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“There’s a certain tear-jerking way that some people can go slowly wide-eyed before any entertainment. I watch them at movies and in shows sometimes, and if the action is good, their shoulders will slope and they turn right into open-mouthed children."

“When my grandfather died, we let the roof get a little grey and the two banyans in the backyard took each other in their arms and, weeping, filled with spider webs.”

“The Village is full of people who look quite alien and monstrous and I’m not speaking of hippies only, there are occasional soldiers of that lost battalion led by the man with the pincer, and the Village was dispassionately hostile to me.”