Chapter VII · Chapter 7

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

on the subject of; concerning

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

(music) a composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and gracefully)

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

farther along in physical or mental development

From this reading For atheists like her there were just ideas to be posited as if raising these walls, these labyrinths of logic, and then running in them, would lead her to some advanced destination.

a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

the form of “be” used with “I”

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading She meant that she needed to imagine a tranquil and permanent entity, God, by which to ease her pain, and yet being an atheist there was none.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

any thing at all

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

someone who does not believe in the existence of a god

From this reading She meant that she needed to imagine a tranquil and permanent entity, God, by which to ease her pain, and yet being an atheist there was none.

plural of “atheist” — someone who does not believe in the existence of a god

From this reading For atheists like her there were just ideas to be posited as if raising these walls, these labyrinths of logic, and then running in them, would lead her to some advanced destination.

plural of “bag” — a flexible container with a single opening

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

providing no shelter or sustenance

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading For atheists like her there were just ideas to be posited as if raising these walls, these labyrinths of logic, and then running in them, would lead her to some advanced destination.

enter or assume a certain state or condition

From this reading And so she posited that man, being such a dodger of pain, would inevitably become religious within sickness.

earlier than; in front of

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

at or toward the back of something

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

the -ing form of “be”

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

plural of “body” — the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

showing who or what does the action

From this reading She meant that she needed to imagine a tranquil and permanent entity, God, by which to ease her pain, and yet being an atheist there was none.

experiencing motion sickness

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

become or cause to become obstructed

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

absence of light or illumination

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)

From this reading For atheists like her there were just ideas to be posited as if raising these walls, these labyrinths of logic, and then running in them, would lead her to some advanced destination.

true confidential information

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

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From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

causing an emotional disturbance

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

separated in space or coming from or going to a distance

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

a shifty deceptive person

From this reading And so she posited that man, being such a dodger of pain, would inevitably become religious within sickness.

pull, as against a resistance

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid)

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

A series of thoughts, images, or emotions during sleep.

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

earlier in time; previously

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

move gently or carefully

From this reading She meant that she needed to imagine a tranquil and permanent entity, God, by which to ease her pain, and yet being an atheist there was none.

make void or empty of contents

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

(physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

lack of vitality

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

From this reading She meant that she needed to imagine a tranquil and permanent entity, God, by which to ease her pain, and yet being an atheist there was none.

an alloy of copper and nickel with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient; used as resistance wire

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

all the members of a group, with none left out

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

all things; all of a situation

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

opinion or judgment

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading For atheists like her there were just ideas to be posited as if raising these walls, these labyrinths of logic, and then running in them, would lead her to some advanced destination.

prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions

From this reading She meant that she needed to imagine a tranquil and permanent entity, God, by which to ease her pain, and yet being an atheist there was none.

the solid part of the earth's surface

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading She meant that she needed to imagine a tranquil and permanent entity, God, by which to ease her pain, and yet being an atheist there was none.

in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

a period of time assigned for work

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

temporary military shelter

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

pathological sensitivity

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

plural of “idea” — the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

on condition that; in the event that

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case

From this reading She meant that she needed to imagine a tranquil and permanent entity, God, by which to ease her pain, and yet being an atheist there was none.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

unable to move or resist motion

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

in such a manner as could not be otherwise

From this reading And so she posited that man, being such a dodger of pain, would inevitably become religious within sickness.

organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

and nothing more

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

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From this reading For atheists like her there were just ideas to be posited as if raising these walls, these labyrinths of logic, and then running in them, would lead her to some advanced destination.

the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

take somebody somewhere

From this reading For atheists like her there were just ideas to be posited as if raising these walls, these labyrinths of logic, and then running in them, would lead her to some advanced destination.

go away from a place

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

the act of departing

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

of comparatively little physical weight or density

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

prefer or wish to do something

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference

From this reading For atheists like her there were just ideas to be posited as if raising these walls, these labyrinths of logic, and then running in them, would lead her to some advanced destination.

the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)

From this reading And so she posited that man, being such a dodger of pain, would inevitably become religious within sickness.

inflected form of “mean” — mean or intend to express or convey

From this reading She meant that she needed to imagine a tranquil and permanent entity, God, by which to ease her pain, and yet being an atheist there was none.

