He could almost feel someone probing the past, finding their way slowly toward him, stalking him. At any moment the air could shimmer beside the table and an assassin appear, a gun raised, ready to execute him. It was something Kramer constantly feared. The recurring nightmare had troubled him almost every for the last fifteen years-awaking in his bed in the dark stillness of night to see an assassin leaning leaning over him and announcing his immediate execution for traveling through time.
     A soft voice whispered quietly in his head.
     There is a way out for you, you know.
     Suicide?
     No, another way.

     The reason I chose this passage is because it is the turning point of the book. It is where Kramer( the villian) goes insane. He went back in time to rule over the world so that in the future the world would not be populated by mass cities overrun by starving people choking on greenhouse gasses. It started as a noble quest to save humanity. Then the voices appeared and paranoia set in. Amazed at the simplicity of it all, the poor man was driven mad and his once brilliant mind alight with sizzling neon tubes and yellow electric bulbs, blinked out and he fell into madness.