`` but you told me you had a brother named- '' `` i repeated a fact , '' he said . the police have gone over the car pretty well and they know a couple of things , things they were able to put together from the evidence . suddenly light burst around him , as if the lord himself had pushed aside the trees to shine his glory down upon him . `` which brings us next to its functional mechanism . i do n't have to think about my response . well , i just had to swallow that . 