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"This used to be a place," I told him, "where meaningful work was done. Here, a citizen was separated from his story. That was my job. Of the two, it was the story that was kept, while the person was disposed of." (410)
In an ironic twist, the Interrogator is confessor to Impostor Ga. He's got a lot of existential angst brought on by a change in his professional life—and a change in his outlook on himself and the world around him. The Interrogator realizes that the story he'd been telling about himself—that he was preserving lives, not taking them—just isn't true. And especially so in this case, when he's about to lose both Ga and his story. It's a blow to his ego that he won't be able to survive.