His skin had less life in it than a husk in a spider's web. Sometimes his lidded eyes closed, and his cigarette shortened.
Was anything under those lids? Remorse, resentment, even indifference? Or was there only nothing?
Nothing often poses in men as wisdom.
-- Ghostwritten: The Holy Mountain by David Mitchell
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Posing in wisdom
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