The scene opens with a flourish of trumpets. It's the beginning of a new chapter in the novel, and it's about to begin. The trumpets begin to play a part in the scene, and the narrator tells us that the trumpets are part of a "flower bouquet" that's been brought to his office. He's not sure what to make of the bouquet, but he's sure that it'll be a good one. The narrator tells the audience that he needs to get Julian West out of the "system" of his life, so that he can "get him out" of the way of the people around him. Julian West, he tells us, is "alive and alive" . He doesn't want to be "the like stupid thing" that Julian West does. He wants to be a part of the world, and he wants to do things his own way. He can't do that, he says, because he'll never be able to let the world know how he does things. He says that he wants the world to know that he is alive, but that he'd rather not let it know how stupid he is. He asks Julian West if he could have kissed him, and Julian West says, "yes" , and then Julian West tells him that the flower in the