Madonna in a Fur Coat (Penguin Modern Classics)

live in the same places was not to live as he did.

It was almost as if he had withdrawn to another time – a place that was his and his alone – and nothing I could do would bring him back.

Though I did not know what I was learning from this silent man walking alongside me, I was certain that I was learning far more than I would have done from a teacher of many years.