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“Everything I know is what I have been taught by the sayings and writings of people who have studied the sayings and writings of people who have-and so on. Once in awhile someone stumbles on something new and he or someone cleaverer uses the idea and disseminated it.

The first thing each person asks himself upon experiencing the new sense is: Does what I see and feel represent reality or am I suffering from a delusion? The fact that the new experience seems even more real than the old teachings of simple and self consciousness does not at first fully reassure him, because he probably knows that delusions, when present, possess the mind as firmly as facts do.

It seems that in every, or nearly every, man who enters cosmic consciousness apprehension is at first more or less excited, the person doubting whether the new sense may not be a symptom of form of insanity.

“It is well known that the distinction of color is of late date; that Xenophanes knew of three colors of the rainbow only—purple, red and yellow; that even Aristotle spoke of the tri colored rainbow; and that Democritus knew of no more than four colors—black, white, red, and yellow.”

Reader, do you know what it is to be outwardly as calm as a blasé policeman and all the time quivering with inwards excitement? If I could have yelled once or twice it would have been an immense relief, but i had a part to play, and I meant to play it.

More, I desired to humiliate Mrs. Gunter. Her callous treatment of me, her silvery but malicious laughter, her avowed admiration of Lindsay, had galled me to an extent the expression of which I have carefully kept from these pages. Noblesse oblige! One cannot be rude. But I wanted to annoy her—a very common phase of love.

He looked first at the clubs, and then at me, with a half-questioning, half-stupid twinkle in his hard, blue eyes. Then he spat.
I apologise to the reader for mentioning anything so unpleasant, but it is an uncomfortable habit that certain classes indulge in when they decide to punctuate of emphasis their views. Amongst themselves, I believe, it is considered highly expressive, if employed at the true psychological

I stopped again, with the intention of arguing out the point once and for all, when I realized that if I went on the addressing this invisible spectre, I might possibly be mistaken for a madman. I therefore contented myself with a withering glance of abhorrence at the prelate, and a few unspoken words to the effect that nothing in heaven or earth would induce me to have further truck with him. I then walked calmly on

“Then,” I timidly pursued, with a good deal of hesitation, beating about the bush to find appropriate terms, “ I presume I have the—the—honor of addressing a—a spirit?”
“Jist that,” responded the Cardinal , with a sort of jocose cordiality that was very reassuring and comforting.

I’ll tell you what, Kirkcudbright——“
“Kiekingulloch, sir.”
“Kirkintulloch, just you let me have a smack at the ball.”

“Dear Betty, it is not my falt if I care about America. Yes I am in the navy now or will be next month and I may stay in the milaterry but you are still swell but you make me mad. Love, Herman Randolph
We stayed out there picking apart his note, for instance his signing his last name. And we both had to wonder if the Navy would teach him how to spell military. Then I put the letter in my pocket and walked …”

“I wrote her back and said I wanted to stay in Richmond and make the best of things, and I apologized if this broke her heart. However, as soon as I got home from the post office I started packing like the house was on fire, and in twelve hours I was on my way out of Richmond, Virginia, where sun was and probably still is very, very handy.”

“I socialized, as had always been my nature, with older women, longtime Kresge’s employees as well as my secretarial instructors. In the main all these women had been raised in Richmond. Nothing much turned their heads. Through these friends, as a matter or fact, I learned how to drink Earl Greg tea with milk, which was rough at first but by sheer force of habit became something I love.”

Your grandmother made me miserable. I couldn’t understand her and I’d become nervous, which seemed to thrill her because she’d push me stronger. But though I can’t say she would’ve cried had I fallen overboard, I also can’t say she was a bad woman. she’d hardened herself to live either way my father, and this would’ve made the best of us mean-spirited. I have difficulty judging her, although she had n

all my life I’d heard my father remark that his mother had been a very strong believer in salvation by grace and that she had led her community’s pacification movement and suffered ridicule greatly during ww1. She sounded very progressive in her thinking, though still firm in her church. And I featured her with a calm nature and gentle disposition and I any times wished I’d know. Her. My mother, however, told

“Thus she meant that if she was married she could help herself from having babies. I told her that she didn’t necessarily have to keep creating new life upon new life. In so many words, if you don’t want butter you can pull the dashed out.”

You’ve worked, worked, worked. You’ve rarely seen Betty wake up and eat breakfast. And now you’re here to witness our daily habits, which are none of your business and cost you nothing. We’ll not stay in the house all day. You stay here! We’re bored! And what’s it costing you, anyway?

Amanda interrupted her leaving to ask what she planned to name the babies.
She told us, Bernard and Barnard, these names going so naturally together.
That fairly took our breath. My mother asked her if that wouldn’t get confusing, which it would. Trudy said, No. she said she intended to call them Pee Wee and Buddy. Then told us all to have a nice afternoon, and organized her children out the door and walked the s

“… even Amanda Bethune, who in 1928 had been declared as having it all. Of course, my mother took one look at Amanda, yanked her up, brought her back to our house, and lent her a chintz skirt and her faux rub barrette.
Although particular people in the community talked about my mother as being silly and view her high spirit in the same vein as telling jokes at a funeral, she was merely refusing to let herself wa