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    The document is a poem spoken by an old woman named Phineus. In 3 sentences, she expresses that she is near the end of her life and wants simple comforts like food, rest, and company, but does not want obligations or responsibilities. She describes herself as "a big round stone sitting in the middle of a thunderstorm", wanting the world to move around her while she remains still.

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    The Happy Haven

    John Arden

    PHINEUS:
    I'm an old old lady
    And I don't have long to live.
    I am onlv strong enough to take
    Not to gve. No time left to give.
    I want to drink, I want to eat,
    I want my shoes taken offmy feet.
    I want to talk but not to rvalk
    Because if I wa]k, I have to know
    'Where it is I want to go.
    I want to sleep but not to dream
    I want to play and win every game
    To live with love but not to love
    The ıv,orld to move but me not move
    I want I want for ever and ever- I5

    The rvorld to work, the world to be clever.


    Leave me be, but don't leave me alone-
    That's what I want. I'm a big round stone
    Sitting in the middle of a thunderstorm.
    There vou are: that's true.
    That's me. Now: you.

    z The Rabbits'V'ho Caused All the Trouble


    James Thurber
    ,lvi*ıin
    the memorv of the youngest child there was a family of rabbits
    who lived near a pack of wolves. The wolves announced that they did
    not like the way the nbbits were iiving. (The wolves were crazy about
    the way they themseives were living, because it was the only way to
    live.) one night several ıvolves were killed in an earthquake and this
    l

    soclETY
    52

    wasbiamedontherabbis,foritisu,ellkıou'ııthatrabbitspound.on
    ,t. grorna with their hind legs and cause ,i:l:",l": and 9: :İ:ll"
    thıs was
    of lighming
    ,rlgtİ o.,. of the wolves was killed bv a bolt
    also blamed on the rabbis, for it ii
    well kııolı.rı that lenucö_eaters
    Io ..,,.ı,g},t.ng.The.ıvolvesthreatenedtocir-i.lizetherabbitsifthey isiand,
    run away to a desert
    didn't behave, and the rabbits decided to
    distance, shamed üem,
    nra at. other animals, who lived at a Breat
    U, brave, This is no world
    sayıng, 'You must stry'where you
    are
    ",a
    you, we will conıe to your aid, in all
    for escapists. If the wolve,
    "oİk near the wolves and one
    ı5 p..U"Ulİi,lr.' So the rabbis connnued to live
    great many wolves.
    a;-;;,*rs a terrible flood which drowned a known
    Tt , *", blamed on the rabbits, for it is ıvel] descended on the
    that carrot-

    nibblers with long ears cause floods,


    The ıı,olves
    them in a dark cave, for
    rabbits, for their own good, and imprisoned
    theİr own protecdon,
    for some week, the
    When nothing was heard about the rabbia
    ,*üat had happened th.em,,,The
    other animals demanded to know 1o
    and since they had been
    *olr., replied that the rabbis had been eaten
    matter, But the oüer anima]s
    eaten üe affair was a purel.v internal
    against the wolves unless some
    25 warned that they r,,igt,İ po"lUly unite
    rabbits. So the wolves gave
    ,."ron was given ro. it. i.ror.rio., of the 'and, you
    'They were tr,ving to escape" said the wolves,
    as
    them one.
    knorı,, this is no world for escapists,'
    isldııd,
    Moral: Run, don't walk, to tlıe nearest desert

    3 Ellipsoid
    Martin soııtlıall

    The very 'sameness' of eggs


    bores me.

    I have eaten hundreds,


    seen thousands.

    lpı, 1
    Yet always
    the pointed end and
    the rounded end
    have rernained in their appointed place,
    Static.

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