How injured is Joe? How much does it matter?

well. joe is more than injured. he doesnt have arms or legs. he is deaf. he doesnt even have a face. he is beyond injured. he is like incapable of every physical action - he is fed through his stomach. he compares it to being in the womb once again. i dont even really like this question, i think its kind of a hard question to answer, because like i said, he is more than injured. he is half alive, barely alive. he is closest to death than every other human being. so really to him, his body is barely there - he can not truly feel it or move it. he simply just breathes, and his body allows his conscience to go on and continue working. his conscience is all he has left. his conscience and the darkness and loneliness and suffering all around him. he is distant from everyone. so the fact that he is injured like this does matter. its matters to everything. because it keeps him away from everything, from everyone. having him only be drowning in his concious and unconcious self keeps him from even knowing what is real and what is a dream. only when the nurse comes is he once again connected to reality, to people, in a very distant way. but this matters. the fact that he is so lonely, in such darkness, andfilled with such thoughts make this life that he is living closer to death than ever.