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• he had rarely done the expected thing.
• someone whose eyes could drill your spine with their knowledge.
• He had lived in Europe for thirty years—he had taken possession of it, inhaled it, appropriated it. It had been the great adventure of his life.
• He lived in a world of second thoughts,
• He believed that almost every sentence could stand a little work, and could hardly bear to reread his earlier things except with a pen in his hand, making changes as he went.