إن تعاسة الإنسان تنتج من كونه لا يريد أن يقبع ساكناً في غرفته هناك حيث يجب أن يكون.

“There were no mad flashings of the eye, no lunatic grimace passed over his face…”

“He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hard…”

“He was a master in the art of spreading boredom and playing the clumsy fool-tho…”

“She had a face socharming that visitors of all ages and both sexes would stand …”