David Malouf's 'The Complete Stories'
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in my ___ ____
“In my old self”
“_______ reproach”
“living reproach”
“_____ presence”
“hungry presence
“most all, of ______”
“most of all, of herself”
“__notion _______”
“no notion himself”
“___ talk and ____ ____”
“gun talk and game talk
“_____-______ understatement”
“tight-lipped understatement”
“__________ stoicism”
“existential stoicism”
“the ___was ___there”
“the boy was still there”
“______ up _____, bit __ ___”
“taking up again, bit by bit”
“go ____, __ elsewhere”
“go off, go elsewhere”
“_______ at ___ ____”
“shadows at the edge”
“____-green ____________ wilderness”
“grey-green nondescript wilderness”
“_______ at ____ in _____”
“happily at home in myself.”
“in ___ old ___, not new ___.”
“in my old self, not a new one.”
“open-_____unfinished ___________”
“open-ended unfinished structures”
“pass the ______of ___ _____”
“pass the weight of her body”
“make a ___ ____for _______.”
“make a new life for herself.”
“________ light”
“greenish light”
“this __ the ___ __”
“this is the real me”
“________the ____ code”
“violated the only code”
“_______ the fact”
“disguise the fact” - Andy
“Harry's ________ but ___ his ___”
“Harry's isolation but for his own”
“______ my ___ disruptive _______”
“forget my own disruptive presence”
“__________ with _____ he ______”
“nakedness with which he paraded”
“____was ____ her ____”
“body was not her own”
“_______I would go on _________”
“country I would go on dreaming”
“near and _______”
“near and familiar”
“ love _____ would be __________, that would make
a ____-blown ____of ___, a ________ wheel”
“love that would be overwhelming, that would make a wind-blown leaf of her, a runaway whee'l”
“unpredictably ______”
“unpredictably vicious” - description of Stuart
“____ his life ________”
“give his life direction”
“___________ future”
“indeterminate future”
“seeing ________ __ the ___ Smoke”
“seeing something of the Big Smoke”
“the ___ was _____ there”
“the boy was still there”
“______of ___life”
“weight of her life”
“shirts _______ awkwardly”
“shirts pegged awkwardly”
“how ____ of the _______ was ___.”
“how little of the initiative was his.”
“______ reproach”
“living reproach”
“______ in, wherever”
“dreaming in, wherever”
“extravagant _______”
“extravagant yearning” - Andy
“wanted a ____ that would be __________”
“wanted a love that would be overwhelming”
“tight-______understatement, ________”
“tight-lipped understatement, endurance”
“____, its ________stillness”
“land, its expansive stillness”
“______ fragility against his ____ of her _____”
“birdlike fragility against his ribcage of her bone”
“________ ______ tree”
““camphor laurel tree”
“her ____ had ____ a _____ turning, ____ haywire, and ___ ___ exactly __ it ___”
“her body had taken a wrong turning, gone haywire, and now did exactly as it pleased”
“____and ____ he hurled _____”
“Back and forth he hurled himself”
“As if the _____ it ___ on ___ have no ____”
“As if the breath it drew on might have no end”
“grace and __________”
“grace and assurance”
“last ____ before he ____ south to _______'“
“last trip before he went south to university'“
“The ___ of ____ he felt between ________ and _____”
“The wall of silence he felt between himself and others”
“___late ____ a family of ____”
“come late into a family of girls”
“___ glow”
“The glow”
'like a ____ of _______'
'like a page of Genesis'
“The ____ had ____ him one of its _________ prizes”
“The world had cast him one of its backhanded prizes”