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I think by 'said all their names three times' he's trying to give his old friends a sense of reality. 'They were real, these are their names.' Like they once were but are no longer, he's trying to convince himself that they're still with him.
I think by 'said all their names three times' he's trying to give his old friends a sense of reality. 'They were real, these are their names.' Like they once were but are no longer, he's trying to convince himself that they're still with him.