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| 1 | 27 | It does not make much difference, of View more quotes about course">course. |
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| 1 | 24 | So perhaps then I should write of myself as an object, for that is what I now am, as a simple matter of fact, an object, no longer a person, that no longer, if I were once that, but an object, to be sure, a very particular object, but one of countless hundreds, perhaps thousands of such, I do not know, in many cities, and towns, and camps and villages, like me, a vital, sentient, so much alive, so vulnerable, essentially helpless, beautiful I am told, object. |
| 1 | 25 | Perhaps the next problem that she must solve is how to speak frankly, honestly, of her age. |
| 1 | 26 | In one world, in one reality, she was in her fifties. |
| 1 | 27 | It does not make much difference, of course. |
| 1 | 28 | She might have been in her forties, or in her sixties, or seventies, or such. |
| 1 | 29 | Such matters, recorded in the routes of a world about a star, calculated in the increments of calendars and clocks, constitute no more in themselves than the memoranda of convenience, taking their true significance only in their application to changes which might be noted with interest, the germination of the seed, the blind struggle from the earth, the response to the lure of light, the birth of the anxious bud, the bursting into beauty of the flower, the glory of the unfolding, exultant petals, and then the loss, the drying, and casting away, of the petals. |
| 1 | 30 | We count these things in hours, in days, in seasons, in years and years of years. |