Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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You are unable to establish a mental understanding or even an emotional understanding of the wind. Because it keeps coming stronger and stronger, it lifts your lighter limbs like your legs, and it keeps changing directions because you are rotating in a movement you are still unaware of. The terrific...
On an emotional level, you are trying to stand up. You really want to be able to say something to yourself. You want to be able to tell yourself you know something, to establish that the dropping feeling in your bowels means this-and-that in relation to your body...
People say they can jump without being afraid, which is quite true for them. If you were counting and think- ing the preplanned thoughts, you would probably be tensely exhilarted. But if you were aware of your environment, you would have to know that everything, including you, was unknown.
Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the anonymous roller that pressed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap.
"Do you think," she asks Tattersall severely, "this is a good environment for an idiot?"