“The only actors who can really do justice to their parts are the ones who don't know what they are.”

—  Gene Wolfe

"Kevin Malone", New Terrors (1980), ed. Ramsey Campbell, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Endangered Species (1989), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
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