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By the time Uncle Ulysses and the sheriff arrived and pushed through the crowd, the lunchroom was a calamity of doughnuts! Doughnuts in the window, d… - Robert McCloskey
" "By the time Uncle Ulysses and the sheriff arrived and pushed through the crowd, the lunchroom was a calamity of doughnuts! Doughnuts in the window, doughnuts piled high on the shelves, doughnuts stacked on plates, doughnuts lined up twelve deep all along the counter, and doughnuts still rolling down the little chute, just as regular as a clock can tick.
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"That's simply a fascinating machine," said the lady as she waited for the first doughnut to roll out .
"Here, young man, you must have the first one. Now isn't that just too delicious? Isn't it simply marvelous?"
"Yes, Ma'm, it's very good," replied Homer, as the lady handed doughnuts to Charles, and to Mr. Gabby, and asked if they didn't think they were simply divine doughnuts.
"It's an old family recipe!" said the lady with pride.
People — adults as well as children — so often just don’t realize what they’re looking at. There’s no thought behind it. They’ll say to themselves, ‘Well, that’s a bookshelf’ or ‘That’s an elephant,’ and see nothing other than just the fact. There’s no sense of relationship — or the relationship of a house to its environment, a man to his environment, of the scale of things. … Seeing is really a decision-making process, a matter of evaluating what is around you
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