Flora and Ulysses Chapter 58 Summary

Nothing Personal

  • Ulysses doesn't know where Phyllis is taking him, but he knows it's dark. 
  • Well, he is inside a sack to be fair. His poem is in there too, which he's not sure is a good thing or a bad thing. 
  • It can only mean one thing. Either: (1) Phyllis is mocking him, (2) she wants him to have some pretty language to read before he dies, or (3) she's just covering her tracks so there's no trace of him when she returns. 
  • Our money's on the last one. Ulysses tells himself that worse things have happened to him, but he starts to get nervous. 
  • Phyllis tells him it's not personal, that this actually has nothing to do with him. 
  • She just wants her daughter to have a normal life, and walking around talking to a flying squirrel who can type is not going to give her that. 
  • Ulysses doesn't get what's so special about normal anyway. 
  • He knows it doesn't matter what he thinks, though, especially when Phyllis stops walking and announces that it's time. Gulp.