"Fear seized my stomach like a cramp. I didn't care what I said to him now; it was myself I was worried about. For if Leper was psycho it was the army which had done it to him, and I and all of us were on the brink of the army." (144)
This passage shows Gene coming to terms with exactly what the future holds. He's made the connection that Leper went psycho after joining the army, and that most of his friends at Devon are nearing draft age. Surely, in his mind, his conclusions now are mingling with Finny's philosophies, trying to figure out which to go along with. The war hasn't really hit Devon or the surrounding area, only in newspapers has the destruction been displayed. Also, however, he's seen what the army, not even the war, has done to a friend. Gene is worried that the war is closer than he thinks, and now he fears for himself.
What could the last page in the chapter, when Gene says he doesn't want to hear Leper's story because it wasn' about him, mean?
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