"The place was queer, so was the music, so were the clothes and the goitres and the skin diseases and the old people."
Did I really just type that word for a school project? I feel like I'm going to get in trouble still even the I refuse to type it again. I almost just wanna look away or find a new topic. The word just makes me feel awkward. Because this book was written in a completely different era, I'm sure the word usage wasn't meant to evoke awkwardness in the reader, but now it does for sure. Authors wouldn't dare use that adjective in todays world. Similarly, most of the people at the Centre wouldn't dare look into the eyes of a savage because that's a whole different world for them. A world unlike anything they'd ever care to know. Funny how, through the ages, a certain degree of ignorance is bliss.
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