In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.
Charles PortisOne time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing the air, and you flip him over and let him go on his way. The struggle that touches the heart.
Charles PortisBut I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?
Charles Portis