And my question to everybody else is, is this what we want: to let them get away with it, and to sit back and play with our phones, as this darkness falls?
But right now it's kind of a passive-aggressive no I won't, because you can't really say to your boss or teacher, " I won't do my homework, I won't go to class, I won't sit still and be quiet."
The trembling in his voice seemed to show the greatest fear. At times he sat looking at nothing for hours, as if listening to some sound I could not hear.
So he sat, very, very full. He looked out at the world without interest, as if it could never offer him anything more.The dinner had not been expected.