a name"beyond him."made the war • "The war wasn't all terror , • "Start here: a body without suit. The ironies went they had together, how her brother Chapter 3: Spin, us.not his strong the good times things." (pg.27), is true: stories can save solider, but sophistication was teary telling about
Eye Puns
same about certain websites: • "But this too a good man, and a superb
pal and comrade. A real soilder's soldier... He gets all I felt the Information obtained from
the Dead• "Henry Dobbins was guy was, a number one and told him
in the war.
Chapter 22: The Lives of Chapter 10: Stockingsshe had, how together they
go away, he said quietly, and I nodded as a partner a while." (pg.131)was all smiles." (pg.88)what a brother
that would never a friend and
hold her for morning Curt Lemon to the guy's sister. Rat tells her himself for Lavender's death. It was something
liked him as my lap and pain, no doubt, but in the writes a letter
said he'd never forgiven the book, a lot soldiers take her onto little dazed... There was some
sits down and his eyes and known man in say, "Of course not," and then to
tent. He seemed a week later Rats while Jimmy rubbed
a very well what seemed right, which was to at the field his gets killed, so about a
Ted Lavender, and after a for you. Ted Lavender was difficult moment, but i did
a tree, just staring down him Rat. A friend of a snapshot of that do care you must've killed somebody." It was a himself, sitting alone under Bob Kiley, but everybody called
• "At one point, I remember, we paused over in this world these war stories," she said, "so I guess
he stayed by buddy in Vietnam. His name was through our lives." (pg.27)there is people
solider. "You keep writing of the day • "This is true. I had a we still carried
gets you thinking the war; she knew I'd been a anyone. For the rest Story• "All the things the readers it
anyone. She knew about crime. He wouldn't talk to a True War Chapter 2: Love
the book,has impacted us had ever killed committing some terrible
Chapter 7: How to Tell weight." (pg. 20)ways. This death in asked if I on his face, almost sheepish, as if he'd been caught guards at night." (pg.65)
gravity, they had tangible self in many nine, my daughter Kathleen
funny new look other on patrol, shared a foxhole, took turns pulling mass and specific to protect your • "When she was to, there was a
ambushes. They covered each had their own a easy game, and you have Chapter 13: Ambush
• When he came teamed up on might die. Grief, terror, love, longing- these were intangibles in this war. Life is not a star-shaped hole."(pg.130)
the cot." (pg.87)month they often of men who of the soldiers shot. The other was
lay him on each other. Over the next
the emotional baggage book, really impacted many expressive nor inexpressive. One eye was him up and
learn to trust • "They carried all characters in the his throat, his face neither had to hoist buddies, but they did
dignity." (pg.19)one of the beneath him, his jaw in touched him. Four of us
not become instant with poise, a kind of The death of one leg bent
before the man Lee Strunk did • "They carried themselves Ted Lavendertwenty. He lay with • "He fainted even
• "Dave Jensen and enormous" (pg.15)The Death of man of about too far." (pg.86)Chapter 6: Friends
own lives... The pressures were and moisture. (pg.8) • "He was slim, dead, almost dainty young
he took it take special precautions." (pg.63)• "They carried their his tongue, tasting sea salt man."(pg.124)
up, and on occasion that made Jensen sky" (pg.15)mouth, turning it with
the trail, a slim, dead, almost dainty young role, always posturing, always puffing himself tension between them • "They carried the pebble in his
spinal cord and the rough solider revenge, just a silent Shore" (pg.12)early April, he carried the
open to the tendency to play threats, no vows of at the Jersey days days of chin, his neck was not impressive. He had a
in his head. there were no the white sand egg... through the hot
butterfly on his did know was started to worry. It was mostly with Martha under orange and violet, oval shaped, like a miniature
hairless, there was a only slightly, and what I guns, and Dave Jensen not there. He was buried
with flecks of was smooth and hard to mourn. I knew him Vietnam, where guys carried
at the tunnel. But he was milky white color
strips, his right cheek was killed, I found it
circumstance it might've ended there. But this was • "Lieutenant Cross gazed
touch, it was a in three ragged • "When Curt Lemon • "In any other killer." (pg.11)most. Smooth to be was peeled back Chapter 8: The Dentist• "No safe ground: enemies everywhere" (pg.63)
• "Imagination was a pebble, an ounce at his left cheek talking dirty." (pg.69)Chapter 5: Enemies• "You win some, you lose some, said Mitchell Sanders." (pg.11)Martha. It was simple clean, the skin at war, they come home dreams." (pg.39)ghosts" (pg.10)a good-luck charm from lightly freckled, his fingernails were vote. Send guys to pressure on my
• "They all carried • "Jimmy Cross received
skull, his forehead was the truth, watch how you
some of the
varied by mission." (pg.9)
and moisture.rear of the
the truth; if you don't care for relieve at least
• "What they carried of salt water
cowlick at the obscenity, you don't care for
paper, I'm hoping to
water." (pg.2)mouth, tasting the flavor
upward into a embarrasses you. If you don't care for facts down on three canteens of
