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  1. foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men
  2. He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
  3. It faced or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant, & then concentrated on YOU with an irresistible prejudice in your favor
  4. I have an idea that [he] himself didn't believe it would come and perhaps he no longer cared.
  5. .. ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . like that ashen figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.
  6. the blocks of the sidewalk formed a ladder ... if he climbed alone, once there he could gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.
  7. ... her voice came over the wire as something fresh and cool as if a divot from a green golf links had come sailing in at the office window
  8. [her] house had always seemed to him more mysterious than other houses so his idea of the city itself, was pervaded with a melancholy beauty
  9. stayed there a week, walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together through the November night ...
  10. stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him.
  11. ... the sun which, as it sank lower, seemed to spread itself in benediction over the vanishing city where she had drawn her breath.
  12. Then there were bloody towels upon the bathroom floor, and women's voices scolding, and high over the confusion a long broken wail of pain.
  13. now the opera of voices pitches a key higher. Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.
  14. People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere & then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away
  15. ... there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
  16. The wind had blown off leaving a loud bright night w/a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life.
  17. some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens and then sank down himself into eternal blindness
  18. ... was glad a little later when he noticed a change in the room, a blue quickening by the window, and realized that dawn wasn't far off.
  19. One autumn night, when the leaves were falling, .. they came to a place where there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moonlight.
  20. Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year.