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Or maybe he means in a richer world the begging population is melting away. But no to that too. So maybe, perhaps, he means there aren't many 'human b...more

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Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow fal...more

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The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.

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The mosquitos were gone from the porch, and surely when they abandoned the conflict the war with Time was really done, there was nothing for it but th...more

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The sidewalks were haunted by dustghosts all night as the furnace wind summoned them up,swung them about, and gentled them down in a warm spice onthe ...more

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I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under every tree is a shadow, ...more

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No,” moaned Tom in despair. “School. School straight on ahead! Why, why do dime stores show things like that in windows before summer’s even over! Rui...more

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And they left the mellow light of the dandelion wine and went upstairs to carry out the last few rituals of summer, for they felt that now the final d...more

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June dawns, July noons, August evenings over, finished, done, and gone forever with only the sense of it all left here in his head. Now, a whole autum...more

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and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,

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Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The ma...more

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For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...

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Summer quiet thoughts on summer quiet noons.

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Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

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First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But one strange year, halloween came early....don't you ditch me...more