`` 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.

I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.

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.

I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.

I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.

I was fascinated ; ;

Browne was fascinated by the world of dreams and described his own ability to lucid dream in his Religio Medici: "... yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests and laugh my self awake at the conceits thereof ".

I am fascinated by Spinoza's Pantheism.

I was fascinated by the pinheads in the introductory scene and asked the projectionist ( who I knew ) if he could slow down the film so I could hear what they were saying better.

But later Wittgenstein stated, “ Only much later, after I ’ d studied the concerto for months, did I become fascinated by it and realized what a great work it was .” In 1933, Wittgenstein played the work in concert for the first time to instant acclaim.

They were at first sceptical ; Gillespie said: " I always remember being quite fascinated by it but not quite getting it.

Bashō's own references to this time are vague ; he recalled that " at one time I coveted an official post with a tenure of land ", and that " there was a time when I was fascinated with the ways of homosexual love ", but there is no indication whether he was referring to real obsessions or even fictional ones.

The Episcopal House of Bishops met in Houston one year, and I became intrigued by the leaders of the church — fascinated by their discussions and their erudition.

Anderson recalls, " I had always been fascinated by suburbia, and I liked to throw these twisted references to small-town British life into songs.

" It sounds a little gross, but I was fascinated with pus ," Jemison said.

Locklear became fascinated by flying, trying to build his own glider, so when World War I involved the US in 1917, he joined the U. S. Army Air Service.

So I ’ m fascinated by what happens when you take a person in a very ordinary, textured world and the story that surfaces actually mimics the process of awareness that is right at the heart of that world … so it ’ s this wonderful, crazy mix of subjectivity and things that keeps drawing me to more open, more flexible forms of story.

Off-screen, the film's director David O. Russell introduced them both, and Watts has said about Hedren, " I was pretty fascinated by her then because people have often said that we're alike.

So they had a computer-operated milling machine built to cut the blades, and I was fascinated by that.

In one anecdote from the time, MacFarlane said in a 2011 interview he was " always like just weirdly fascinated by the Communion ceremony I did a strip that had a guy kneeling at the altar taking Communion and saying ' Can I have fries with that?

Like my father, I was fascinated by machines .” His decision to become a writer did not come until the time he entered college at Marquette.

He was interested in mechanics at an early age and became fascinated by flying machines, partly through the influence of Hermann Göring, who was an ace during World War I and later head of the Luftwaffe.

I lived in a state of suspense because of it.

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

My Uncle and I were not too close socially because of the difference in our ages.

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.

`` But knowing you, I know that you're glad to be alive, and grateful -- and sorry because I killed the snake, even though I had to.

You hate me, you hate my guts, because I like to hunt.

You actually hate me -- and we both know it -- because I killed that filthy snake.

and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.

Sometimes I guessed it was because the rain squall had changed direction.

`` I suppose because it saves them some loss of body water.

The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.

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.

I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

`` 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 ''.

At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;