6.10.2002
"Tall, slender. Somewhat angular -- straight lines, straight angles, hard muscles. Walks swiftly, easily, too easily, slouching a little, a loose kind of ease in motion, as if movement requires no effort whatever, a body to which movement is as natural as immobility, without a definite line to divide them, a light, flowing, lazy ease of motion, an energy so complete that is assumes the ease of laziness. Large, long hands -- prominent joints and knuckles and wristbones, with hard, prominent veins on the backs of the hands; hands that look neither young nor old, but exceedingly strong. His clothes always disheveled, disarranged, loose and suggesting...a certain savage unfitness for clothes. Definitely red, loose, straight hair, always dishevelled."

"A hard, forbidding face, not in the least attractive according to conventional standards. More liable to be considered homely than handsome. Very prominent cheek-bones. A hard, straight nose. A large mouth -- long and narrow, with a thin upper lip and a rather prominent lower one, which gives him the appearance of an eternal, frozen half-smile, and ironic, hard, uncomfortable smile, mocking and contemptuous. Wrinkles or dimples or slightly prominent muscles, all of that or none definitely, around the corners of his mouth. A rather pale face, without color on the cheeks and with freckles over the bridge of the nose and the cheekbones. Dark red eyebrows, straight and thin. Dark gray, expressionless eyes -- eyes that refuse to show expression, to be exact. Very long straight, dark red eyelashes -- the only soft, gentle touch of the face -- a surprising touch in his grim expression. And when he laughs -- which happens seldom -- his mouth opens wide, with a complete, loose kind of abandon. A low, hard, throaty voice -- not rasping, but rather blurred in its tone, but rather distinct in its sound, with the same soft, lazy fluency as his movements, neither one being soft or lazy..."

- a description of Howard Roark. My favorite novel character yet, perhaps because he reminds me so much of myself.
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