it greatly bothered him that I had such a flunky job, washing cages and sweeping up dogs' hair; and also that I was no longer a college man but trying to keep up on Helmholtz who was a dead number to him; in other words, that I should be of the unformed darkened-out mass. It was often that way with me, that people would feel the world owed me distinctness.
Saul BellowAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: american
- Born: June 10, 1914
- Died: April 5, 2005
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