Parsifal

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Also, there are monsters.

Parsifal thinks he may be one of them.

Parsifal is of average height, and more or less normal looking, except for the scar.

One day Parsifal stood on the sidewalk outside his house, not looking at the sidewalk, which was an ordinary sidewalk, and not even looking at his feet, which were ordinary as well. Instead, Parsifal looked upward at a bird turning in circles, or slow spirals.

The bird made no discernible sound, while all around him Parsifal could hear car doors slam, traffic move, even the tapping cane of a blind man as the man walked toward him. (Parsifal lived near a center for the blind whose patrons often used the sidewalks of his neighborhood for practice.) Although the bird was very high, Parsifal imagined he could describe the exact sound of the wind as it passed over the bird’s feathers. He imagined it was the sound of the ocean, the same sound he sometimes heard when he picked up a seashell and held it to his ear.

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