Also previously concealed was the small, Popeye-ish, blue tattoo situated at the top of his right arm, just at the shoulder…A tiny symbol, if one were needed, of all the million circumstances of the other fellow’s life, of that blizzard of details that constitute the confusion of a human biography-a tiny symbol to remind me why our understanding of people must always be at best slightly wrong.
– Phillip Roth - The Human Stain
Also previously concealed was the small, Popeye-ish, blue tattoo situated at the top of his right arm, just at the shoulder…A tiny symbol, if one were needed, of all the million circumstances of the other fellow’s life, of that blizzard of details that constitute the confusion of a human biography-a tiny symbol to remind me why our understanding of people must always be at best slightly wrong.
– Phillip Roth - The Human Stain
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