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390 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1998
Ir mudvi ėmėme minėti tuos gyvūnus, kurių Dievas kažkodėl nesukūrė. Praleido šitiek paukščių, šitiek žvėrių, kurie gyvena žemėje. Pabaigoje Marta pasakė, kad jai labiausiai trūksta to didelio, nerangaus padaro, kuris naktimis tupi kelių sankryžoje. Nepasakė, kaip jis vadinasi. (p. 91)
Taigi dabar priėjo prie lango ir pranešė:
- Pirkau vištų.
- Suprantu, - burbtelėjau.
- Ką veiki? - paklausė įsiteikiamai.
- Dirbu.
Valandėlę tylėjo. Įrašiau failą.
- Daug laiko tam sugaišti. (p. 88)
”Please keep this a secret” he requested. [the married, middle-aged man asking the wherabouts of the girlfriend of his youth, who Leo sees as a monster]
There was no need to say that, thought Leo afterwards. You should never talk about such things. Who would believe it anyway? That you can see something that isn’t there, and that a person may not necessarily be human through and through, that every decision you make is just an illusion. Thank God people have the capacity for disbelief--it is a truly bountiful gift from God....
[and, in a parallel with the just-read Lolly Willowes]
However, he found the women’s lives touching. Sitting opposite him, gazing expectantly at his face, they were like timid creatures, deer, or hares in spring--gentle and shy, and at the same time extremely clever at dodging, escaping and hiding. Sometimes he thought of a woman’s existence as a sort of mask she puts on as soon as she’s born, enabling her to go through life in camouflage, never fuly revealing herself to anyone. He reckoned they didn’t ask tthe questions they ought to ask.