Two nights later, Stanley lay awake staring up at the star-filled sky. He was too happy to fall asleep.
He knew he had no reason to be happy. He had heard orread somewhere that right before a person freezes to death, he suddenly feels nice and warm. He wondered if perhaps hewas experiencing something like that.
It occurred to him that he couldn‘t remember the last timehe felt happiness. It wasn‘t just being sent to Camp GreenLake that had made his life miserable. Before that he‘d beenunhappy at school, where he had no friends, and bullies likeDerrick Dunne picked on him. No one liked him, and thetruth was, he didn‘t especially like himself.
He liked himself now.
He wondered if he was delirious. - P186