It’s counterintuitive that someone with a degenerative brain disease should routinely hold conflicting thoughts simultaneously. Apparently, this is exactly what happens here.
Burt easily entertains opposing and disparate thoughts. It has surprised me before.
The other day, after weeks of looking at his birthday balloons and saying how nice it was of each of the two friends who brought them, Burt thought they were 2 women sitting behind me.
He whispered urgently for me to come closer. He was genuinely unsettled.
I noticed that for Burt, the balloons in the living room can be at once both birthday balloons and 2 scary women conspiring.
I untied them and took them out to the compactor room.
this is our life 