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But the men--hungry, greedy, tired of planting in dry soil--had been forced to leave the village in order to send food-money home.
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His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning.
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Adultery, perhaps only a mistake during good times, became a crime when the village needed food.
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The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action.
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If only I could let my mother know the list, she --and the world--would become more like me, and I would never be alone again.
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Perhaps I made him up, and what I once had was not Chinese-sight at all but child-sight that would have disappeared eventually without such struggle.
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Maybe because I was the one with the tongue cut loose, I had grown inside me a list of over two hundred things that I had to tell my mother so that she would know the true things about me and to stop the pain in my throat.
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The day was a great eye, and it was not paying much attention to me now.
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Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. Give me plastics, periodical tables, TV dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. Shine floodlights into dark..
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