Once we got to eating, the idea of happiness returned to me. Not the feeling, the idea. Would a regular girl be happy simply eating a hot meal with a great deal of chew to it? Maybe happiness is a simple thing. Maybe it's as simple as the salty taste of pork, and the vast deal of chewing in it, and how, when the chew is gone, you can still scrape at the bone with your bottom teeth and suck at the marrow.
I delight to come to my bearings,__ot walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place, but to walk even with the Builder of the universe, if I may,__ot to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sit thoughtfully while it goes by. What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator. I love to weigh, to settle, to gravitate toward that which most strongly and rightfully attracts me;__ot hang by the beam of the scale and try to weigh less,__ot suppose a case, but take the case that is
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I delight to come to my bearings,__ot walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place, but to walk even with the Builder of the universe, if I may,__ot to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sit thoughtfully while it goes by. What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator. I love to weigh, to settle, to gravitate toward that which most strongly and rightfully attracts me;__ot hang by the beam of the scale and try to weigh less,__ot suppose a case, but take the case that is
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