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unearths some literary gems.
From The Penciled Frown, by James Gray:
***Her attitude was paradoxically one of animated inattention.***"I won the Somebody-or-other prize for this or that at art school."***Timothy tightened his smile as though he feared to have it slip from him.***Timothy faced the typewriter with dull resentment. Too obviously the thing had no poetry in its nature.***Almost instinctively he looked about for something to tap with an emphatic forefinger.***the eternal temptation of the dimly perceived***She shrugged her shoulders, catching the movement midway as though to conserve energy.***He covered his sheet with vacuous faces all turned to the left as though toward some Mecca of the amateur portraiteur.***"You see, I'm something or other in disguise, going about doing good deeds."***And turning abruptly she went out of the room and to Europe.***"It's damn funny if you look at it that way."[....]Things which were damned funny if you looked at them that way continued to happen.***
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