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We and were
We were coming to
an intersection, turning right, chuffing to
a stop
.
We were off the road, gleaming barbed wire pulling taut
.
We were in
a field, in
a tight, screeching turn
.
We were back on the road
.
We were slowing
.
We enjoyed
a paradoxical freedom when we
were still too
young for school
.
We were not, however, entirely unacquainted with the varying aspects of the street
.
We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in
a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they
were latched, rest our chins on the top,
and stare
and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details
that lay before our eyes
.
We can also argue
that the three brothers Karamazov
and Smerdyakov
were the external representatives of
an internal conflict within one man, Dostoevsky,
a conflict having to do with father-murder
and the wish to possess the father's woman
.

``
We were possessed by visions of
a new civilization to come, very pure
and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''
.
We were given
a job
and we carried it out,
and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee
.

``
We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant,
and we are not of course either
a formal group or
a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat
.
We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins
and beer cans, but just so
that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by
a couple of braying portable radios
.
We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve,
and where I felt there was
a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary
.
We may say of some unfortunates
that they
were never
young.

``
We have just returned from Roswell, N.M., where we
were defeated, 34 to 9 '', the
young man noted
.
We were less than
a quarter of
a mile from the road,
and we could trace its shape from the ribbon of powder smoke
and dust
that hung over it
.

``
We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in
a muffled voice
that must have been used to booming, ``
and the news didn't catch up with us till we
were nearly home
.
We blushed
and were flustered,
and it turned out to be the fleetest brush of lips upon cheek
.
We would have the means to seek out
and destroy the enemy's force -- whether it
were fixed or mobile
.
We were in business!!
We were camping
a few weeks ago on Cape Hatteras Campground in
that land of pirates, seagulls
and bluefish on North Carolina's famed Outer Banks
.
We and at
We made
a rendezvous tomorrow evening
at nine on some street near Lake Ponchartrain
.
We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much
at the mercy of man
.
We will recall
that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San Francisco to set up the legal framework, finally
and at last, to rationalize war -- to rationalize want
and fear -- out of the world: the United Nations
.
We feel uncomfortable
at being bossed by
a corporation or
a union or
a television set, but until we have some knowledge about these phenomena
and what they are doing to us, we can hardly learn to control them
.
We fashioned beards, put them on,
and reported to the Hetman
at the city desk
.
We would all meet
at ten o'clock
at the Kehl bridge, five miles from Strasbourg,
and march triumphantly across into Germany
.
We stopped first
at the amphitheater
that lies
at the foot of the height crowned by the Parthenon
.
We must, therefore, have
a look
at the new archaeological material
and re-examine the literary
and place-name evidence which bears upon the problem
.
We see
at once what Victor Hugo means when he calls Macbeth
a northern scion of the house of Atreus
.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to
a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from
at least as far back as the eighteenth century
and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century
and Zamiatin's
We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength,
and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four,
and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '',
and When The Sleeper Wakes,
and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots
.
We saw Giuseppe Berto
at a party once in
a while, tall, lean, nervous
and handsome,
and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese,
and Pavese is dead
.
We had assumed
that at least this local legislative body had nothing to hide,
and, therefore, had no objections to making the deliberations of its committees
and the city commissions available to the public
.
We want the past forgiven, but
at the same time we must be willing for God to direct the future
.

``
We got one
at home
.
We did not accept the diagnosis
at once, but gradually we are coming to
.
We veterans acknowledge the fact
that as time passes the demand for medical care
at VA hospitals will grow proportionately as age fosters illness
.
We didn't have time to speak before Eileen's voice was screeching
at us from the bed
.
We repeat,
that the test of
a violation of 7 is whether,
at the time of suit, there is
a reasonable probability
that the acquisition is likely to result in the condemned restraints
.
We have the technology today with which to build aircraft shelters which could withstand
at least 200 Aj
.
We quickly ran into the same trouble
that plagued Bill Ruger in his first experiments: Three or four bullets would be placed well in
a six-inch bull
at 100 yards
and then, unaccountably, one could stray far out of the group
.

``
We, the Subscribers, do agree,
that as soon as
a convenient Number of Persons have subscribed to this, or
a similar Writing,
We will present
a petition to the Hon'ble General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, praying for
an Act incorporating into
a Body politic the subscribers to such Writing with Liberty to build such
a Bridge,
and a Right to demand
a Toll equal to
that received
at Malden Bridge,
and on like Terms,
and if such
an Act shall be obtained, then we severally agree each with the others,
that we will hold in the said Bridge the several shares set against our respective Names, the whole into two hundred shares being divided,
and that we will pay such sums of Money
at such Times
and in such Manners, as by the said proposed Corporation, shall be directed
and required ''
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