It (and we are still referring to the disguise that cloaks the criminal)permits him to return from dusky continents where the sun sets and rises,where the moon connives at murder under the roof of bamboo huts that huddle beside slow-rolling rivers alive with alligators;it allows him to move and act as part of a fragmentary mirage,to hurl his weapon at the verymoment when one of his feet rests upon a beach in the Antipodes and the other is poisedover Mediterranean waters;it grants him in advance the power of oblivion,since sailors aresaid to return from 'far distant shores';and it permits the wearer to look down on land-lubbersas so much plant-life.It soothes the criminal.It enwraps him in folds-the tight-fitting foldsof his jumper and the more ample folds of his trousers.It rocks him to sl... (查看原文)
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