Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Painting painting

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condemned by the gods to have a boulder pressing down upon his chest; but never mind, he would be English, even if his classmates giggled at his voice and excluded him from their secrets, because these exclusions only increased his determination, and that was when he began to act, to find masks that these fellows would recognize, paleface masks, clown-masks, until he fooled them into thinking he was _okay_, he was _people-like-us_. He fooled them the way a sensitive human being can persuade gorillas to accept him into their family, to fondle and caress and stuff bananas in his mouth.
(After he had settled up the last bill, and the wallet he had once found at a rainbow's end was empty, his father said to him: "See now. You pay your way. I've made a man of you." But what man? That's what fathers never know. Not in advance; not until it's too late.)
One day soon after he started at the school he came down