Voss always, necessary, fail understand. wounds wince, especially salt — Patrick White, Voss

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Voss could always, if necessary, fail to understand. But wounds will wince, especially in the salt air. He was smiling and screwing up his eyes at the great theatre of light and water. Some pitied him. Some despised him for his funny appearance of a foreigner. None, he realized with a tremor of anger, was conscious of his strength. Mediocre, animal men never do guess at the power of rock or fire, until the last moment before those elements reduce them to – nothing. This, the palest, the most transparent of words, yet comes closest to being complete.

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