The few surviving photographs of Childe certainly confirm that he was no beauty-he was skinny and chinless, with squinting eyes behind owlish spectacles, and a mustache that looked as if it might at any moment stir to life and crawl away-but whatever unkind things people might say about the outside of his head, the inside was a place of golden splendor.
( Bill Bryson )
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