Ce genre de quartier ne lui a pas plaidé; Il l'avait vu un million de fois, dupliqué sur toute la face de la terre. C'était comme celui-ci qu'il avait fui, au début de sa vie, d'utiliser sa sixsse comme méthode pour sortir. Et maintenant, il était revenu. Il ne s'opposait pas au peuple: il les considérait comme piégés ici, les ordinaires, qui, par leur propre faute, devaient rester. Ils ne l'avaient pas inventé; Ils n'aimaient pas ça; Ils l'ont enduré, comme il n'avait pas eu à le faire. En fait, il se sentait coupable, voyant leurs sombres visages, leurs bouches baissées. Bouches dentelées et malheureuses.

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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.)