PARTISAN REVIEW
doll appeared to him dimly. Impulsively he reached out and snatched
the doll from the child as he ran past her, into the dusty brilliance
of the road. He ran as fast as he could up the steep and irregular
dirt road with the wailing child running behind him, feeling only a
need of hanging onto the child's grotesque play-thing till he was alone
somewhere and able to cry.
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