Recombination of Narrative

In Book II, the narrative recombines itself into a single consistent story-line. At the same time, the events cause Elvis to feel almost schizophrenic. "Elvis was silent. He stared out of the window, but kept seeing the heads in the iced cooler. He felt strange, like there were two parts of him, each watching the other, each each unsure. He watched from another place as his hands trembled and his left eye twitched uncontrollably" (242). The division of the self coupled with the unification of the plot line seems to be an emphasis of the present, and how one interacts with the so-called "here and now." Elvis is stuck feeling like he's watching himself, and is somehow somewhere other than where he is, which confronts the issue of time and space, but relative to the notion of identity. What those "two parts" Elvis describes are undefined, but I can't help but see the division of self as an issue of the past, which has made him who he is, in direct conflict with the events of the present.