Lyrics
pronoun (I, Me, You) = Cortnée
no capitals (i, me, you) = everyone else
- = directly related to Cortnée


Goodbye Cruel World
goodbye cruel world
i'm leaving you today
goodbye goodbye
goodbye
goodbye all you people
there's nothing you can say
to make me change my mind
goodbye

Melendy's at home, acknowledging the truth of Pink's words, and having to deal with the consequences of her own protective actions. She becomes very desperate as Pink is making her life hell, scaring the crap out of her with talk about how he's going to feed her through a shredder etc. Rather than have to live with the volatile Mr. Floyd, not knowing whether she'll be talking to her beloved Cortnée or the hated and feared Pink, she takes her own life. This is the final blow to Cortnée's teetering sanity, and he becomes a full blown split personality sufferer, forever after having to battle for mental control over his own body. At the end of this chapter is the first indications that Floyd is preparing to finally move against the Utopians.

Cortnée = 20 (nearly 21); Mel = 23


The Utopians

• Utopians believe that religion corrupts society. They tried to outlaw the practise of Christianity, but the riots were overwhelming. In defiance, citizens gave their towns biblical names, and named their children with names from the Bible. In Cortnée's time, Christianity is allowed and whilst the cities still have biblical names, the biblical naming is dying out.
  
• Capital – Utopus, Cortnée's hometown – Lydda, a Rebel stronghol – Palmyra
  
• Utopianism has been in place since before Cortnée was born, but his parents still remember democracy.
  
• Utopian policy gives women full jurisdiction over domestics (i.e. the house, the children etc, they can also throw their husbands out of the house) but their freedoms are personal, not political. Once a woman is married, she's not allowed to work. If a single woman falls pregnant she has to marry before the child is born, or else the state will take the child away.
  
• A man has to work, the state pretty much dictates what job he'll have. He officially owns everything that his wife and children posses, he has complete control over the family's money. If the state shifts him to a job in a different city, his family has to go with him.
  
• Divorce is a privilege, granted only by a board of senior patrol officers. In such a situation, the woman becomes property of the state, to be married off as they see best.
  
• Homosexuality and any other forms of sexual 'perversion' are outlawed, punishable by death, sex outside of marriage is an offence punished by enforced labour/fines and if the woman falls pregnant they are forced to marry.
  
• In the capital the patrols are unfailing strict, but in the outer cities, they're less so.

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