[ Maybe offerings would come. Maybe the drawings were a kind of offering, themselves, a worship he didn't recognize. ]
No. I think I'd rather be poor than be that Eugenides.
[ He was named for a god, after all. ]
But I don't particularly want to explain that to them, either.
[ It was a conversation he couldn't imagine having, and tactically unwise. Being overestimated could be just as useful as being underestimated. The only completely useless thing was being well and truly seen. ]
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No. I think I'd rather be poor than be that Eugenides.
[ He was named for a god, after all. ]
But I don't particularly want to explain that to them, either.
[ It was a conversation he couldn't imagine having, and tactically unwise. Being overestimated could be just as useful as being underestimated. The only completely useless thing was being well and truly seen. ]