TWO

Feeling Stuck and Doubting Ourselves

RAYMOND BECKER has curly graying hair; he is short, with a compact, athletic build. Handsome, outgoing, and affable, he has a quick wit, a ready smile, and an engaging manner. His mobile face would doom him to defeat in any serious game of poker. He creates the impression of an electrical charge in a perpetual state of overflow, as if the voltage passing through his system is always exceeding the capacity of his nervous-system wiring. He never sits quietly in a chair, but rather shifts and leans, crossing and uncrossing his legs, in a restless attempt to make peace with a piece of furniture that seems designed to trap rather than support him. He speaks rapidly as he shifts and gestures, his speech pressured ...

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