make-believe
electrophobia
still moist behind the ears
vomiting a vocabulary of fear, hope, threat, despair.
A stark unhuman piece of flesh with a shark's hunger inside it."
A reptilian sorcery
Joy, then, become a mania
A free-and-easy atmosphere
puckering her forehead very importantly
You're like Jimmie was.
the wretchedness of garbled emotions
a flash of words, as if he were exploding into phrases
desperate surrender
Her kiss took the breath out of him.
a sudden lusty kinship
sensualism
glutting their beastly hungers
the vile dictates of their lower natures
abominable cruelties
a tear-damp handkerchief
a vivid-faced young woman 
neurasthenics


"Dreamers were scoundrels or lunatics who justify their unfitness for society _by ridiculing it as unworthy and by phantasizing over new values and _standards which would be more amiable to their weaknesses." deeper and more a part of his fiber debasing "his virtue derived in establishing its superiority by assisting spiritually in the punishment of the unvirtuous _mania for conformity" dubious integrity with elastic scruples and pliable consciences grown stern and audible, grown verbose and insistent, a sexlessness about her that inspired vulgarity A saturnalia of masks There's something odiously impersonal about them a tenuous fugitive figure "vivid eyes, dark lips, a cool, shadow-tinted face at home under exotic trees _a morose little girl insanely sensitive with a dream inside her" A refreshing warmth in the street pleased his senses shoe-button eyes Rabelaisean exaggerations munching out monosyllables a subtle incense for his deadened nerves. "...An emancipated creature who prides herself on being able to drink cocktails without losing caste/status. _She'll marry the first drunken newspaperman who forgets himself in her presence and spend the rest of _her life trying to induce him to go into the advertising business."


dressed with a certain ease Arguments, reprimands, entreaties grappling with shadows automatic efficiency of his thought formless and without beginning or end items of vast indifference Idlers irresponsible-eyed, casual-mannered individuals Oldish young men and youngish old men drained, hollowed out as by some tenaciously devouring insect a man ideally fitted assembled themselves on his tongue and pirouetted of their own energy the residues of emotion preoccupation greedy little purposes the aimless din The city alive with signs, smoke, posters, windows; falling, rising, flinging silence tumbled through the streets a scribble of rooftops against the sky Leave the old man be He offered no answer little dying candle-flame faces a featureless little glint of white in the shadows found himself once more looking seemed to grow always more motionless a patient, trembling figure like a caress into his mind