- Black almost dies—over two hundred eighty stitches are holding him together, and he's handcuffed and shackled to the infirmary's bed—but he hears a clear voice saying, "If it was not for the grace of God you would not be here."
- White says that this sounds like the story of how the other guy became "a crippled one-eyed half-wit" so Black could find God. Black concedes that might be one way of looking at it, if only to keep White interested and get him in the "trick bag," as he says.
- White says Black could've just not listened to the voice, but Black says that God wouldn't have spoken to someone who wasn't going to listen to him.
- Black says White's probably thinking that Black thinks he (White) is in a low enough place to be susceptible to the same sort of conversion, but only God can know that and Black knows he (Black) is not God.
- The Professor wants to know why Black and other believers can't accept that some people just don't believe in God. Black says he does accept that fact, but he also can't sit back and watch people commit suicide or harm themselves and not do anything. The Bible says to help.