Gary Jennings. Aztec (№ 376623)

Others were in a hurry, I waited; the other rushed headlong, I exercised caution. I learned to distinguish between the movement as such and the movement aimed at achieving a certain goal. Where others, impatient, saw the village, I saw her inhabitants. Where others saw the inhabitants, I saw individual people. In those cases, when other, sliding down the stranger's gaze, nodded, and hurried on, I saw it up close and remembered what he saw in such detail that we were then able to draw this man.