Penguin no. 106: Now East, Now West by Susan Ertz
― His mind seemed to shy away from new facts like a horse refusing a five-barred gate. Well, he wasn't going to pretend to be anything but what he was, just an average American citizen, and as such he had a deeply rooted belief that the world that moved dimly and somewhat inefficiently about the rim of the American Continent was of only secondary interest and importance anyway. This belief, acquired in early childhood, lay, and had always lain, undisturbed at the bottom of his mind. He was full of [...].
