putterings, 487
some later instances and adjacences, inadequate gestures, some obsolete
puttering with his “philosophical language” ₁ for example, puttering with the doorjamb ₂ apart from the subject matter before them; nor did they allow themselves to become putterers in a blind alley of professional abstraction into which the layman cannot enter. I remember one evening ₃ not in real-time or movie-time, but in old-man-puttering-about time... ₄ He goes on to say, “In this unsettled period” ₅ as if. “I have stood on the bridge at midnight,” ₆ But language does not stand still. ₇
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sources and surrounds at 487
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