he thought of memory and time and space and floorboards and equations describing time and space and the blackboards and the remembrance of things past and his own two minutes of rage and stupid tony blair and fucking george walker bush and the whole mess of iraq and the invasion of afghanistan , with friendly fire , and socialist ideas , and russians , and throwing things out of windows in levin machills room , in hamish room , now aarons room , once geraldines room , with the weird noises and the man who came to visit her even though she didnt know him .