Bound

. — „Nothing less than love for this man with no illusions: love for the bluntness, scrupulosity, severity, estrangement; love for the relentless winnowing out of the babyish, preening, insatiable self; love for the artistic mulishness and the suspicion of nearly everything else; and love for the buried charm, of which he’d just given me a glimpse.“ – Nathan Zuckerman about Lonoff. In: Philip Roth, The Ghost Writer.