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'This was Slim, the jerkline skinner. His hatchet face was ageless. He might have been thirty-five or fifty. His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.'In this passage from Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck portrays Slim as wise. Which words convey this impression?

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'This was Slim, the jerkline skinner. His hatchet face was ageless. He might have been thirty-five or fifty. His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.'<br>In this passage from <i>Of Mice and Men</i>, John Steinbeck portrays Slim as wise. Which words convey this impression?






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