Richard Yates: "Itu menghantuinya sepanjang malam, sementara dia tidur...

"Itu menghantuinya sepanjang malam, sementara dia tidur sendirian; itu masih di sana di pagi hari, ketika dia menelan kopinya dan mundur di jalan masuk di Ford tua yang kusut. Dan mengendarai mobil ke tempat kerja, salah satu penumpang termuda dan tersehat di kereta, ia duduk dengan tampang seorang lelaki yang dihukum mati sangat lambat, tanpa rasa sakit. Dia merasa setengah baya."

--- Richard Yates

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Versi Bahasa Inggris

It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the driveway in the crumpled old Ford. And riding to work, one of the youngest and healthiest passengers on the train, he sat with the look of a man condemned to a very slow, painless death. He felt middle-aged.