"It's a sad and beautiful world."

I finally figured out what Black & White & Red All Over really means today. It just hit me and I think it's rather important for some reason. You see, the newspapers represent the pressures and problems of the outside world. Kelton's hatred of them is the desire for total apathy, to be isolated and irresponsible. But apathy is the very cause of the problems of the world. So the more Kelton tries to cut himself off from society, the more the problems that causes hit him from every side. In the food he eats, the car he drives, the people he talks to. And at the end his unwillingness to change turns him into the very thing he so desperately wants to ignore. So by trying to be a rejection of a society, we really become a REFLECTION of society. I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry.

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