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Despite no education, Mrs. Finn always is more in charge of word meanings than I am. She is especially in charge of Good and Bad. My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster’s or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.
Nowadays! she said. What does that mean? I guess you think you’re kind of brand-new. You’re not so brand-new. The telephone was brand-new. The airplane was brand-new. You’ve been seen on earth before.
He had a copy of Camus’s The Rebel in his inside pocket which he showed her for identification purposes.
