Purgatory…
- Campbell's purgatory in New York lasted for fifteen years.
- After the war, he skedaddled out of Germany and landed in Greenwich Village. He was in hiding.
- Dude rented a rat-filled attic apartment overlooking a patch of grass between houses where kids would play hide-and-seek.
- At the end of each play-day, the kids would call out the all-clear to get out of hiding because it was time to go home.
- Nobody called to Campbell to tell him he was free to come out of hiding.