Christopher John Francis Boone

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

"And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn't make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid made when 3 circular rods of equal thickness intersect at right angles.  And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly." (178)