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What is James' prison? Why is he in it? (early signs of institutionalization) James was one of many men whose desk lined the enormous room on the first floor of Shubert and Shubert Accounting and Financial Management. Each desk had a green chain string glass lamp, a cup of sharpened pencils and a folder of sums to keep record. Lattice lines layered top over bottom. The firm frame of numbers and their sums. An iron cell of reason, value could not be argued. James liked that very much. Values and sums were his constant guard; an assurance of right placement. The column to the far right guided the pennies and dimes insignificant numbers cells which were worthless until their accumulation overflowed left into the column left of the decimal in into real numbers. One, tens hundreds and thousands and so on. To James life could be categorized in the same way. Nobody wanted to admit it, but James knew it was true. People were treated according to their value. ...