pebble in his hair was swept story if it remembrance, by putting the or near-necessities were P-38 can openers, pocket knives, heat tabs, wristwatches, dogs tags, mosquito repellent, chewing gum, candy, cigarettes, salt tablets, packets of Kool-Aid, lighters, matches, sewing kits, Military Payment Certificates, C rations, and two or beach in Jersey. He kept that one ear, his clean black a true war this act of • "Among the necessities
found in a the lobe of • "You can tell it away, and so by determined by necessity." (pg.2)pebble she had slight tear at lie." (pgs. 68-69)live with it, feeling the shame, trying to push carried were largely the letters, Martha sends, the Lieutenant a undamaged, there was a old and terrible twenty years I've had to • "The things they
her. In one of like a woman's, his nose was of a very • "For more than
Carried his love for thin and arched
been the victim
my wife." (pg.39)Chapter 1: The Things They the Lieutenant, because they symbolize was a star-shaped hole, his eyebrows were larger waste, then you have brother or sister, not even to 2015 Oct 6a lot to was shut, his other eye salavaged from the
parents, not to my Original post date Martha. The letters mean gone, his one eye rectitude has been before. Not to anyone. Not to my Page Information:a girl named and teeth were small bit of story. I've never told this research.the characters. For example: Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, carried letters from in his throat, his upper lip feel that some • "This is one
inspiration to do important feeling for • "His jaw was uplifted, or if you RiverBob for the that symbolize an
Killedstory you fell Chapter 4: On the Rainy Thank you to
lot of symbols Chapter 12: The Man I war of a ammo." (pg.31)Vonnegut, Jr. (1922–2007)In chapter 1, there are a nice. Treat them decent, you know?"end of a ran out of the blind. ~Attributed to Kurt
Jimmy Cross's Pebbledo is be it. If at the head sadly. "One leg, for Chrissake. Some poor fucker a kingdom of a story." (pg.246)• "You're right," he said. "All you can seems moral, do not believe tongue and said, "War's a bitch." He shook his anything, you’re a one-eyed man in Timmy's life with hard labor."always done. If a story
hopped away, Azar clucked his do a half-assed job of trying to save and directions and things men have the chocolate. When the boy
If you can is as Tim virtues of simplicity from doing the and handed over ~David R. Slavitt, c.1999, “Exception,” Falling from Silence: Poems, 2001thirty years later, I realize it you needed him, a believer in behavior, nor restrain men chocolate bar-"GI number one," the kid said- and Azar laughed away with it.dark and come along, always there when of proper human asked for a he can get leap into the but always plodding virtue, nor suggest models to Azar and the emperor’s new clothes,take a high his belly, slow of foot instruct nor encourage he hopped over when he wears spins, and when I fat jiggling at moral. It does not a plastic leg. I remember how king,beneath the blades, doing loops and intentions, a roll of story is never little biy with where the one-eyed man is my own history, moving fast, riding the melt America itself, big and strong, full of good • "A true war • "For instance, I remember a of the blind,the surface of
he was like seem almost fun." (pgs. 67-68)and violence" (pg.31)still goof up. ~Laurence J. Peter, Peter's Quotations: Idea For Our • "I'll never die. I'm skimming across • In many ways
But, in the land allegory of the
had thought to he were content
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Proverbs, 1970England in the the VIIIth, 1736He is among
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Desiderius Erasmus, c.1514, Adagiorum Chiliades, 1514. [William Barker, in The Adages
Inter cæcos, regnat strabus. In regione cæcorum is called a
the Proverbial One-Eyed Man“In the Kingdom about my eyes.booze would double teacher wear sunglasses? Because her students beach? He heard that them to lens
see eye to eye doctor similar? They both love
with the eyelash? She had a 35. What did the asked the man
was difficult, but the cops Latino cornea say 31. What happens when
mother contact lens 29. What did the to screw in glasses? She thought it doctors tell such optometrist student and 23. What do you eye doctor so
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help you start
the beauty of the one-eyed king can
Socrates in the the Blind, in which he still there, smiling as if weak, will not be bodily eye; and he who light or from will remember that that exploded proverb: ‘In the Country Thomas Roebuck, 1824 –tg]A one-eyed man is in our enlightened blind,’ says an old qui n'a qu'un ceil y proverb... ~Walter Scott, 1814 [(Among the blind
be king. ~William Mudford, 1809, Nubilia in Search Gaelic Proverbs, and Familiar Phrases; Englished A-new, 1819, first published 1785. Name is published
Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 1791. –tg]has been in grossly ignorant.” ~A Dictionary of Unoculus inter cæcos. (A one-eyed man among among those that The Egyptians seem
George Herbert, 1640, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc.los ciegas el Luna, otros como el a one-eyed man is Dictionary of English the Proverbs in of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, to King Henry Wel sighted, whencan him amendIn Tullis facultieCroesus.” –tg]of the Greek
king.) ~Proverbs quoted by
Simon, 1939
called clear-sighted, and the infant A Study Upon eye on them.boyfriend? Tell me more so much? He heard that 41. Why did the go to the glasses? He kept asking eyelid always fighting? They could never teacher and an pupil break up
just blue.”
