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But there was also something mephitic about the thing.

Once I’m away from the sight of the other lone Western travelers, each, I imagine, with their own weltschmerz-loaded back story, their own unfulfilled longings

his work comes marked by more than a touch of Manicheanism

in your cloudy eyes there is the same misty defense against apostasy that recalls to me Mason in his stubborn cigarette clouds

What he held in abeyance, what the legal bachelorhood represented, was his grail, his lingering, halfhearted vision of self-realization.