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I thought they would help me

"Listen, what did you call us up for?" Hogan said. He was talking in an obstinate, rhythmic way that meant he was going to bust out crying any minute. "Why did you get in touch with the A.A. at all, if you were just going to get drunk anyway?"

"I needed help," explained Mr. McAfee, "and I though…

—p.175 Slow Learner: Early Stories The Secret Integration (139) by Thomas Pynchon
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holding up a carton of milk

It had been a year before, in the early fall, a little past the opening of school. Hogan had come over to Tim's house right after supper, and the sky was still light, though the sun was down, and they had been out in Tim's back yard shooting baskets. Or Tim was: Hogan had had this conflict of commi…

—p.166 The Secret Integration (139) by Thomas Pynchon
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gambrel

Like Grover's house, the Big Houses of the estates also had faces, but without such plain, gambreled honesty

—p.158 The Secret Integration (139) by Thomas Pynchon
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the scaled-up world adults made

[...] one night they'd had a serious division of views over Berlin. "I know what they ought to do," Grover yelled (he always yelled — at walls, at anything else solid that happened to be around -to let you know it wasn't you he was mad at but something else, something to do with the scaled-up world…

—p.143 Under the Rose (99) by Thomas Pynchon
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the scaled-up world adults made

[...] one night they'd had a serious division of views over Berlin. "I know what they ought to do," Grover yelled (he always yelled — at walls, at anything else solid that happened to be around -to let you know it wasn't you he was mad at but something else, something to do with the scaled-up world…

—p.143 Under the Rose (99) by Thomas Pynchon