they do n't know that the reverend john groggins has sometimes awakened in the midnight hour with horrible dreams still vivid beneath his bald pate - dreams in which he preaches to the little misses ' thursday night bible class naked and slick , and they ready for him ; or that floyd tibbits wandered around for all of that friday in a sickly daze , feeling the sun lie hatefully against his strangely pallid skin , remembering going to ann nor ? ton only cloudily , not remembering his attack on ben mears at all , but remembering the cool gratitude with which he greeted the setting of the sun , the gratitude and the anticipation of something great and good ; or that hal griffen has six hot books hidden in the back of his closet which he masturbates over at every opportunity ; or that george middler has a suitcase full of silk slips and bras and panties and stockings and that he sometimes pulls down the shades of his apartment over the hardware store and locks the door with both the bolt and the chain and then stands in front of the full-length mirror in the bedroom until his breath comes in short stitches and then he falls to his knees and masturbates ; or that carl foreman tried to scream and was unable when mike ryerson began to tremble coldly on the metal worktable in the room beneath the mortuary and the scream was as sightless and soundless as glass in his throat when mike opened his eyes and sat up ; or that ten-month-old randy mcdougall did not even struggle when danny glick slipped through his bedroom window and plucked the baby from his crib and sank his teeth into a neck still bruised from a mother 's blows .