"Ill make sure you get the books. Confucius say if man want to grow one row of corn, first must shovel one ton of shit. The movement ended the uneasy truce with the pain in his legs and the drug-need in his nerves, but it also diffused his terror a little. From the eighth of April until the fourteenth they enjoyed an unbroken run of fine weather.
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He had asked his mother where the bird came from and when she said Africa he had understood it was doomed to die in the cage where it lived, far away from wherever God had meant it to be, and he cried and his mother bought him an ice-cream cone and for awhile he had stopped crying and then he remembered and started again and so she had taken him home, telling him as they rode the trolley back to Lynn that he was a bawl-baby and a sissy. What youre talking about is called a deus ex machina, the God from the machine, first used in Greek amphitheaters.