![]() ![]() We began talking of last words of famous people and of our dead relatives, and Cornelius dipped his head and fastened his gaze on his dark beer. Someone at the table remarked about Merrill's cryptic last words, "love enough," words that now sting me as much as any indictment of my complicity or encouragement,īut they didn't then. In the faculty lunchroom of our small private boys' academy, but it wasn't shock or Cornelius's head start in drinking that snowy afternoon in Penn's Den where we'd gone after the funeral that made ![]() We'd all felt the shock of Merrill's sudden death, a loss that thrust us into a temporary intimacy uncommon It was after Dean Merrill's funeral that I began to see Cornelius's unmasked heart. To me only later, Cornelius Engelbrecht revealed to me the secret obsession that lay beneath his orderly, controlled design. ![]() However, that exterior blandness masked a burning center, and for some reason that became clear ![]() Sponsor of the chess club, mild-mannered acquaintance to all rather than a friend to any, a person anxious to become invisible. Let me emphasize, straight away, that he isn't what I would call a friend, but I know him enough to say that he did purposely design himself: single, modest dresser in receding colors, mathematics teacher, ![]()
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