He marvels at how "its high, somewhat stiff collar against my neck, the wide cuffs touching my wrists, the rich material against my skin excited a sense of strangeness and distinction; I felt like some nobleman, some Spanish grandee. But when i looked in the mirror it was no remote aristocrat i had become, no character out of daydreams. i was Phineas, Phineas to the life." Chapter 5, pg. 62
"I don't know, I must have lost my balance. It must have been that. I did have this idea, this feeling that you were standing there beside me, y-I don't know, I had a kinda of feeling. But you cant say anything for sure from just feelings. And this feeling doesn't make any sense. It was a crazy idea, I must have been delirious. So I just have to forget it. I just fell" Finney(Chapter 5 Page 66)
"I didn't trust myself in [sports], and I didn't trust anyone else. It was as though...boxers were in combat to the death, as though even a tennis ball might turn into a bullet. This didn't seem completely crazy imagination in 1942, when jumping out of trees stood for abandoning a torpedoed ship. Later, in the school swimming pool, we were given the second stage in that rehearsal: after you hit the water you made big splashes with your hands, to scatter the flaming oil which would be on the surface (ch.6 pp. 76-77).”
"The effect of his injury on the masters seemed deeper than after other disasters I remembered there. It was as though they felt it was especially unfair that it should strike one of the sixteen-year-olds, one of the few young men who could be free and happy in the summer of 1942"
His eyes continued their roaming across my face. "I don't know, I Must have just lost my balance. It must have been that. I did have this idea, this feeling that when you were standing there beside me, y-I don't know, I had a kind of feeling. But you cant say anything for sure from just feelings. And this feeling doesn't make any sense. It was a crazy idea, I must have been delirious. So I just have to forget it. I just fell"
"As I had to do whenever I glimpsed this river, I thought of Phineas. Not of the tree and pain, but of one of his favorite tricks, Phineas in exaltation, balancing on one foot on the prow of a conoe like a river guard, his raised arms invoking the air to support him, face transfigured, body a complex set of balances and compensations, each this supreme fantasy of achievement, his skin glowing from immersions, his whole body hanging between river and sku as though he had transcended gravity and might by gently pushing upward with his foot glide and might higher and remain suspended in space..." (pg. 75)
"...I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of phineas (85)."
"I just fell," his eyes were vaguely on my face, "something jiggled and I fell over. I remember I turned around and looked at you, it was like I had all the time in the world. I thought I could reach out and get hold of you."
"If Phineas had been sitting here in this pool of guilt, how would he have felt, what would he have done? He would have told the truth." Chapter 5, page 66
"But when I looked in the mirror it was no remote aristocrat I had become, no character out of daydreams. I was Phineas, Phineas to the life. I even had his humorous experession in my face, his sharp, optimistic awareness. I had no idea why this gave me such intense relief, but it seemed, standing in Finny's triumphant shirt, that I would never stumble through the confusions of my own character" p.62
"It was as though they felt it was especially unfair that it should strike one of the sixteen-year-olds, one of the few young men who could be free and happy in the summer of 1942.(61)"
"I thought the issue was settled until at the end he said, listen pal, if i can't play sports your're going to play them for me, and i lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that the this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.
“Bit I had known Finny in an impersonal dormitory, a gym, a playing field. In the room we shared at Devon many strangers had lived before us, and many would afterward. It was there that I had done, but it was here that I would have to tell it. I felt like a wild man who had stumbled in from the jungle to tear the place apart.” (pg. 69)
But I had known Finny in a impersonal dormitory, a gym, a playing field. In the room we shared at Devon many strangers had lived before us, and many would afterward. It was there that I had done it, but it was here that I would have to tell it. I felt like a wild man who had stumbled in from the jungle to tear up the place.
"This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but that they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pigmies while you were looking the other way.
The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary from age, enfeebled, dry. I was thankful, very thankful that I had seen it. So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all-plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change. Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.
Changed, I headed back through the mud. I was drenched; anybody could see it was time to come in out of the rain."
So to Phineas I said, "I'm too busy for sports," and he went into his incoherent groans and jumbles of words, and I thought the issue was settled until at the end he said, "Listen, pal, if i can't play sports, you're going to play them for me," and I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.
"I had no idea why this gave me such intense relief, but it seemed, standing there in Finny's triumphant shirt, that I would never stumble through the confusions of my own character again" (62).
"I spent as much time as I could alone in our room, trying to empty my mind of every thought, to forget where I was, even who I was. One evening when I was dressing for dinner, in this numbered frame of mid, and idea occurred to me, the first with any energy behind it since Finny fell from the tree.(62)"
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He marvels at how "its high, somewhat stiff collar against my neck, the wide cuffs touching my wrists, the rich material against my skin excited a sense of strangeness and distinction; I felt like some nobleman, some Spanish grandee. But when i looked in the mirror it was no remote aristocrat i had become, no character out of daydreams. i was Phineas, Phineas to the life." Chapter 5, pg. 62
"Not say anything about it! When you broke the school record!"
