And though he presented only his profile to her, enough of his face was visible that Ruha could see his eyepatch and the pole, golden bar that protruded from beneath his keffiyeh.
" Life inside and outside novels " is crowded with wrong men and women, " one misleading character after another, " whose wooden legs, eyepatches, crutches, scars, " beards and spectacles " may or may not be part of a disguise.