…he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called ‘strange.’ A child who is mature, in the sense that the heart is mature, is always, I have observed, called deficient

…he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called ‘strange.’ A child who is mature, in the sense that the heart is mature, is always, I have observed, called deficient (Djuna Barnes, Nightwood)