UNKewlJ was an inveterate liar who seemed to lie more for himself than for any visible audience. He had a clean-cut, Asiatic face, but there was something curiously diseased about him. He was subject to sudden fluctuations in weight, like a diabetic or a sufferer from liver trouble. These changes in weight were often accompanied by uncontrollable fits of restlessness, such that he would disappear for some days.

The effect was uncanny. You would see him one time a fresh-faced Pac Islander. A week or so later he would turn up so thin, sallow and old-looking, you would have to look twice to recognize him. His face was lined with suffering in which his eyes did not participate. It was a suffering of his cells alone. He himself -- the conscious insecure ego that looked out of the glazed, alert-calm hoodlum eyes -- would have nothing to do with this suffering of his rejected other self, a suffering of the nervous system, of flesh and viscera and cells.