Roger Ames finds himself in a world so foreign that he must be conditioned—he must be reeducated—just to live in it. For Roger, time takes a holiday. His old perceptions are turned upside down, downside up, and sideways.
Roger Ames is the alien.
He does not fit in. He is the outsider. Roger is like Alice at the Mad Hatter's tea party, where up is down and down is up.