Later on, he'll go over what Aleks has been spouting at him for the past few minutes. There's true prophecy in the midst of all that babbling and it's worth sifting through to try and figure out what he's talking about. He'll realize there's more truth in those words than he realizes. The kid knows more than he thinks he knows. But that all comes later. Right now, Cooper has only one way of dealing with the oracle. Predictably, it's the same way he deals with everything else.

He grabs Aleks by his shirt, drags him forward, and slaps him a few times across the face. It's not done too hard. Cooper's strong enough to punch through doors made of solid oak wood when he's of a mind to. He doesn't want to take the poor boy's head right off. "Either speak sense about my future or snap out of it, you crazy freak!"

Yes, because that is a surefire way make the oracle to work properly. It's just like fixing a faulty rabbit-ears TV. You just have to smack it around a few times to get it to work properly.