It struck me then that I was hurting him again. It occurred to me that this could be an even deeper injury than what I had done before. I would have to back our of it, I would have to disown it. Could it be that he might even be right? Had I really and definitely and knowingly done it to him after all? I couldn't remember, I couldn't think. However it was, it was worse for him to know it. I had to take it back. But not here.
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I chose this paragraph because it demonstrates a kind of confrontation that we all have to deal with sometime in our lives. It is like if you have done something that is on the borderline of being bad, and you finally convince yourself you're not guilty, and someone rats you out. You probably could have lived with the deed driving you crazy all your life, but now that the victim is standing before you, you question yourself to the bone and end up confessing sometime. Not today, but sometime.
1 comment:
I like this passage a lot. I admire Gene's self honesty, since that is a very important character trait.
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