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Haha - yuck
it never occurred to her that he had gone out for reasons that had nothing to do with her.
her fear coming out sounding like anger.
She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.
How much of it was her fault? That question haunted her.
me - no reason for that grammar error, cf. p. 60 “for me and Danny”
She imagined she smelled it but knew it wasn’t so.
the caul that had covered it at birth now resided in a small jar which she had kept,
Ewww.
Haha
her son’s wordless opposition to the whole idea of divorce?
she felt that the three of them had been permanently welded together—that if their three/oneness was to be destroyed, it would not be destroyed by any of them but from outside.
the drunk, savagely pettish voice crying hoarsely:
Doctor Denton pajamas,
Simile
The only human being, at least.
that familiar voice
the alien streetlight
a sinuous jungle filled with flesh-eating plants that wanted only to slip around him, squeeze the life out of him, and drag him down into a blackness where one sinister word flashed in red: REDRUM.
And, no doubt, eagerly
Simile
They were beautiful mountains but they were hard. She did not think they would forgive many mistakes. An unhappy foreboding rose in her throat.
Haha
Hallorann
The imagination seemed to spring to full life
beyond the rein of reason,
I was just…thinking.
It was the place he had seen in the midst of the blizzard, the dark and booming place where some hideously familiar figure sought him down long corridors carpeted with jungle.
Beekman Tower.
Simile
a dreadnought of a woman
“What’s flattery?”
Is it lying for fun?”
Haha
Danny thought this place reminded her of somewhere else (the beak-man place) where she had been happy.
Clairvoyance
there were no bad thoughts.
isolation,
Simile
And in one of those flashes that sometimes came, he got a complete thought from her, one that floated above the confused, low-pitched babble
Haha
Haha - I’ll bet.
Roebuckers,
Smile!
It’s a noncontentious sort of meat.”
Haha
Danny giggled and then Hallorann said something (Sure you don’t want to go to Florida, doc?) to him, very clearly. He heard every word. He looked at Hallorann, startled and a little scared. Hallorann winked solemnly and turned back to the food.
Haha
Haha
“Mr. Hallorann,” Danny said, grinning. “Dick, to your friends.”
blackstrap molasses,
Yay! We ate 25 pounds of it (about two gallons) on our three-week canoe trip on the Chibougamou River.
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