No Longer Human ( PDFDrive )

105 f^CtSK-S W ;yi m
bottom. It was a laugh which enabled me to catch ^"'^
a glimpse of the very nadir of adult life.
\r\o< GQ
He said, "There's no point in discussing such a ri)^m<
thing. Your feelings are still all up in the air. Think vu (
it over. Please devote this evening to thinking it over
seriously."
I ran up to the second floor as though driven, but
even when I lay in bed nothing of a particularly
constructive nature occurred to me. The next morning
at dawn I ran away from Flatfish's house.
I left behind a note, scrawled in pencil in big
letters on my writing pad. "I shall return tonight
without fail. I am going to discuss my plans for the
future with a friend who lives at the address below.
Please don't worry about me. I'm telling the truth."
I wrote Horiki's name and address, and stole out of
Flatfish's house.
I did not run away because I was mortified at
having been lectured by Flatfish. I was, exactly as
Flatfish described, a man whose feelings were up in
the air, and I had absolutely no idea about future
plans or anything else. Besides, I felt rather sorry
for Flatfish that I should be a burden on him, and I
found it quite intolerably painful to think that if by
some remote chance I felt like bestirring myself to
achieve a worthy purpose, I should have to depend