Example One day something happened which in a roundabout way was enlightening It was a poor quarter, a labyrinth of squalid bamboo huts, thatched with palmleaf, winding all over the steep hillside. I marched down the hill, looking and feeling a fool, with the rifle over my shoulder and an ever-growing army of people jostling at my heels. They were watching me as they would watch a conjurer about to perform a trick. They did not like me, but with the magical rifle in my hands I was momentarily worth watching. He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.