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Your method, Homer, of putting wet shoes on a windowsill where they might be dried by the faint appearance, albeit rare, of the Maine sun, is admirable for its positivism, its determined optimism. Larch would look at it often. rds he might make the words true for _him,_ for Homer Wells: I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go [380] by me. ) Should he tell Larch that he had learned the real purpose of the drive-in? Wasn't it to tease onese

And Wally's face? Wilbur Larch was thinking. ame? And tennis trophies, and old yearbooks and the ticket stubs tucked into the molding of the mirror (from the first mov No one (including his grown children and his grandchildren) called him any-[26] thing but Professor. y falling from trees or by trees falling on them, one saw the high, orderly stacks of fresh-cut boards drying out in the hazy sun.