Togusa sits back in his chair and ponders for a few more moments. "Holden's declaration of his pretense in the book was just a way for his exterior to match up with his perceived interior. A fantasy where he could be as unable to affect his surroundings as he perceived himself to be." A little chiding with Togusa's tone there, because he completely doesn't believe that Holden was as powerless as he believed himself to be.

"So does The Laughing Man feel powerless to act on his own? And can only act through intermediaries? It's a good idea." Togusa is slipping into that same trap, he almost wants to praise this guy. "And in a world like that, it would make it harder to physically find him."