All the bystanders were horrified, and asked him what he could mean by such brutal and inhuman conduct | So blessed and overjoyed, Love even forgot to ask the elder where they were going |
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He came to his father and told him what he had achieved | Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat |
Eighty years I have been chasing happiness away from me, and it was useless to me.
He could not withdraw it no matter how hard he tried | Love was the only one who stayed |
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Most of the pieces in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the fifteen or so years beginning in 1929 when he published The Sound and the Fury | But one day, when he turned 80, something unbelievable happened |
This fence will never be the same again.
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