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Chapter 2, Grid 2
Mother Hive Brain Unveiled
For only after men had tried their hand for thousands of years at merely
objective philosophizing did they discover that, among the many things
that make the world so puzzling and precarious, the first and foremost
is that, however immeasurable and massive it may be, its existence
hangs nevertheless on a single thread; and this thread is the actual consciousness
in which it exists.
— Arthur Schopenhauer,
The World as Will and Representation, Vol. II
[The following is extracted from Mental Status Examination of the
patient immediately prior to transfer to D Building, performed by
Bernard Spitzer, M.D., Ph.D.]
Patient is a six-foot, four-inch tall Caucasian male presenting with
marked agitation and disturbed affect. He attended the interview
dressed indifferently (shirt buttoned unevenly, unmatched socks) and
appears to have drawn zodiac signs on his exposed flesh with a felt tip
pen. According to the observations of his ward staff, the period of his
mood swings has drastically shortened in recent weeks, with an accompanying
intensification of his depersonalizing ideations and delusions
of reference. While he disagrees with the observations of the ward staff,
the patient seemed somewhat pleased that I had scheduled this interview
to review his treatment plan and diagnosis.
Evidence of disorientation as to self, place and time quickly surfaced
in the course of our interview. “Within himself” the patient claims to
possess three distinct ego-identities in “this reality grid,” as well as
several other distinct identities in “associated grids.” (Perhaps the
handwritten communications the patient has been handing the nursing
staff at the medication window are addressed to identities in these
“other reality grids”?) When I sought to establish with which hallucina-
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