes you hard. 3643: Such language blasphemes God and the dignity of his priesthood.I must…… Dr. Crowe: What do you have to do?Victor? 3643: Nothing. Dr. Crowe: Are you violent, Victor?

3643: No, doctor. Dr. Crowe: Did you become violent that day? 3643: When? Dr. Crowe: You're right. Forgive my inaccuracy.Can you tell me about the day you hit my psychiatrist on the head and hit the control panel?Are you violent? 3643: That man seduced me.God said "if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away". Dr. Crowe: Matthew 18:9. 3643: Exactly. Dr. Crowe: What about that eye?Give it a lot of pain? 3643: I don't understand what you're saying. Dr. Crowe: That man's name is Robert.He has a wife and a daughter.You took him to the hospital.You broke his nose and knocked out 7 of his teeth.Very serious concussion.Thank God, security arrived just in time to drag you away.

3643: Maybe I'm a little violent. Dr. Crowe: Do you think you're going to be violent now?If your hands weren't tied to a chair? 3643: If you want to know, we can try, doctor. Dr. Crowe: I think it's time for us to stop this conversation, Victor.