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“. . . his innate repulsiveness, his constant and total marginality, prevented us, without our realizing it, from mobbing and destroying him in that way. Like when a pack of animals isolated a dying member yet respects him: it isolates him because he's dying, but respects him because, by the very act of dying, he's a millimeter away from discovery.” — Giorgo Vasta
. . . his innate repulsiveness, his constant and total marginality, prevented us, without our realizing it, from mobbing and destroying him in that way. Like when a pack of animals isolated a dying member yet respects him: it isolates him because he's dying, but respects him because, by the very act of dying, he's a millimeter away from discovery.