American drama -- 20th century; Experimental fiction, American; Prose poems
In advance we have spoken, of what, can you imagine obedience as a
subject. It is. It is laughable when there is no need of any backing.
Can you understand that in two ways.
We mean to be lean. Lean to me. And then what a girl. No girl and Emil.
We like fresh cooking. So does anybody.
No everybody doesn't.
The right spirit. There are difficulties and they must be met in the
right spirit.
This is an illustration of the difficulties we have in many ways.
Then we go on.
I have made up my mind not to be excited.
In speeding I speed.
In neglecting I do not offer anything.
In reason I reverse the car and in this way we are successful.
We have no worries.
What can you think of a bone.
It is useless to think.
Digestion.
In that way we do not prey.
We write of fish.
And then I have been careful.
It is all imagination.
Can you sing rightly.
A trunk locked up in Perpignan.
In this way we pass the hay.
I have reasoned.
I am convinced.
I do not argue.
Or play the piano.
As the daughters of the banker do.
This is now the book in which I write and receive.
Can you guess Beziers.
Was I right.
You are.
Indeed there are barrels.
TOURTY OR TOURTEBATTRE
A STORY OF THE GREAT WAR
Tourtebattre came to visit us in the court he said he heard Americans
were in town and he came to see us and we said what is your name and
what americans have you known and we said we would go to see him and we
did not and we did not give him anything.
Then when we went out to see the hospital we did not take him anything.
We asked to see him. Then when the new things came we did take a package
to him and we did not see him but he came and called on us to thank us
and we were out.
Reflections.
If I must reflect I reflect upon Ann Veronica. This is not what is
intended. Mrs. Tourtebattre. Of this we know nothing.
Can we reflect one for another.
Profit and loss is three twenty five never two seventy five.
Yes that is the very easy force, decidedly not.
Then Tourtebattre used to come all the time and then he used to tell us
how old he was when he was asked and he took sugar in his coffee as it
was given to him. He was not too old to be a father he was thirty seven
and he had three children and he told us that he liked to turn a phrase.
China. Whenever he went to the colonies his sister was hurt in an
automobile accident. This did not mean that she suffered.
Some one thought she was killed. Will you please put that in.
His father's watch, his wife gave all his most precious belongings to a
man who did not belong to the town he said he belonged to. We did not
know the truth of this.
Reflections.
We should not color our hero with his wife's misdeeds. Because you see
he may be a religion instead of a talker. Little bones have to come out
of his hand for action this was after his wound. A good deal.
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