In a strange room

I read somewhere that said people read for 2 reasons, one being that they liked reading and the other reason being that they could tell people they read. So here I am shamelessly fulfilling the 2nd reason,hah.

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"He watches, but what he sees isn't real to him. Too much travelling and placelessness have put him outside everything, so that history happens elsewhere, it has nothing to do with him. He is only passing through. Maybe horror is felt more easily from home. This is both a redemption and an affliction, he doesn't carry any abstract moral burdens but their absence is represented for him by the succession of flyblown and featureless rooms he sleeps in, night after night, always changing but somehow always the same room."

- In a strange room by Damon Galgut

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