American drama -- 20th century; Experimental fiction, American; Prose poems
If you had a little likeness and hoped for more terror. If you had a
refusal and were slender. If you had cuff-buttons and jackets and really
astonishing kinds of fever would you stop talking. Would you not
consider it necessary to talk over affairs.
It was a chance that made them never miss tea. They did not miss it
because it was there. They did not mean to be particular. They invited
their friends. They were not aching. It was noiseless and beside that
they were clever. Who was clever. The way they had of seeing mother.
Mother was prepared.
They were caressing.
They had sound sense.
They were questioned.
They had likeness. Likeness to what. Likeness to loving. Who had
likeness to loving. They had likeness to loving. Why did they have a
likeness to loving. They had a likeness to loving because it was easily
seen that they were immeasurable.
They were fixed by that, they were fixed, not licensed, they were seen,
not treasured, they were announced, not restless, they were reasoning,
not progressing. I do not wish to imply that there is any remedy for any
defect.
I cannot state that anyone was disappointed. I cannot state that any one
was ever disappointed by willingly heaping much confusion in particular
places. No confusion is reasonable. Anybody can be nervous.
They were nervous again.
This is wishing.
Why is wishing related to a ridiculous pretence of changing opposition
to analysis. The answer to this is that nearly any one can faint. I
don't mean to say that they don't like tennis.
Please be capable of sounds and shoulders. Please be capable of careful
words. Please be capable of meaning to measure further.
They measured there.
They were heroes.
Nobody believed papers.
Everybody believed colors.
I cannot exercise obligation.
I cannot believe cheating.
I cannot sober mother.
I cannot shut my heart.
I cannot cherish vice.
I cannot deceive all.
I cannot be odious.
I cannot see between.
Between what and most.
I cannot answer either.
Do be left over suddenly.
This is not advice.
No one knows so well what widening means. It means that yards are yards
and so many of them are perfect. By that I mean I know.
This is not so.
I am not telling the story I am repeating what I have been reading.
What effects tenderness.
Not to remember the name.
Say it.
The time comes when it is natural to realize that solid advantages
connect themselves with pages of extreme expression. This is never
nervously pale. It is finely and authentically swollen by the time there
is any rapid shouting.
I do not like the word shouting. I do not mean that it gives me any
pleasure. On the contrary I see that individual annoyances are increased
by it but nevertheless I am earnestly persuasive concerning it. Why
soothe why soothe each other.
This is not at all what is being said.
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