He doesn’t seem sure of anything, which Yemsiratch found oddly comforting. Doubt wasn’t a very Ethiopian trait. People, generally, knew. They were sure of everything. Everything they did not know, they suspected. Those they suspected, they alienated. Which is probably why the alienated go quickly insane. There is really no room for standing outside in a tightly knit community where everybody considers himself and herself inter-related, interdependent, and a stakeholder in every other person’s business.
