kept going till all over his head his hair felt of roughly the same length, no more than an inch or so long, then put the scissors down and let his arms fall to his sides. on the newspaper in front of him lay a large creature-like mound of black hair, more than enough to cover the scalp of someone who’d gone bald. it was hard to believe he’d carried so much on his head for so long, and that despite its volume he’d hardly been able to feel its weight. he removed the bar of soap and swept all the individual strands and clumps from the edges of the 