Hypocrisy and Deception/ Leo Tolstoy
The children knew Levin very little, and could not remember when they had seen him, but they experienced in regard to him none of that strange feeling of shyness and hostility which children so often experience towards hypocritical, grown-up people, and for which they are so often and miserably punished. Hypocrisy in anything whatever […]
That Awful Lust/ Ernest Hemingway
He was a boy about sixteen. He came in with no hat on and was very excited and frightened but determined. He was curly haired and well built and his lips were prominent. “What’s the matter with you, son?” Doctor Wilcox asked him. “I want to be castrated,” the boy said. “Why?” Doc Fischer […]
