Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
Contributors: John Nathan (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Marion Boyars
Published: March 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780714530482
Subjects: Fiction anthologies & collections; Modern fiction; Short stories; Fiction; General
First sentence: Deep one night he was trimming his nose that would never walk again into sunlight atop living legs, busily feeling every hair with a Rotex rotary nostril clipper as if to make his nostrils as bare as a monkey's, when suddenly a man, perhaps escaped from the mental ward in the same hospital or perhaps a lunatic who happened to be passing, with a body abnormally small and meagre for a man save only for a face as round as a Dharma's and covered in hair, sat down on the edge of his bed and shouted, foaming,-What in God's name are you?