Eric Byrd’s Reviews > The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar > Status Update

“They crowded around him, without knowing what was to be done with him, eager to relieve the unease he aroused in them. They took his joy in things, as groundless as any other man’s, for mysterious and meaningful success in some unknown affairs; they filled his silence with thoughts he never had, and when they bored him and when with helpless civility he hid himself in the next room, they exchanged knowing glances.”