Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

“As a teacher, Tengo pounded into his students' heads how voraciously mathematic…”

“I’m dying of thirst but lack the strength to even drink water anymore.”

“Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier o…”

“Somehow the world survived the Nazis, the atomic bomb, and modern music”