He has seen, as Guattari says, many psychiatric clinics in the world. So he can make the comparison. So he finds that in Leros "it is not worse than elsewhere". He even gives a shocking image, so familiar in all the psychiatric clinics in the world. "Hands that reach out, smiles that are drawn, sometimes even bursts of childlike joy, ground us in a reality from which, timidly, we would very much like to avert our gaze: of course they are human beings, of course they are not wild animals!
And, strangely enough, the emotion becomes unbearable at the moment when, in a bed, in the semi-darkness, on the neck of a body covered with a blanket, we discern a cat purring, as if she knows better than anyone the truth of human warmth."