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@@ -18,23 +18,20 @@ project: | |||
18 | link: treatise | 18 | link: treatise |
19 | ... | 19 | ... |
20 | 20 | ||
21 | He dropped the penny in the dryer, turned it on, and turned around. "What" he | 21 | He dropped the penny in the dryer, turned it on, and turned around. |
22 | called upstairs, pretending not to hear his mother's question over the noise | 22 | "What" he called upstairs, pretending not to hear his mother's question over the noise of the dryer. |
23 | of the dryer. He had heard her ask "Could you bring up my underwear from the | 23 | He had heard her ask "Could you bring up my underwear from the dryer" but didn't want to touch her underwear any more than he had to. |
24 | dryer" but didn't want to touch her underwear any more than he had to. "I | 24 | "I don't want to bring up your underwear" he said to himself, and walked back upstairs as his mother was calling down again for her underwear. |
25 | don't want to bring up your underwear" he said to himself, and walked back | ||
26 | upstairs as his mother was calling down again for her underwear. | ||
27 | 25 | ||
28 | "Did you get them" she asked when he opened the basement door to the kitchen. | 26 | "Did you get them" she asked when he opened the basement door to the kitchen. |
29 | She was sitting at the table playing dominoes. "Get what" he asked. She | 27 | She was sitting at the table playing dominoes. |
30 | peered at him and said "my underwear." | 28 | "Get what" he asked. |
29 | She peered at him and said "my underwear." | ||
31 | 30 | ||
32 | "Oh I didn't see them" he answered. He reflexively opened the refrigerator, | 31 | "Oh I didn't see them" he answered. |
33 | reflexively bent down, reflexively tried to feign non-disappointment | 32 | He reflexively opened the refrigerator, reflexively bent down, reflexively tried to feign non-disappointment (appointment? he thought) at seeing the same disappointing empty pickle jar, old head of lettuce, crusty mayonnaise he'd seen already on the way down to switch his laundry over. |
34 | (appointment? he thought) at seeing the same disappointing empty pickle jar, | 33 | "Paul" she said in that way that means Look at me. |
35 | old head of lettuce, crusty mayonnaise he'd seen already on the way down to | ||
36 | switch his laundry over. "Paul" she said in that way that means Look at me. | ||
37 | Paul looked at her. | 34 | Paul looked at her. |
38 | 35 | ||
39 | "You had to get them out of the dryer to put your clothes in. Where did you | 36 | "You had to get them out of the dryer to put your clothes in. |
40 | put them?" | 37 | Where did you put them?" |