Chapter 15And that was one of the legends that began to be associated with his name, legends that grew more detailed and elaborate with each passing year, evolving like a myth from personal fact to ritual truth.
In his late forties he looked years older. His hair, thick and unruly as in his youth, was almost entirely white; his face was deeply furrowed and his eyes were deep in their sockets; and the deafness which had seized him the summer after his affair with Charlotte Durbin had ended had gotten a little worse from year to year, so that when he was listening to someone he would tilt his head to the side and stare intently, away He was looking at an enigmatic species he couldn't exactly identify.
This numbness was of a strange nature. Although he sometimes had difficulty understanding
