Confessions, apologies: why this thirst for abasement? A hush falls. They circle around him like hunters who… — J. M. Coetzee
Confessions, apologies: why this thirst for abasement? A hush falls. They circle around him like hunters who have cornered a strange beast and do not know how to finish it off.
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