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You worry about a problem, and worry and worry, until finally you do something, it doesn’t matter what, right or wrong, sensible or stupid, and the relief that comes from action is so great you just relax right down into sleep.
Since Lake Erie water can eat through a human body in under three minutes, a wood or aluminum boat in ten and a steel hull in twenty-five, this resort couldn’t offer much by way of the usual swimming and boating.
Arousal is only to the point when the mind and emotions agree with the body,
“A lot of thirty-year-old men have temporary jobs. The difference is, I know it.”
George soon found the Ace shirt, which Katharine put on over her own blouse, leaving it unbuttoned, and in which she looked absolutely wonderful. I have often envied women the wider range of wearing apparel permitted them by society; there have been windy days, for instance, when there was nothing more rational for me to wear on my head than a scarf, but even if I’d gone ahead and worn one (I never have) I know I wouldn’t have looked wonderful in it, I’d simply have looked foolish. Katharine in her Ace shirt, though, looked so terrific I just wanted to stand there and gaze at her and smile,
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The only reason I’m driving a cab is because my father had one around the house. I take the path of least resistance. You don’t. This whole journey is you taking the path of most resistance.”
The discussion in back had worn itself down to a smooth eroded artifact, a kind of separate third presence back there, slowly fading into a ghost; to haunt them?