"Shhhh!" He shot a blazing agited glance at me. pg. 44
"I don't know, I must have lost my balance. It must have been that. I did have this idea, this feeling that you were standing there beside me, y-I don't know, I had a kinda of feeling. But you cant say anything for sure from just feelings. And this feeling doesn't make any sense. It was a crazy idea, I must have been delirious. So I just have to forget it. I just fell" Finney(Chapter 5 Page 66)
"I didn't trust myself in [sports], and I didn't trust anyone else. It was as though...boxers were in combat to the death, as though even a tennis ball might turn into a bullet. This didn't seem completely crazy imagination in 1942, when jumping out of trees stood for abandoning a torpedoed ship. Later, in the school swimming pool, we were given the second stage in that rehearsal: after you hit the water you made big splashes with your hands, to scatter the flaming oil which would be on the surface (ch.6 pp. 76-77).”
"The effect of his injury on the masters seemed deeper than after other disasters I remembered there. It was as though they felt it was especially unfair that it should strike one of the sixteen-year-olds, one of the few young men who could be free and happy in the summer of 1942"
Fitret Yitayew
Page 61
His eyes continued their roaming across my face. "I don't know, I Must have just lost my balance. It must have been that. I did have this idea, this feeling that when you were standing there beside me, y-I don't know, I had a kind of feeling. But you cant say anything for sure from just feelings. And this feeling doesn't make any sense. It was a crazy idea, I must have been delirious. So I just have to forget it. I just fell"
Finney
Chapter 5, page 66
Rudi Dunlap
"Listen, Finny, I don't care about being a big man in the campus or anything."
Ch. 6
p.84
"'I was thinking about you... and the accident.' 'There's loyalty for you. To think about me when you were on vacation.'"
chapter 5 pg 69
"As I had to do whenever I glimpsed this river, I thought of Phineas. Not of the tree and pain, but of one of his favorite tricks, Phineas in exaltation, balancing on one foot on the prow of a conoe like a river guard, his raised arms invoking the air to support him, face transfigured, body a complex set of balances and compensations, each this supreme fantasy of achievement, his skin glowing from immersions, his whole body hanging between river and sku as though he had transcended gravity and might by gently pushing upward with his foot glide and might higher and remain suspended in space..." (pg. 75)
"...I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of phineas (85)."
"I felt like a wild man who stumbled in from a jungle to tear the place a part." pg. 69
"I just fell," his eyes were vaguely on my face, "something jiggled and I fell over. I remember I turned around and looked at you, it was like I had all the time in the world. I thought I could reach out and get hold of you."
Page 65
Jimmy Rose
"If Phineas had been sitting here in this pool of guilt, how would he have felt, what would he have done?
He would have told the truth." Chapter 5, page 66
"But when I looked in the mirror it was no remote aristocrat I had become, no character out of daydreams. I was Phineas, Phineas to the life. I even had his humorous experession in my face, his sharp, optimistic awareness. I had no idea why this gave me such intense relief, but it seemed, standing in Finny's triumphant shirt, that I would never stumble through the confusions of my own character" p.62
" Oh you Know Finny" I didn't, I was pretty sure I didn't know finny at all. P 63
Alex Worcester
"It was as though they felt it was especially unfair that it should strike one of the sixteen-year-olds, one of the few young men who could be free and happy in the summer of 1942.(61)"
Rob
"I thought the issue was settled until at the end he said, listen pal, if i can't play sports your're going to play them for me, and i lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that the this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.
page 85
“Bit I had known Finny in an impersonal dormitory, a gym, a playing field. In the room we shared at Devon many strangers had lived before us, and many would afterward. It was there that I had done, but it was here that I would have to tell it. I felt like a wild man who had stumbled in from the jungle to tear the place apart.” (pg. 69)
But I had known Finny in a impersonal dormitory, a gym, a playing field. In the room we shared at Devon many strangers had lived before us, and many would afterward. It was there that I had done it, but it was here that I would have to tell it. I felt like a wild man who had stumbled in from the jungle to tear up the place.
Chapter 5 Page 68
"Listen Finny, I don't care about being a big man on campus or anything." P. 84
Figured I would chime in:
"This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but that they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pigmies while you were looking the other way.
The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary from age, enfeebled, dry. I was thankful, very thankful that I had seen it. So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all-plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change. Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.
Changed, I headed back through the mud. I was drenched; anybody could see it was time to come in out of the rain."
pg. 14
-Mr. Perkins
So to Phineas I said, "I'm too busy for sports," and he went into his incoherent groans and jumbles of words, and I thought the issue was settled until at the end he said, "Listen, pal, if i can't play sports, you're going to play them for me," and I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.
"To drag me down too!" On Page 65, said by Gene.
"I had no idea why this gave me such intense relief, but it seemed, standing there in Finny's triumphant shirt, that I would never stumble through the confusions of my own character again" (62).
"I spent as much time as I could alone in our room, trying to empty my mind of every thought, to forget where I was, even who I was. One evening when I was dressing for dinner, in this numbered frame of mid, and idea occurred to me, the first with any energy behind it since Finny fell from the tree.(62)"
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