Excerpt: ...a man who could not bear pain and adversity had a "yellow streak" in him. He had once had a painful operation performed without an anesthetic, and he now told himself that he simply must master the things within and without him which had combined to overthrow him. He ground his teeth together. He clenched his fingers till the nails of some of them broke. He closed his eyes. He tried to imagine that he was becoming drowsy and that he would soon sleep, but a Pg 212 thousand pictures floated through his brain and ...
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Excerpt: ...a man who could not bear pain and adversity had a "yellow streak" in him. He had once had a painful operation performed without an anesthetic, and he now told himself that he simply must master the things within and without him which had combined to overthrow him. He ground his teeth together. He clenched his fingers till the nails of some of them broke. He closed his eyes. He tried to imagine that he was becoming drowsy and that he would soon sleep, but a Pg 212 thousand pictures floated through his brain and dug themselves in like burrowing animals. Chief among them was a view of Whaley striding about the Square, uttering slobbering anathemas against him. Another scene was that of Tilly's receiving the revelation he himself had shrunk from making. He saw the blight fall on her bonny face and her calm and inevitable consent to abandon him forever. And yet how could he bear that
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Very Good. No Jacket. pp. 427. 36045 shelf. Black-stamped blue cloth. Slight odor from a smoker's home. Inked name FEP, clean text. No dust jacket. Surrealistic b/w frontispiece: giant transparent hand descending from the hand.