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"You can see yourself a thousand times!"

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Will watchedthe barber pole whirl its red serpentineup outr of nothing, leading his gaze around, rising to vanish into more nothing.  On countless noons Will had stood here trying to unravel that ribbon, wach it come, go end without ending

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"THE DANGLING MAN"(Pg.31)

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"Deep into that darkness thinking, long I stood
there wondering, fearing doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before ."

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"Carnivals don't come this late in the year."

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Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show- Fantoccini, Marionette Circus, and Your PLain Meadow Carnival. Arriving Immediately!

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"THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD!"

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"So there they go, Jim running slower to stay with Will, Will running faster to stay

with Jim, Jim breaking two windows in a haunted house because Will's along, Will

breaking one window instead of none, because Jim's watching. God, how we get

our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see

what shapes we can make of the other."

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“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.” ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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"His eyes, fixed to some distant point within himself, were mint rock-crystal green."

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"I'm never going to own anything that can hurt me."

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“By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.” ―Ernest Hemingway

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And that was the October week they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more...

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"I'm never going to own anything can hurt me."

"You going to collect rocks, Jim? No, some day you've got to be hurt."

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"Deep into that darkness thinking, long I stood there wondering, fearing doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before ."

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"The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away."

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"Within the huge winter gem was there not a special vacuum?

a voluptuous hollow, a prolonged emptiness which undulated

from tip to toe of the ice? and wasn't this vacuum, this emptiness

waiting to be filled with summer flesh, was it not shaped somewhat like a

...woman?

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''Halfway home, Will felt a shadow breathing hard behind him."

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"Time and time and time again, always running

out on me."

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"somewhere not so far back, vast lightning stomped the earth."

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"Mademoiselle Tarot!" Read Jim. (Ray Bradbury 31)

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"It was such a block of ice as he remembered form traveling magician's shows when he was a boy, when the local ice company contributed a chunk of winter in which, for 12 hours on end, frost maidens lay embedded, on display while people watched and comedies toppled down the raw white screen and coming attractions came and went and at last the pale ladies slide forth all rimed, chipped free by perspiring sorcerers to be let off smiling into the dark behind the curtains."

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"Me, thought Will, seeing the guillotine flash, the Egyptian mirrors unfold accordions of light."

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"will watched the barber pole whirl its serpentine up out of nothing." (Bradbury 22)

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"Though wise men at their end know dark is right,

Because their words had forked no lightning they

Do not go gentle into that good night

Rage,rage against the dying of light" -Dylan Thomas

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"The library deeps lay waiting for them. Out in the world, not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather, anything might happen, it always did" (Bradbury 13).

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"The trouble with Jim was he lookedat the world and could not look away."

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" So looking back down the corridor , was Dad shocked to see he owned a son who visited this seperate 20,000-fathoms-deep world? Dad always seemed stunned when Will rose up before him, as if they had met a lifetime ago and one had grown old while the other stayed young , and this fact stood between...

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"I'm never going to own anything can hurt me."

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"... Will looked up at Jim's roof where the lightning rod glittered against the cold stars.

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"Lost time is never found again." -Benjamin Franklin

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"A Gypsy that was born in the Dust, raised in the Dust, and some day winds up back in the Dust"(Bradbury 31).

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"Who cares? A thousand and one wonders!

See! Mephistophele, The lava drinker! Mr Electrico! The Monster montgolifer?

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"...cooger...dark...carnival

...witch...wonders..."

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"The emptiness within the ice. The lovely

nothingness. The exquisite flow of an invisible

mermaid daring the ice to capture it"

(Bradbury 26).

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"cotton candy twirling so fast it looks like a tornado, maybe thats why the smell sucked in Crosetti.."

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"No use making more people. People die."-Jim Nightshade

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"With hair as blond-white as milk thistle, shut up one eye, tilted his head, and looked at the salesman with a single eye open, bright and clear as a drop of summer rain."

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"I smell the smelly smell of

something that smells smelly."

-Mr.Krabs

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"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality It takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self discipline, and effort. ~

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"And yet this vast chunk of wintry glass held nothing but frozen river water

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"Like all boys, they never walked anywhere, but named a goal and lit for it...Nobody won. Nobody wanted to win. It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow" (Bradbury 12)

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"Yes, but who notices? When? Now, my nose tells me, breathe! And I'm crying. Why? Because I remember how a long time ago, boys ate that stuff. Why haven't I stopped to think and smell the last thirty years?"

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"There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.” -Dante Alighieri

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"Cooger and Dark's..." "Carnival!"

