Chapter VII

We again got assigned 3 chapters to read and a paper to write, but this time there were 4 evenings between classes, so we actually get to do one thing at a time  :)  I'm reading the last of the assigned chapters today, and I'll write the paper tomorrow.
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5:16 p.m.  But chapter VII is 33 pages long  :(  I need a cigarette break before I start this.

5:28 p.m.  Back, and starting to read now.

5:30 p.m.  "The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer."  Again the meteorology obligingly follows the plot  :)

5:36 p.m.  It's beautiful how the narration's shifted to a different key.

5:40 p.m.  Okay, showdown  :)

5:44 p.m.  Now the text itself used the word "parallel":  "I stared at him and then at Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before---and it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between sick and well."  Well?  :)

6:09 p.m.  Okay, there must be a color symbolism here.  On top of everything else  :)

6:13 p.m.  Done  :)