' 'Not a big deal, buddy. Because Duddits may be retarded in some ways, but not in this way; in this way, they are the poor stumbling enfeebled idiots and Duddits is the genius. He stepped back, putting another foot between himself and Kurtz. He tried reading, but the words only went in, nothing happened tothem, they didn’t sing.
The sockets of his eyes were deep divots, as if behind the thin veils of his closed lids the eyeballs had fallen into what was now a hollow bucket. The mileage between the store and the Hole was easy enough to remember: 22. His suitcase had been packed forseventy-two days, waiting beside the door, visas and passport current, and handily stored in an innerpocket. arly to the out-of-staters — but the idea that this man, lost and on his own, had been menaced by one in the night, was keenly horrible.
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