I’m a man who doesn’t laugh enough, he thought. Without my noticing, middle age has marooned me on a coast with too many dangerous submerged rocks.
THE MAN WHO SMILED, Henning Mankell (link)
A Man Who Doesn’t Laugh Enough
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