FOURThe Golden Ratio
Narrated by Seidzade
The investigator with the round face and noble shock of grey hair continued to behave like a man very interested in resolving the situation in a way that would please everyone. After several hours of vain attempts to extract the answers he wanted from me, this benevolent attitude could not possibly be sincere. But I caught myself thinking that it was precisely his sympathetic tone that was making it harder and harder for me not to give him the confessions that he was after. It would have been better if he hadn’t concealed his perfectly justified irritation — that would have simplified the situation greatly; but this way it looked as if he was doing everything within his power to help, while I was obtusely resisting, insisting on petty details tha
