I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class’s teacher, when the class got to Evangeline, kept echoing in my ears: “We’re coming to a long poem now, boys and girls. Now don’t be babies and start counting the pages.” I lay there like a baby, counting the pages over and over, counting the pages.
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“The Taste of the Age”, p. 42; conclusionRandall Jarrell
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Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are little short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.
Donald Trump
Counting makes even hideous events bearable as simply more of the same -- the counting of wedding-rings, spectacles, teeth and bodies disassociates them from their context -- to make the ultimate obscene blasphemy of bureaucratic insensitivity. Engage the mind with numbing recitation to make it empty of reaction.
Peter Greenaway
[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
C. Wright Mills
Baby why'd you leave me, why'd you have to go; I was counting on forever, now I'll never know.
Carrie Underwood
We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.
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