This book also describes the process of going to the bathroom, which you can imagine is incredibly painstaking. In the second chapter, Tod’s passenger examines the way people live this horrid life. “Never watching where they are going, the people move through something prearranged, armed with lies.” Life in reverse yields very little control. Nobody knows where they’re going or what will happen next. One of the few things the passenger does know is that Tod will have another day’s work as a doctor. “Two go in. But only one comes out. Oh, the poor mothers, you can see how they feel during the long goodbye to babies.” Giving birth is never taken lightly, but would ultimately yield more pain if the baby went in instead of out. Doctors being highly trustworthy in our lives is completely flipped in a backwards world. They pay you to hurt you, which is not a world we would want to live in.
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