Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered

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242/260“Now, Pheoby, don’t feel too mean wid de rest of ’em ’cause dey’sparched up from not knowin’ things. Dem meatskins is got tuh rattletuh make out they’s alive. Let ’em consolate theyselves wid talk.’Course, talkin’ don’t amount tuh uh hill uh beans when yuh can’t donothin’ else. And listenin’ tuh dat kind uh talk is jus’ lak openin’ yo’mouth and lettin’ de moon shine down yo’ throat. It’s uh known fact,Pheoby, you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo’ papa and yo’ mamaand nobody else can’t tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everybody’sgot tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuhfind out about livin’ fuh theyselves.”There was a finished silence after that so that for the first time theycould hear the wind picking at the pine trees. It made Pheoby think ofSam waiting for her and getting fretful. It made Janie think about thatroom upstairs—her bedroom. Pheoby hugged Janie real hard and cutthe darkness in flight.Soon everything around downstairs was shut and fastened. Janiemounted the stairs with her lamp. The light in her hand was like aspark of sun-stuff washing her face in fire. Her shadow behind fellblack and headlong down the stairs. Now, in her room, the placetasted fresh again. The wind through the open windows had broomedout all the fetid feeling of absence and nothingness. She closed in andsat down. Combing road-dust out of her hair. Thinking.The day of the gun, and the bloody body, and the courthouse cameand commenced to sing a sobbing sigh out of every corner in theroom; out of each and every chair and thing. Commenced to sing,commenced to sob and sigh, singing and sobbing. Then Tea Cake cameprancing around her where she was and the song of the sigh flew outof the window and lit in the top of the pine trees. Tea Cake, with thesun for a shawl. Of course he wasn’t dead. He could never be dead untilshe herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his
243/260memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here waspeace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it fromaround the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. Somuch of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.
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1Ships at a distance have every man
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34/260“Humph! Y’all let her wor
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36/260“Aw, pretty good, Ah’m tr
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38/260“Pheoby, dat Sam of your’
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2Janie saw her life like a great tr
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42/260mah mama. Dey didn’t tell a
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44/260In the last stages of Nanny
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46/260“Brother Logan Killicks. He
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48/260angel wid de sword is gointuh
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50/260“ ‘Nanny, Ah come to see
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52/260“Ah wouldn’t marry nobody
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54/260“Lawd a’mussy, honey, Ah
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56/260You can buy and sell such as
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59/260“Naw, Ah needs two mules di
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61/260“Yeah, and Ah makes and suc
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63/260“You didn’t say all dat w
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65/260low-lifed nigger is grinnin
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5On the train the next day, Joe did
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69/260Starks and Janie moved on off
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71/260“Over dere in Maitland, ’
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73/260“Hicks, Ah’d git mad and
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75/260“I god, course it would! An
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77/260“Dat’ll do, Tony,” Lige
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79/260in de store and you kin look
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81/260colored town. Lift yo’ eyes
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83/260village feel funny talking to
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85/260“Speakin’ of winds, he’
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6Every morning the world flung itse
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89/260“Lige knows all about dat c
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91/260right. But supposing they wen
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93/260“Now, Lum, you know dat mul
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95/260A respectful silence fell on
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97/260Joe was struck speechless for
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99/260The chorus answered, “Bare,
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101/260Walter Thomas was due to spe
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103/260“Naw it ain’t neither.
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105/260of him doin’ it. Nature is
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107/260“Unhunh, you talked too fa
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109/260with her bristles sticking o
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111/260when the bread didn’t rise
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113/260“Yes, indeedy, Mist’ Sta
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115/260Janie did what she had never
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117/260This was the first time it h
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119/260“Naw, Ah ain’t outa mah
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8After that night Jody moved his th
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123/260“Dat’s lie dat trashy ni
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125/260He was lying on his side fac
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127/260“Leave heah, Janie. Don’
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9Joe’s funeral was the finest thi
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131/260And the lonesomeness in the
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133/260he got he was reared back in
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10One day Hezekiah asked off from w
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137/260“Dis is de last day for da
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139/260“Ah don’t need no pocket
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11Janie wanted to ask Hezekiah abou
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143/260Tea Cake fell in beside her
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145/260“It’s mine too. Ah ain
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147/260tons of cold futility. He’
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149/260“Sho is. You needs tellin
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151/260As soon as she thought it lo
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153/260something to comb hair over.
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155/260women in town, how come dey
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157/260“But anyhow, Janie, you be
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159/260Pheoby had insisted that she
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161/260Then two weeks later the por
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163/260“Good Lawd, Janie, whut yo
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165/260and paid all the ugly women
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167/260“Dem wuzn’t no high muck
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169/260Daylight was creeping around
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171/260“Dat’s all right wid me.
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173/260“Dat’s right. De big men
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175/260Work all day for money, figh
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177/260“Ah naw, honey. Ah laks it
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15Janie learned what it felt like t
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181/260inexpressible; kissed her un
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183/260relief were a source of prid
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185/260money. Ah don’t go in no n
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187/260Since she hate black folks s
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189/260So she didn’t cling to Jan
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Page 163 and 164: 193/260straightened up as if in sur
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Page 167 and 168: 197/260fooling around. They were hu
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Page 175 and 176: 205/260quick fuh our papers. We got
Page 177 and 178: 207/260“But we still kin run,”
Page 179 and 180: 209/260“Well, uh, Good bye, Motor
Page 181 and 182: 211/260She could lean against it an
Page 183 and 184: 213/260“Once upon uh time, Ah nev
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Page 187 and 188: 217/260the white cemetery and a big
Page 189 and 190: 219/260“Dat sho is de truth. De o
Page 191 and 192: 221/260“Thought you tole me you w
Page 193 and 194: 223/260Finally he dipped up a drink
Page 195 and 196: 225/260“Janie, I’m pretty sure
Page 197 and 198: 227/260medicine from Palm Beach. Ma
Page 199 and 200: 229/260“Tea Cake, ’tain’t no
Page 201 and 202: 231/260He gave her a look full of b
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Page 209 and 210: 239/260Janie had hired and added ot
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