Foreigner: (10th Anniversary Edition)
“Barb, in his mind and in his feelings, went off and on like a light switch … No, off was damned easy. On took a fantasy he flogged to desperate, dutiful life whenever the atevi world closed in on him or whenever he knew he was going back to Mospheira for a few days’ vacation.
‘Seeing Barb’ was an excuse to keep his family at arms’ length.
‘Seeing Barb,’ was the lie he told his mother when he just wanted to get up on to the mountain where his family wasn’t, and Barb wasn’t.
That was the truth, t...hough he’d never added it up.
That was his life, his whole humanly-speaking emotional life, such of it as wasn’t connected to his work, to Tabini and to the intellectual exercise of equivalencies, numbers, and tank baffles. He’d known, once, what to do and feel around human beings.
Only lately—he just wanted the mountain and the wind and the snow.
Lately he’d been happy with atevi, and successful with Tabini, and all of it had been a house of cards. The things he’d thought had made him the most successful of the paidhiin had blinded him to all the dangers.MoreLess
‘Seeing Barb’ was an excuse to keep his family at arms’ length.
‘Seeing Barb,’ was the lie he told his mother when he just wanted to get up on to the mountain where his family wasn’t, and Barb wasn’t.
That was the truth, t...hough he’d never added it up.
That was his life, his whole humanly-speaking emotional life, such of it as wasn’t connected to his work, to Tabini and to the intellectual exercise of equivalencies, numbers, and tank baffles. He’d known, once, what to do and feel around human beings.
Only lately—he just wanted the mountain and the wind and the snow.
Lately he’d been happy with atevi, and successful with Tabini, and all of it had been a house of cards. The things he’d thought had made him the most successful of the paidhiin had blinded him to all the dangers.MoreLess
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