The Bell Jar

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which he only did because he was trying to prove he could be aesthetic in spite of being a medical student.

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Somehow, in the broad, shadowless light of noon, the water looked amiable and welcoming.

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The nurse went on blithely opening and shutting my drawers, emptying the closet and folding my belongings into the black overnight case.

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These cadavers were so unhuman-looking they didn't bother me a bit.

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Would Evelyn discern that Gladys knew Roger in her past?

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We passed Joan, coming out of her room, and I gave her a meaning, disdainful smile, and she ducked back and waited until we had gone by.

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A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky.

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Doreen extricated a black scrap from her bundle and dropped it in my lap.

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I discovered quite by accident what an awful hypocrite he [Buddy Willard] was,

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Of course, I didn't believe in life after death or the virgin birth or the Inquisition or the infallibility of that little monkey-faced Pope or anything, but I didn't have to let the priest see this, I could just concentrate on my sin, and he would help me repent.

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I thought it was quite ingenious of me to suggest sitting in on the chemistry course even after I'd changed over to Shakespeare.

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I am neurotic.

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"Why?" I persisted.

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She looked loving and reproachful, and I wanted her to go away.

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He even seemed relieved to have somebody to tell about how he was seduced.

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I sat in one of those hushed plush auditoriums in the UN, next to a stern muscular Russian girl with no makeup who was a simultaneous interpreter like Constantin,

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