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256 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1985
He droned on, completely -- and what was worse, unconciously -- absorbed in himself, and suddenly I realized what hell meant, not only to be a killer, but a bore. You think nothing of taking life, but your own existence fascinates you, and that's the imbalance that we mean by evil...This neat, dull man. crouched in a kind of mass over his own hands, that freaked me.
Once your youth has raced away from you, you can see it better when you look back, closing your eyes at night; I still smell the warm summer chestnut leaves in the parks, the hot dust of the pavements on my beat, and the fumes of traffic halted at the top of Sloane Street or Hyde Park