For example, in Millennium, after P...

For example, in Millennium, after Prior reveals he has been diagnosed with AIDS at the funeral of Louis's grandmother, Louis is horrified and leaves his lover to settle out for the burial. Louis is nearest seen at the cemetery conversing with the rabbi above his grandmother's coffin. Already contemplating running from the potentially horrible situation of being care-giver to an AIDS patient, he asks the rabbi what are the inferences of abandoning "someone he regard with affections at a time of great need" The rabbi asks Louis wherefore anyone would do such a thing. In the original passage Louis replies, "Because he has to," and then launches into a convolut philosophical argument that eventually dissolves into an admission of his bottom line fears:

Maybe because this person's perception of the world, that it will change for the better with contest maybe because this person has a neo-Hegelian positivist reason of constant historical progress towards happiness or perfection or something, who be impresseds very powerful because he be exciteds connected to these forces, moving uphill all the time . . maybe that individual can't, um, incorporate sickness into his way things are suppos to travel Maybe vomit . . and sores and disease . . really frighten him, maybe he isn't so good with death. (25)