Este tipo de vecindario no lo agradeció; Lo había visto un millón de veces, duplicado en toda la faz de la tierra. Había sido de tal como este que había huido, temprano en su vida, para usar su Sixness como un método para salir. Y ahora había regresado. No se oponía a la gente: los vio como atrapados aquí, los Ordinarios, quienes no tenían que permanecer su propio culpa. No lo habían inventado; No les gustó; Lo soportaron, como no había tenido que hacerlo. De hecho, se sintió culpable, viendo sus rostros sombríos, sus bocas rechazadas. Bocas irregulares e infelices.

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(This kind of neighborhood did not please him; he had seen it a million times, duplicated throughout the face of the earth. It had been from such as this that he had fled, early in his life, to use his sixness as a method of getting out. And now he had come back.He did not object to the people: he saw them as trapped here, the ordinaries, who through no fault of their own had to remain. They had not invented it; they did not like it; they endured it, as he had not had to. In fact, he felt guilty, seeing their grim faces, their turned-down mouths. Jagged, unhappy mouths.)