`` I truly smelled blood, death, heaps of corpses everywhere ''.

It seemed incredible, as I listened to the monotonous drone of voices and smelled the fetid odors coming from the patients, that technically I was a ward of the state of Illinois, going to a hospital for the mentally ill.

I had come prepared to worship at the feet of this classic, and he turned out to be a rather bitter old man who smelled of dead cigars.

* Genesis 8: 21: " And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, " I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man ’ s heart is evil from his youth.

I could not open my mouth because then I smelled something terrible.

It was a huge deal in Colorado ( where I lived ) and the sky smelled like smoke and I had this big tumultuous poem about range fire ... So I sent them this.

Nineteen delegates chose not to accept election or attend the debates ; for example, Patrick Henry of Virginia thought that state politics were far more interesting and important than national politics, though during the ratification controversy of 1787 – 1788 he claimed, " I smelled a rat.

Nigel Powers, upon seeing him, says " Blimey, I thought I smelled cabbage ", thinking he is a carny ( referring back to an anecdote from the first Austin Powers movie ).

I smelled the meat a ' cookin ' and I had to come in and check.

I used to go with Watson to call on the eminent neurologist at his apartment, to sit among the doctor's excellent collection of statues, paintings, and books and drink Oriental coffee while Watson seemed to thaw out and become almost affable.

I walked to the right around it to buildings containing illuminated manuscripts and came to the Treasury, which houses such things as coffee cups covered with diamonds, jewelled swords, rifles glittering with diamonds and huge divan-like thrones as large as small beds, on which the sultans sat cross-legged.

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

I sat there with the faint odor of charcoal-broiled steaks tantalizing my nostrils and occasionally catching the aroma of coffee.

I got in the car, drove down to the drive-in and ordered a couple of hamburgers with everything included, a cup of coffee and the fastest service possible.

And after I brought them sandwiches and coffee I had to go back to my place in the kitchen and wait.

`` Since we're having coffee with them this afternoon '', he said, `` I think I'll ask the daughter if we can pay her to come in every day to clean for us ''.

Even earlier I would take my coffee at Martin's, at 54th Street – now, alas, vanished – where I would see creatures of the night life before they disappeared with the

:: A few years after the publication of my first written story, " Incommunicado ," written 1947 and published 1950, I was taking a break from two weeks of typing, walking down Fifth Avenue, noticing vaguely that there were no coffee shops, and the storefronts were closed and it was dark.

While they were suggesting coffee and sitting down to talk, I explained I had a hot story on the typewriter and had to get back to it before I lost the train of ideas and escaped.

:" Tom would go to his room with black coffee and cigarettes and I would hear the typewriter clicking away at night in the silent house.

" It was spring and not yet warm ," Goldman later wrote, " but the coffee I brewed, our sandwiches, and dainty dishes were beginning to be appreciated.

Indeed, with fear and terror I imagine the time, when those dark iconoclasts come to power: with their raw fists they will batter all marble images of my beloved world of art, they will ruin all those fantastic anecdotes that the poets loved so much, they will chop down my Laurel forests and plant potatoes and, oh !, the herbs chandler will use my Book of Songs to make bags for coffee and snuff for the old women of the future – oh !, I can foresee all this and I feel deeply sorry thinking of this decline threatening my poetry and the old world order-And yet, I freely confess, the same thoughts have a magical appeal upon my soul which I cannot resist ….

" We met at this coffee shop, and I saw her and I thought " Oh, God.

I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.

I was thinking about that.

He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.

`` I might try it one of these days '', Jack said wonderingly, thinking of Miss Langford.

I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.

`` You know '', Norton said to me later, `` I am thinking of setting up the Klinico Brownapopolus.

I keep thinking of a young woman I knew during the Occupation in Austria.

I knew better but I was thinking of the Pedersen kid mother-naked in all that dough.

He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.

I sighed, thinking that among other things, people here seemed to be those who would have to cut down if they earned less than $85,000 yearly ; ;

`` I'll try '', I said, and sat for a moment thinking.

She says later, but still within the opening five minutes, `` I keep thinking of a divorce but that's another emotional death ''.

I insisted on takeing the field and prevailed -- thinking that I had better die by rebel bullets than ( by ) Union quackery ''.

God knows what the African nations, who hold 25 per cent of the voting stock in the U.N. were thinking -- they may, for example, have been thinking of the U.S. abstention when the vote on Algerian freedom was before the Assembly -- but I think I have a fairly accurate notion of what the Negroes in the gallery were thinking.

She knew that I lived at a good address on the Gold Coast, that I had once been a medical student and was thinking of returning to the university to finish my medical studies.

What sort of men I would come into contact with, at the hall??

`` What else would I mean, anyways ''??

`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.

What I am here to do is to report on the gyrations of the struggle -- a struggle that amounts to self-redefinition -- to see if we can predict its future course.

What I want to point out here is that all of them are ex-liberals, or modified liberals, with perhaps one exception.

What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.

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.

Then I asked, `` What does that teach you ''??

Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.

I thought: What the hell??

What I do is to try to bring him into contact with reality as much as possible.

What I have to put up with!!

Then he was asking himself the usual early morning questions: What the Hell am I doin here??

`` What else could I do??

What I mean is, he was a Pole and the greatest soldier in the Ulanys.

What I did know was that Precious was always around.

What matter the others so long as I have my place in history ''.

`` What I want you to do is to go to the market with me early tomorrow morning and help smuggle the hen back into the hotel ''.

What you think I care about that??

With this enlarged role in mind, I should like to make a few suggestions: What we in the United States do or do not do will make a very large difference in what happens in the rest of the world.

What I am suggesting is that when we delay, or when we fail to act, we do so intentionally and not through inadvertence or through bureaucratic or procedural difficulties.