(Old Testament) the guardian archangel of the Jews

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

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From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

a condition requiring relief

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

necessary for relief or supply

From this reading She meant that she needed to imagine a tranquil and permanent entity, God, by which to ease her pain, and yet being an atheist there was none.

not any; not one

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

not one, and not any

From this reading She meant that she needed to imagine a tranquil and permanent entity, God, by which to ease her pain, and yet being an atheist there was none.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

moving to a position on a surface

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

above and across; more than

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

extremely crowed or filled to capacity

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder

From this reading She meant that she needed to imagine a tranquil and permanent entity, God, by which to ease her pain, and yet being an atheist there was none.

causing physical or psychological pain

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

something determined in relation to something that includes it

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

(of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

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From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

past form of “posit” — put (something somewhere) firmly

From this reading For atheists like her there were just ideas to be posited as if raising these walls, these labyrinths of logic, and then running in them, would lead her to some advanced destination.

repeated heavy blows

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

the event of something being raised upward

From this reading For atheists like her there were just ideas to be posited as if raising these walls, these labyrinths of logic, and then running in them, would lead her to some advanced destination.

(used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church

From this reading And so she posited that man, being such a dodger of pain, would inevitably become religious within sickness.

To recall to mind.

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream

From this reading For atheists like her there were just ideas to be posited as if raising these walls, these labyrinths of logic, and then running in them, would lead her to some advanced destination.

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From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

unhealthy looking

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism

From this reading And so she posited that man, being such a dodger of pain, would inevitably become religious within sickness.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity

From this reading For atheists like her there were just ideas to be posited as if raising these walls, these labyrinths of logic, and then running in them, would lead her to some advanced destination.

a thing, without saying which

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

a male human offspring

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

the unlimited expanse in which everything is located

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

plural of “spring” — the season of growth

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

of the kind already mentioned

From this reading And so she posited that man, being such a dodger of pain, would inevitably become religious within sickness.

happening unexpectedly

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading She meant that she needed to imagine a tranquil and permanent entity, God, by which to ease her pain, and yet being an atheist there was none.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

From this reading For atheists like her there were just ideas to be posited as if raising these walls, these labyrinths of logic, and then running in them, would lead her to some advanced destination.

in or at that place or location

From this reading She meant that she needed to imagine a tranquil and permanent entity, God, by which to ease her pain, and yet being an atheist there was none.

the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

judge or regard; look upon; judge

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

the process of using your mind to consider something carefully

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

plural of “thought” — the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

(of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves

From this reading She meant that she needed to imagine a tranquil and permanent entity, God, by which to ease her pain, and yet being an atheist there was none.

hard to endure

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

the quality possessed by something that is unreal

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

plural of “wall” — an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure

From this reading For atheists like her there were just ideas to be posited as if raising these walls, these labyrinths of logic, and then running in them, would lead her to some advanced destination.

feel or have a desire for; want strongly

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

plural of “week” — any period of seven consecutive days

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading For atheists like her there were just ideas to be posited as if raising these walls, these labyrinths of logic, and then running in them, would lead her to some advanced destination.

at the time that

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading She meant that she needed to imagine a tranquil and permanent entity, God, by which to ease her pain, and yet being an atheist there was none.

used to talk about the future, or about willingness

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

in the company of; together with

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

inside; before a period of time has passed

From this reading Before this I was thinking of my son and now I am thinking about my thoughts…a concentration on anything to forefend this unreality of everything… every item in this dark tomb, and the air and light within it are so distant like trying to remember the details of a dream weeks earlier…brain insurrection, and stomach like when I was carsick with Michael in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, sick as when I was pregnant with Nathaniel Adagio Sangfroid…inert as if dead…dead as the owl plopping onto the ground…lack of energy…enervation not of being drained but like it just suddenly packed up its bags and went, leaving behind the barren house, now looking like a dilapidating hut…Need to think of something placid, pellucid, permanent."

used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

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From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.

but in spite of that

From this reading "…No," she thought, "those disconcerting eyes would not leave…will not leave…wouldn't want them to leave….He is here a part of my fate….Spots over my eyes, hypersensitivity to sound as well as light…ideas so painful, and yet I drag them about…pounding thoughts of raw sensitivity and I drag these sickly bodies to have something to do…and to clog the empty space of the hours.