In order to console myself—to indemnify myself in some measure—I take to picking all possible faults in the people who glide by. I shrug my shoulders contemptuously, and look slightingly at them according as they pass.

The greatest factor in the decision was the need for public transportation.

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The medium of stone and the mediation of touch both effect a communicability and yet a partedness, since the experience Jude summons up and in which he feels connected to the past workers is also an experience that has passed away.