_Why_, I don't know.

Drugs?
It seems to me that while I have slept the world has gone mad.

I have gone mad....

Who are those Councillors under the Atlas?
Why should they try to drug me ?" "To keep you insensible," said the man in yellow.

"To prevent your interference." "But _why_ ?" "Because _you_ are the Atlas, Sire," said the man in yellow.