If Ginsberg wants to call himself crazy, Ned hasn't got a problem with that. He knows he has the capacity in him to be more than a little crazy, himself, though he's mostly succeeded at keeping it out of sight, for the time being. At least, if that's Ginsberg's philosophy, and he really sticks to it, maybe he won't leave immediately when he stumbles across any of Ned's less rational thought processes.

Ned's not exactly thrilled with the idea of the war either, that he might get swept up in it at any moment, but his solution is to think about it as little as possible, to take that gnawing fear and unease and shove it into the most out of the way corner of his mind he can.

"You could bake a pie," Ned says, confidently, "I could teach you."