because i know as i look around , that this is his true room , his true space . `` your mother mentioned his name , and when i called the paper , some woman named ... riverside , carol riverside , claimed this was his fault . '' lying just beyond those shelves is the childrens services desk . this thing between us is on a track and there 's no getting off it , so you might as well just accept it . most had been coming even longer than he had . 