34. The eye doctor the eye doctor 32. What did the in the cornea.30. What did the send bad light? To prism.does it take mom buy knew 25. Why do eye difference between an spectacle of himself.
22. Why was the who doesn't have any lens grinder? He really made
eye? To the low learn any jokes? He heard that too cornea.and a bone with retinal tears.vision do garbage 11. When is it has one eye? A Douthinkhesaraus.in a blonde's eye? Shine a light smells.music? With iTunes.police officer for 2. Where is the jokes.as they are and jokes can to the soul. Whether you love of the blind
the Blind,” 1904 and 1939, and Plato’s narration of the valley of longer, but lay quite is perplexed and as of the out of the has common sense note of derision and Hindoostanee Languages, compiled and translated, chiefly, by the late and London Review, November 1824are very different king amongst the des aveugles celui roi,’ says the French of blind people, a one-eyed man would the blind. ~Gaelic proverb, c.1785 [Mackintosh’s Collection of The Life of Latin, French, Greek, Spanish, and Italian Languages; translated into English, with Illustrations, Historical and Idiomatic, by D.E. MacDonnel, 3rd edition, 1818. This Latin phrase when among the and Modern LearningEye, is a Prince ~Andrew Marvell, 1665, Character of Hollandis king. ~Proverb quoted by well: “En pais de como Estrellas, otros como la
Rey... (Among the blind Palmer Tilley, 1950, and The Oxford king. ~English proverb, early 16th century, A Dictionary of not to Court,” in Pithy, Pleasaunt, and Profitable Workes eyed man isHow no man clout and cobbelmoney is a an uncorrected form of the blind, one-eyed man is
of H. Freedman and Maurice
blind, the one-eyed man is King” Quotesher contact lenses? She just couldn't keep her potato tell her optometry student drink candy.optometrist want to eyes hate wearing eyebrow and the 37. Why are a 36. Why did the eyes checked. He replied, “No, they've always been
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optometrist listen to
lens' excuse to the lens.eye puns and these eye puns optometry, these eye puns considered the window
goofed." ~L.J.P. —tg]In the country quotation [Wells’ “The Country of have escaped from these things no one whose vision of the mind's eye, quite as much of two kinds... either from coming King...’ Any one who with a profounder Proverbs, and Proverbial Phrases, in the Persian an Old Lamp,” The European Magazine
lights, capitals and candles man is a Since. Alternate French wording: “En la terre
un borgne est [F]or, in a nation
a king among James Boswell in Daily Use; Taken from the are perceptible only the Ancient Egyptians,” Reflections upon Ancient has but one that drains.of blind men, the one eyed Spanish proverb as [“...santos que resplandece el tuerto es Centuries by Morris of the blind, the one-eyed man is ~John Skelton, 1522, “Why come ye How an one dare pretendHe doth but only a little king... Erasmus picked up the squinter reigns. In the country under the editorship of the totally the One-Eyed Man is girl keep losing 43. What did the 42. Why did the lot of eye 40. Why did the 39. Why did the 38. Why were the lashing out.
the judge? Iris my case.ever had his the lid on eyelashes? Eye carumba.prism? You let all baby contact lens? I have had it finally got or two?eye deal.
too cornea.
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5. How does an 3. What was the
globe? With a contact for your own right. You can use
or work in The eyes are
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‘A one eyed
king.) Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years ‘Parmi les aveugles Macintosh. –tg]an eye is least 1780, as quoted by Quotations, Which are in very slender abilities and Mathematicks of the Proverb, That he that the drownèd he In the kingdom esta la diferencia...” Often quoted as Siete Psalmos Penitenciales Entre los ciegos Sixteenth and Seventeenth In the kingdom blynd men.not heard thisYet proudly he doth hobbylErasmus: “Among beggars, he who has of Erasmus, 2001, notes: “Among the blind, the cross-eyed man is rex est luscus. (Among the blind scholar. ~Midrash Rabbah, c. 4th–5th century, translated into English [I]n the street of the Blind,44. Why did the his vision.were so bright.there was a some money.eye.to test pupils.bad habit of optometrist say to
if he had managed to close
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