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That dog can sleep through any amount of judicious caresses.
I had to find some way of protecting him (from those hunters). In Rocinante there was a box of red Kleenex that someone had given me as a present. I wrapped Charley's tail in red Kleenex and fastened it with rubber bands.
It seemed to me that a Long Island poodle who had made his devoirs to Sequoia sempervirens or Sequoia gigantea might be set apart from other dogs - might even be like that Galahad who saw the Grail. ... The experience might even drive him mad. I had thought of that. On the other hand, it might make of him a consummate bore.
Charley got a sneezing fit, as all dogs do when the nose is elevated too high.

There seemed to be no cure for loneliness save only being alone.
Having a companion fixes you in time and that the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present, and future all flow together.
My reactions thickened. ... I believe that subtleties of feeling began to disappear until finally I was on a pleasure-pain basis. The it occurred to me that the delicate shades of feeling, of reaction, are the result of communication, and without such communication they tend to disappear.

It seemed to give the journey a design, and everything in the world must have design or the human mind rejects it. But in addition it must have purpose or the human conscience shies away from it.
If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere but doesn't greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction.
It is very strange that when you set a goal for yourself, it is hard not to hold toward it even if it is inconvenient and not even desirable. {c.f. Belloc}
Near Abingdon, in the dog-leg of Virginia, at four o'clock of a windy afternoon, without warning or good-by or kiss my foot, my journey went away and left me stranded far from home.

__ 'the grape's holy blood'; "It's like we was in a bucket of ghosts."; 'in retort of time'
veronica: A maneuver in bullfighting; Hollanderize; gila monster; Mandeville; John Birch Society; hame bells;

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