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'He'd [Ballard] grown lean and bitter.
Some said mad.
A malign star kept him.'

'The cat looked at him [Ballard] without interest. It seemed to think him not too bright.'

Background on Ballard:

'They say he was never right after his daddy killed hisself. They was just the one boy. The mother had run off, I don't know where to nor who with...He was about nine or ten year old at the time.'

Description of Ballard;

'He is small, unclean, unshaven. He moves in the dry chaff among the dust and slats of sunlight with a constrained truculence. Saxon and Celtic bloods. A child of God much like yourself perhaps.'

That man is best who sees the truth himself;
Good too is he who listens to wise counsel.
But who is neither wise himself nor willing
To ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

-Hesiod

"Conscious of their own ignorance, most people are impressed by anyone who pontificates and says something that is over their heads."

Not even 30 pages in and the bodies are dropping and the mystery mounting. This is gonna be good.