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I and made
`` I made you what you are '', Gavin whispered.
`` I made you so you could stand up.
I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
`` Tell him I made a pass at you ''.
If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
I must say the figure was well made up.
Foster Lukuklu Frayne made a sign over his heart with his two linked thumbs: I recognized it as an ancient Manu gesture intended to propitiate the Devil.
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
I reconstruct his sentences from notes made immediately after our conversation.
My great-grandmother, I have been told, made her garden her great pride ; ;
But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.
The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.

I and you
`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.
You fell down in front of the house, and I carried you in.
I gave you a drink and then you went to sleep ''.
`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
I saw you driftin away -- but I tried.
And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.
God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.
The charge, I tell you ''!!
`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.
`` I thought I told you to stay home ''.
I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.
`` I won't even try to thank you ''.
He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.

I and man
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.
Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.
As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.
But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
Looking back I saw a gray-haired man getting out of his halted car and trying to read our license number.
The rest of the time I devoted to painting or to those other activities a young and healthy man just out of college finds interesting.
True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.
The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.
I expected Brassnose -- as a man with a strain of Melanesian in his blood -- to speak to them.
I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.
`` I am an honest man '', the German said with fervor.
`` No, I don't think so '', said the big man, and it was the final clincher for Ernie.
I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.
A man must be able to say, `` Father, I have sinned '', or there is no hope for him.
`` I scanned the world through printed symbol swart, And through the beggar's rags I strove to see The inner man.
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.
Said: `` There are things I must tell you about this man you are marrying which he does not know himself ''.
Carl thought the question over slowly and answered: `` I know a starving man who is fed never remembers all the pangs of his starvation, I know that ''.
I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.

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