由于虚构的声音，尼古拉斯已经成为一个整体。而不是他曾在伯克利的局部人。如果他留在伯克利，他会活着并死去一个偏见的人，从不知道完整性。
(Because of an imaginary voice, Nicholas had become a whole person; rather than the partial person he had been in Berkeley. If he had remained in Berkeley he would have lived and died a partial person, never knowing completeness.)