SEBASTIAN JUNGER
A Death in Belmont
Fourth Estate
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First published in the UK by Fourth Estate 2006
Originally published by W. W. Norton in the United States 2006
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FOR MY MOTHER, ELLEN SINCLAIR JUNGER
And they said to the Prophet, “How may we stop our ears to the rant of the fool and yet show him charity?”
And he answered, “You show yourselves charity by opening wide your ears to him. The fool in the midst of his babble shall speak truths which the minds of the wise cannot perceive.”
—unattributed quote pinned to the office
wall of a Massachusetts appellate lawyer
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