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: after an orgy of self-inspection he became so persuaded that it was some sort of mirror he'd smashed on the midway that he now smashed his own (by hurling it out the window), not to have to see himself any further. And though since the critical night of the sleeping-capsules the question had largely ceased to torment him, he still had, in his phrase, "a thing" about any sort of glass near his face: he shaved and tied his necktie by feel, and refused to wear lenses to correct his faulty vision.attitude), to see whether the strange new feeling would persist -- an acceptance of himself, as I took it, and of the student condition, based on the refusal to concern himself further with their unacceptability -- and whether unassisted it would have lifted him from his
"How about windows?" I wondered, for we had huge ones all about us.
"They don't bother me somehow," Greene laughed. "Anyway, to wind up my story. . ." I was relieved to think him nearly done, as we had distance yet to travel.
He had not had opportunity, he said (returning to the subject of his post-capsular