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* I thought it was very funny, and I thought the audience that they portrayed was totally real, but the actors that they were pretending to be were totally unrecognizable.
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The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
You thought I was a Mexican, didn't you, buddy ''??
Suddenly and not a second too soon I thought of the coins in my pocket.
Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.
I thought I saw a faint surge of color rise to her neck and quickly suffuse her cheeks.
At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.
Ramey smiled but he thought to himself, I always see me too.
`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.
But when it happens to you like that, I tell you, and you're a hundred feet from where you thought you were -- well, it makes you think.
But I would never have thought of it myself ''.
That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.
I used his polarity to illustrate what I thought had happened to us in that form of liberalism we call Progressivism.
`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.
It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.
I and was
`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.
`` But that was war '', I said.
Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.
In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;
under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.
I was nearly thirty at the time.
It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;
Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.
This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.
I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.
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Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
I felt certain it was self-appointed.
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I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.
I and very
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Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
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He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.
Now I wish to enter the American market, where the competition is very strong.
The fear of disease was formerly very much the kind of fear I have tried to describe.
I told him no, that I had had a very happy childhood.
When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.
Both I and my feelings come up out of a chain of events that fan out into the past into sources that are ultimately very unlike the entity which I now am.
This combined experience, on a foundation of very average, I assure you, intelligence and background, has helped me do things many well-informed people would bet heavily against.
`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.
I recoil from the very thought.
`` Dear Miss Steichen: It is a very good letter you send me -- softens the intensity of this guerilla warfare I am carrying on up here.
I had had difficulties from the very first day.
What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.
That was a very absurd and annoying situation in which I was placed by W. M.'s curious methods of handling me.
I know you are very busy now, you are writing a great deal & your book is coming out, isn't it??
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