← His moroseness might have alienated me if I had regarded myself as a nobody. 🔊
← When, in the autumn of '96, he brought out (at his own expense, this time) a third book, his last book, nobody said a word for or against it. 🔊
← Anybody who knew him would have recognized the portrait at a glance, but nobody who didn't know him would have recognized the portrait from its bystander: it "existed" so much more than he; it was bound to. 🔊