Status Updates From Novella degli scacchi

this is too addicting, with awareness i told myself to stop reading 'cause it's already late at night

All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.

He did nothing unless specifically told to, never asked a question, did not play with other boys, and undertook no activity that had not been explicitly assigned to him; once Mirko had finished his chores, he sat around listlessly indoors with the vacant look of sheep at pasture, taking not the slightest interest in what went on around him.

But what irritated the good parson most about the awkward boy was his total apathy.

i feel like i messed a bit of the beginning and it’s going to effect my overall rating