There was something shocking, though -- not that there should have been, but there was -- in the notion that he might be harmed for nothing more than being himself, which he had not even tried to do in the first place.
Havia algo chocante, no entanto, não que deveria ter havido, mas havia, na noção de poder ser prejudicado por nada mais do que ser ele mesmo, que nem mesmo havia tentado fazer em primeiro lugar.