Teddy

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"From what I gather, you've acquired certain information, through meditation, that's given you some conviction that in your last incarnation you were a holy man in India, but more or less fell from Grace—"†

5 uses

Apparently he's a teacher himself.†

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I would have had to take another body and come back to earth again anyway-I mean I wasn't so spiritually advanced that I could have died, if I hadn't met that lady, and then gone straight to Brahma and never again have to come back to earth.†

1 use

Not continuously or anything, but fairly often.†

1 use

Viciously, with more of a whimper than a sigh, he foot-pushed his top sheet clear of his ankles, as though any kind of coverlet was suddenly too much for his sunburned, debilitated-looking body to bear.†

1 use

That deck steward Booper despises had it on his blackboard.†

1 use

It was, of course, a normal, adult-size deck chair, and he looked distinctly small in it, but at the same time, he looked perfectly relaxed, even serene.†

1 use

The young man had a kind of poise about him, though, that looked as though it might hold up indefinitely, with the very small proviso that he keep at least one hand in one pocket.†

2 uses

"Over there," Booper said, indicating no direction at all.†

1 use

I didn't say anything was inevitable, that way.†

1 use

His head was propped up just enough to rest uncomfortably, almost masochistically, against the very base of the headboard.†

1 use

Mr. McArdle played leading roles on no fewer than three daytime radio serials when he was in New York, and he had what might be called a third-class leading man's speaking voice: narcissistically deep and resonant, functionally prepared at a moment's notice to outmale anyone in the same room with it, if necessary even a small boy.†

1 use

1 use

Below the Sports Deck, on the broad, after end of the Sun Deck, uncompromisingly alfresco, were some seventy-five or more deck chairs, set up and aligned seven or eight rows deep, with aisles just wide enough for the deck steward to use without unavoidably tripping over the sunning passengers' paraphernalia knitting bags, dust-jacketed novels, bottles of sun-tan lotion, cameras.†

1 use

Finished tying his sneaker lace, Teddy perfunctorily gave his mother a kiss on the cheek.†

1 use

He was dressed, for the most part, in Eastern seaboard regimentals: a turf haircut on top, run-down brogues on the bottom, with a somewhat mixed uniform in between—buff-colored woolen socks, charcoal-gray trousers, a button-down-collar shirt, no necktie, and a herringbone jacket that looked as though it had been properly aged in some of the more popular postgraduate seminars at Yale, or Harvard, or Princeton.†

1 use

During this little exchange, Teddy had faced around and resumed looking out of the porthole.†

1 use

He stretched out his bare, unsuntanned legs, feet together, on the leg rest, and, almost simultaneously, took a small, ten-cent notebook out of his right hip pocket.†

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"I think that smacks of the worst kind of sophistry, frankly," he said, exhaling smoke.†

1 use

Not a minute later, though, he turned up, obtrusively vertical, among the deck-chair ranks.†