Glass Eater

The subject of this book, the persona who shares his story with us, this Glass Eater, is no better or worse than his tormenters. The world is now full of men like him who have moved abroad for economic reasons and find becoming slowly unglued not an unpleasant outcome. They are like college boys who began to cut their classes and found no real consequence to doing so. As lazy as they are naughty, they learn that boredom finds a cure in simple movement. Drifting from one impoverished corner of the globe to another, they leave no wake behind because they matter to no one. As clients of hotels, restaurants, bars and massage parlors, they will scarcely be noticed, much less missed when they move on. When they die, their embassy will attempt to contact relatives and finding none, consign them to a pauper’s grave.