10-14 Columbus day.
10-15
The man who had had the room before, after having slept the sleep of the just for hours on end, oblivious to the worries and unrest of the recent early morning, awoke then the day was well advanced and the sounds of the city completely invaded the air of the half-opened room. He must have thought -since no other state of mind occupied him- about the thick preoccupation of d**h, about his full, round fear, about the piece of earth-clay of himself-that his brother must have had under his tongue.
10-16 - PSAT.
10-17
Toward the end of January the sea was growing harsh, it was beginning to dump its heavy garbage on the town, and a few weeks later everything was contaminated with its unbearable mood. From that time on the world wasn't worth living in, at least until the following December, so no one stayed awake after 8 o'clock. But the year Mr. Herbert came the sea didn't smoother and more phosphorescent and during the first nights of March it gave off a fragrance of roses.
10-18
Now they're going to see who i am, he said to himself in his strong new man's voice, many years after he had first seen the huge ocean liner without lights and without any sound which pa**ed by the village one night like a great uninhabited palace, longer than the whole village and much taller than the steeple of the church, and it sailed by in the darkness toward the colonial city on the other side of the bay that had been fortified against buccaneers.