The figure of Policeman Fox is a better throw at reassuring substantiation, with his "massive rearing of wide
strengthy flesh, his domination and his unimpeachable reality" (180), but unfortunately for the narrator's desire for homecoming in his inherited world, Fox's reliability is compromised when he swaps the head on his shoulders for Divney's, and also by Fox leading him into Old Mathers' house, whose distressing distortions the uber-Policeman treats as entirely normal.