The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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Read between September 11 - November 14, 2019
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She saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.
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the silence of the three of them had made a little kernel of sense in a world of boasting, self-excuse and rhetoric.