We parked the car, Elgie came over and 1 himself in the back seat of the car.A police car moved slowly to the corner_2_we were parked and the patrolman looked at the three of us 3 and we pretended not to notice. The patrol car_4_down the empty street and I turned_5_toward Elgie.Before I could speak, Salina said,“She's got some papers for Magpie. He has a chance to go to a writer's school in California.”
The investigation was not_6_so that veterans could spill out their hearts or_7_their souls; it was done to prove that the policy of the United States in Indochina is 8 to genocide, and that not only the soldiers are responsible for what is happening, but that everyone here in America who has_9_the brutalization and depersonalization to_10_on is responsible.
He rolled down the window and 11 the match so it spun end- over- end into the gutter.“ Two points,” he said, and cocked the cigarette 12 the roof of the car, sucked powerfully, and 13 two plumes through his nostrils. He was beginning to feel like 14 , Ace Anderson, for the first time that whole day,a bad day. He beat time on the 15 . The car jerked crazily.
In Australia, where people are few and rabbits are many,I watched a whole populace 16 the primitive impulse in the primitive manner by the skilful 17 of many thousands of rabbits. But in London or New York,where people are many and rabbits are few, some other means must be found to 18 primitive impulse.I think every big town should contain artificial waterfalls that people could 19 in a very fragile canoes, and they should contain bathing pools full of 20 sharks.
Mostly you were like a fish: you swam about 21 freedom, thinking how good it was to be 22 alone, doing anything you wanted to do and caring about no one, when suddenly:SPLUTCH!— the big hook clapped itself_23_your mouth and you were caught. Without knowing what you were doing you had_24_off more than you could bite and had to stick with the same piece of 25 for the rest of your life.