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"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express"

-Francis Bacon

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"A Gypsy that was born in the Dust, raised in the Dust, and some day winds up back in the Dust" - Jim Nightshade

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“A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him.”  ~Pablo Neruda

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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi

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"Otherwise, I might not let you go. Wouldn't that be terrible, to just grab ahold?"- Mrs. Nightshade

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"That music..." Jim murmured. "Calliope. Must be coming tonight!"

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"And that was the October week they grew up overnight, and were never so young anymore..."

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"Egyptian mirror maze!"

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"in that room, on that strange stage, where the

actors spoke mysteries.."

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"And im crying. Why? Because I remember how a long time ago boys used to eat

that stuff. Why havent i stopped to think and smell the last thirty years?" -Mr.Crosetti

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Looked like water but it burnt. I mean, it not only burnt the mouth and stomach, but you could set it on fire. So they thought they'd mixed water and fir. Fire-water, the Elixir Vitae, By God.

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"A gypsy that was born in the Dust, raised in the Dust, and some day winds up back in the Dust," (Bradbury 31).

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"He was marbled with dark, was Jim Nightshade, a boy who talked less and smiled less as the years increased."

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"The wind flew Jim away. A similar kite, Will swooped to follow."

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"The Monster Montgolfier?" "A Montgolfier is a balloon."

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"'Don't you smell it?' ... "Cotton candy!'" - (Bradbury 21)

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MR ELECTRO!

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"Will runs because running is its own excuse. Jim runs because something's up ahead of him. Yet, strangely, they do run together."(Bradbury; 17)

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"You ever seen carnival ladies, Jim?"

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"It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow."

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"Egyptian Mirror Maze! See yourself ten thousand times!"

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"Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left." - Victor Hugo

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" "The Monster Montgolfier?"" "Balloon," said Will. "A Montgolfier is a balloon." "

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"'...COOGER... DARK... CARNIVAL... WITCH... WONDERS...'"

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"... a funeral of snow and crystal was a block of ice six feet long."

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"It can't be,' said Will. 'All carnivals

stop after Labor Day----"

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"The Dangling Man" - Jim

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"So there they go, Jim running slower to stay up with Will, Will running faster to stay up with Jim, Jim breaking two windows in a haunted house because Will's along, Will breaking one window instead of none because Jim's watching God, how we get our fingers in each others clay. That's Friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other." -Charles Halloway, page18

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"winding up from nothing, winding away to nothing,"

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"Yeah, what about the licorice and cotton candy we smelled, close?"

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"He was marbled with dark, was Jim Nightshade, a boy who talked less and smiled less as the years increased."

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"Perhaps Time itself was draining off down an immense glass, with powdered darkness falling after to bury all."

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"Perhaps Time itself was draining off down an immense glass, with powdered darkness falling after to bury all."

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"Love your parents. We are so busy growing up that we often forget ... They are also growing old." Goku, Dragon Ball Z

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"Heck, no. Cotton candy!"-Mr. Crosetti

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"Until this summer, it had been an ordinary street where

they stole peaches, plums, and apricots, each in its day. But

late in August, while they were monkey-climbing for the

sourest apples, the "thing" happened which changed the

houses, the taste of the fruit, and the very air within the

gossiping trees."

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"Placed over these two sawhorses like a funeral of snow and crystal was a block of ice six feet long. It shone dimly with its own effulgence, and its color was light green-blue. It was a great cool gem resting there in the dark."

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"...bringing sons into the world seconds apart; one light, one dark. There was a history of mutual celebration behind them."

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"It was such a block of ice as he remebered from traveling magician's shows when he was a boy."

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"Egyptian mirror maze! See yourself ten thousand times!"

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"Fury, ain't that a fine name for one who sells lightning rods? Did I take the name? No! Did the name fire me to my occupations? Yes! Grown up, I saw cloudy fires jumping the world, making men hop and hide." -Tom Fury (Bradbury 9)

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But one strange wild dark long year, Halloween came early.

One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight.

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"A Gypsy that was born in the Dust, raised in the Dust, and some day winds up back in the Dust"

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"The Most Beautiful Woman in the World"

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"The lava drinker"-circus

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"MR. ELECTRICO!" - Will Halloway

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"He illustrated. Special. See! Covered with monster!"

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"Take this, free! Why? One of those houses will be struck by lightning ! Without this rod, bang!"

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"Carnival!"

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"Cooger & dark's pandemonium shadow show -fantoccini,marionette circus and your plain meadow carnival"

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"Time , time." - Mr.Crosetti

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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."-Oscar Wilde