But at my age, with a snootful of English Lit. that made me as savagely demanding as Matthew Arnold in my insistence that the written word exemplify only the highest seriousness and truth, I treated these forlorn offspring of a thousand strangers' lonely and fragile desire with the magisterial, abstract loathing of an ape plucking vermin from his pelt.
"Sophie's Choice: A Novel" - Página 5; de William Styron - Publicado por Random House, 1979; ISBN 0394461096, 9780394461090 - 515 páginas