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She stands on a chair, trying to steady the hose. The water comes in spurts and gushes from the rusty pipe that crawls along under the ceiling. That is how they shower, by diverting hot water that is the factory's runoff and merely appears clean. Three years ago, when the factory partially shut...

Introduction Archy the Cockroach made his initial appearance in my office a good many years ago, in fact about the same time that free verse began to commend itself to the multitudes because it looked as if it would be so easy to write. There was a period which many persons still more or less...

Didn't seem fair on the young lad. That suit at the funeral. With the braces on his teeth, the supreme discomfort of the adolescent. On such occasions, one could almost come to regret one's own social brilliance. Gives him the excuse, or gives him in any case someone at whom to look pleadingly...

MONPAY11 November At 3.23 a.m. the hospital call to say a heart's been found. Put like that, it almost sounds funny, as if someone's just discovered it in a rubbish bin or on a doorstep like happens in the nev^s sometimes w^ith tiny babies. Except that's not hov^ it is. What they really mean...

By Hubert Phillips It is a privilege to be invited to introduce Mr. Ely Culbertson to a British public. He, who has bestowed his own imprimatur upon the books of so many others, stands in no real need of a sponsor; but the opportunity, which this preface affords, of saying something of Culbertson's...