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...place even had castellated edging around the rim of a flat roof and an obviously home-made, handy-andy porch pretending to be a gate-house; every man's home his castle. Note to monograph; Reminiscent of old Mr. Wemmick in Great Expectations with his miniature castle, moat, and drawbridge. Home-made: There were efforts to make house homes like the initialled screen doors on plain white houses the mill had built not far away...
...lady says: "Yessir my son he was sittin right on this porch right in that chair where you are and he'd been feeling right down, stayed out of work. Well suddenly he just started vomiting this black blood. He started vomiting and it was all black blood. They took him to the hospital and his heart, it stopped. They hooked him up to one of these machines, heart and lung, you know. He had all these tubes and wires coming out of him. After that they said he suffered from brain damage...
Things aren't simple; Fairntosh wasn't white and didn't have columns. It was a beautiful shade of yellow, and beside it was a bed of trained yellow roses, and above it were those tremendous oaks. It was actually built too early to have columns, and its porch stood out instead with sober Federalist dignity...
Confidently, disparagingly, she sketches the obvious alternatives. Should one perpetuate oneself at the tube end of "life-supporting" devices? Obscene. Should one rock out one's days (at $50 per) on the porch of a nursing home? "I'd rather put a bullet through my head...
...That prospect seemed to bother the frustrated legislator not at all. "You sit around the Senate for years and think of what you could do; you shoot your mouth off," says Saxbe. "Then they hand you the ball. You can't go home and sit on the porch...