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"I've been throwing the ball against the wall for several nights in a row now.
Usually I go down after the late news and place myself in a corner where there are no windows, illuminated only by a single light bulb.
There's something very good about throwing. I don't quite know what it is. More people ought to throw. We ought to be throwing, every one of us. Things would look different then. We would be happier."

" 'Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice,' said the troop-horse. 'Anybody can be forgiven for being scared in the night, I think, if they see things they don't understand. We've broken out of our pickets, again and again, just because a new recruit got to telling tales of whip-snaked at home in Australia until we were scared to death of the loose ends of our head-ropes.' "