“The Sea” by John Banville: Booker Prize-winning novel begins where yesterday’s post left off; his agreement with a small mad version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“I looked aside quickly for fear my eyes would give me away; one’s eyes are always those of someone else, the mad and desperate dwarf crouched within” (1, p. 15).

Comment (added 1:28 p.m.) : When he says "one's" eyes instead of merely his own eyes, he mistakenly extrapolates his own multiple personality experience to everyone, as many novelists do.

1. John Banville. The Sea. New York, Vintage International, 2005.