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I and could
`` I made you so you could stand up.
I could see them in my sights.
Far up the valley I could see the Rees circling and reorganizing.
I could see their faces glistening with sweat and bear grease, their mouths open, shouting their spine-chilling cries.
I could see the blood running down his chest.
I could smell woodsmoke, grease, and oil.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
Since they could see me but I not them, their presence in the hall disturbed me.
) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.
I could not cling to my past nor did I wish to.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
I could consult this personage on any weekday morning, though not before ten o'clock.
Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

I and use
`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.
and now I think we can use the knowledge they passed on to us.
To this meek conjugation Nicolas had replied, `` O.K. I can use this blanket.
But a young American has a bath next to his room and I shall ask him if you might use it this once.
I am naive, they say, to make use of such words.
I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.
I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.
This man, Tom said, had the play shut up in his desk, I believe, and when Tom sat down, he pulled it out and apologetically told Tom that they wouldn't be able to use it.
for if this can be proved we shall surely be the gainers -- I mean, if there is a use in poetry as well as a delight ''.
`` Now, if I can just figure out what he's talking about, I'll use it ''.
As a business man I have to use the telephone constantly, from three to four hours a day.
I use the phrase advisedly because there was something positively indecent about our relationship.
For my seedbed I use good garden soil with a little sand added to encourage rooting.
`` As for materials, I use the best available.
`` In addition to the usual tools, I make constant use of cleansing tissue, not only to wipe my brushes, but to mop up certain areas, to soften edges, and to open up lights in dark washes.
I also use a small electric hand-blower to dry large washes in the studio.
The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.
For the reason just suggested, I shall assume the use of the first subtype of fully distributed cost apportionment in the following simplified example.
The only other one I shall mention here is his use of the term capitalism.
I cite it as evidence that he did not develop through new styles as he grew older ( as Yeats did ), but that he simply learned to use better what he already had.
This country has not used them, and I hope that we never will be compelled to use them.
I state categorically that we shall under no circumstances resort to the use of such weapons unless they are first used by our enemies ''.
After a few minutes he said, `` I can't use you if you dance like that.

I and some
We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.
Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.
As best as I could determine, we were some 700 miles west of New Guinea, in the Bismark Archipelago.
I persuaded an Australian friend who had lived `` outback '' for years to take me to see some aborigines living in the bush.
`` I suppose because it saves them some loss of body water.
When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )
I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.
I am usually filled with an uneasiness that through some unwitting slip all hell may break loose.
But I have been at some pains to review it as the drama of the common man, to point up what happened to him under Eisenhower's leadership.
If I now risk some comparisons with Sons And Lovers let it be clear that I am not comparing the two works or judging their merits ; ;
There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;
Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.
You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.
Other countries, some of which I visited last month, have similar needs.
I had known him for some years, when I was a delegate and before, and this manner had never been his ''.

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