`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.

When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.

`` 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 ''.

The arrangement I had with him was to work four hours a day.

I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.

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.

In the work of every artist, I suppose, there may be found one or more moments which strike the student as absolutely decisive, ultimately emblematic of what it is all about ; ;

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.

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.

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.

Never until in this work of S-D organization have I realized and felt the attitude and experience of a Teacher.

Supposing you or I were being accused in this manner, and yet we were doing our level best to carry on our work.

And I was to go to work on that odd matter.

Until the work actually appears I am not privileged to analyze it publicly in detail.

Stirring, he said: `` I am sorry that my work prevents me from doing anything with you today ''.

However, I am recommending that development work on the B-70 air-frame and engines be continued.

These specialists, I learned, have done a great deal of work to improve the size and health of the plants and the resulting flowers.

I have just seen Debonnie and Prompt Time work a mile in 2:34, last quarter in :35.3.

More often than not I have found easy excuse to leave my own work and stand at a respectable distance where I could watch this man transform raw nature into a composed, not imitative, painting.

`` Of late years, I find that I like best to work out-of-doors.

Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

I was nearly thirty at the time.

I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.

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.

By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.

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.

No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.

I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.

My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

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

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

I was again in motion and at a speed which belied the truck's similarity to Senor X's Ford turtle.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

Emperor Justinian I ordered the construction of a large granary on Tenedos and ferries between the island and Constantinople became a major activity on the island.

`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.

I guess you'd better go on in the morning ''.

`` I know '', Jones said dejectedly.

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 don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.

It's not much of a meal, but it's what I eat ''.

`` Mr. Morgan, it's the best-looking food I ever saw ''.

She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.

`` I get up early.

He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.

I believed him.

I didn't understand why, Clay.

`` All my life '', he said, `` I tried.

I tried.

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.

There's someone there I have to see.