 Why has Infield attached a lightning rod to his head?
Henry Infield placed the insulated circlet on his head gently. Infield stepped into the main stream of human traffic and tried to adjust to the second change in the air. A young man with black glasses and a radar headset (a photophobe) was unable to keep from being pushed against Infield. A clean-cut young man with mouse-colored hair was moving toward the stubble-chinned, heavy-shouldered man quivering in the center of a web of impervium cables stuck secure to the walls and windows of buildings facing the street, the sidewalk, a mailbox, the lamp post and Infield. The magnetic suction dart dropped away from Infield like a thing that had been alive and now was killed.
 He believes it has cured him of his fear
 He needs it in order to survive the elements  He wants to go back to being an Incomplete  He is conducting an experiment involving electricity  He believes it has cured him of his fear