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PARTISAN REVIEW
from our eyes-to stare out over the rolling windy lake which we
knew to be as vast and awful as the ocean.
My brother stopped and tossed a stone into the water. "Isn't
it funny how far away all that seems," he said,-"how unim–
portant."
"Yes," I said. I felt good, and I knew my brother did too,
and I was hungry and had a good appetite. The day was warm and
lovely now and we could have stayed out longer, but I was anxious
to get back to our friend's house, where I knew the dinner that
awaited us would be a good one.
A LETTER TO HITLER
Last winter we were
a burning page went
short of firewood and
up with the draft and
it was good and cold
we found they would
so we used a lot of
smolder a long time
old books that were
after you thought the
in the attic just old
fire was all out and
novels nobody would
then suddenly burst
ever want to read but
into flame
&
another
we found they made
thing they made ashes
plenty of heat and
that wouldn't stay in
twice they set the
the grate but floated
chimney afire when
out all over the room!
James Laughlin
