Several Personal Essays

In the early morning, I always look with hope on my town. As the day wears on, though, its predictability, dullness, and endlessness gain strength. By the end of the day, I feel crushed by an oppressiveness that doesn't touch me, and that I can't touch. This town, then, is my prison by day.

With the twilight, hope begins to stir again. The sameness begins to be relieved by a blurring of familiar objects. As night begins to fall, my town begins to take on a new persona. The lights in the town create a new and inviting atmosphere. The dark of the countryside defines the limits of my world, so that the endless sameness can be held at bayoutside of my town. There is no predictability in my town now. The

patterns of light surrounding pools of darkness create an allure that puts an end to all thought of dullness. Now, I'm sure that something interesting

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t to be clean. It has been a long time since I felt that I was really clean. Clean is much more than a state of mind. Of course, one's concept of clean is developed in the context of her or his surroundings, and what is clean to me might not be clean to someone else. Clean, however, is also developed in the context of what a person's society tells her or him that clean is. According to my society, and, thus, according to me, I haven't been really clean in a long, long time. I could be clean, though, if I were able to live in this room. This room not only provides the material resources one must have in order to be clean, it 1 2 Essay #2B also provides its occupant with the necessary time to become and stay clean. I think that this room would be just about right for me. I'd trade it in a minute for my spot under the freeway bridge if I had an offer. Essay #3B COLUMBUS, INDIANA Today, I discovered that only threequarters of an hour from where I live is a small city named Columbus, Indiana. One might be tempted to say "so what?" There's probably a small city about an hour away from where most everyone lives, particularly if they happen to live in Indiana. Columbus
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