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times, armed with the judge’ s shotgun, I dared beard the terrors of the terrace”( 96). When I awoke in the morning“ I never failed to discover … something unlocked, unlatched, a little loose, a little ajar, something sly and suspicious-looking”( 97). I would often feel something unlatched or a little loose within my own mind as well. Like a“ sensation of odd instability as if parts of the everyday, smoothly running world had got unscrewed, and you became aware that one of your tires was rolling beside you, or that your steering wheel had come off”( 166). Do I need a steering wheel for today’ s match? If so I’ ll need run home to“ the Institute for the Criminal Insane, ici, good dog”( 295). Did you see that dog? I want the gold dog.
Team Transitory Nature: Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Slow and steady always wins the race in life, and that is what will secure the spot of first for me in this tournament. My name is John Shade and I will be reading excerpts to you from a poem broken into four cantos( boyhood, adolescence, married life, and old age). In canto one line five I said“ and from the inside, too, I’ d duplicate myself”( 33). This refers to changes and stages of life as duplications of yourself. One person morphing into various forms of themselves. This is also true of our subconscious as“ I once overheard myself awakening while half of me still slept in bed. I tore my spirit free, and caught up with myself – upon the lawn where clover leaves cupped the topaz of dawn, and where Shade stood in nightshirt and one shoe”( 65). The spirit or soul is something that grows and changes over
times, armed with the judge’ s shotgun, I dared beard the terrors of the terrace”( 96). When I awoke in the morning“ I never failed to discover … something unlocked, unlatched, a little loose, a little ajar, something sly and suspicious-looking”( 97). I would often feel something unlatched or a little loose within my own mind as well. Like a“ sensation of odd instability as if parts of the everyday, smoothly running world had got unscrewed, and you became aware that one of your tires was rolling beside you, or that your steering wheel had come off”( 166). Do I need a steering wheel for today’ s match? If so I’ ll need run home to“ the Institute for the Criminal Insane, ici, good dog”( 295). Did you see that dog? I want the gold dog.
Team Transitory Nature: Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Slow and steady always wins the race in life, and that is what will secure the spot of first for me in this tournament. My name is John Shade and I will be reading excerpts to you from a poem broken into four cantos( boyhood, adolescence, married life, and old age). In canto one line five I said“ and from the inside, too, I’ d duplicate myself”( 33). This refers to changes and stages of life as duplications of yourself. One person morphing into various forms of themselves. This is also true of our subconscious as“ I once overheard myself awakening while half of me still slept in bed. I tore my spirit free, and caught up with myself – upon the lawn where clover leaves cupped the topaz of dawn, and where Shade stood in nightshirt and one shoe”( 65). The spirit or soul is something that grows and changes over