e. e. cummings

Name: The Enormous Room — THE WANDERER
Author: e. e. cummings

The Enormous Room — THE WANDERER (1922)

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“The Enormous Room — THE WANDERER”, published in 1922, is a work by e. e. cummings. It explores elements such as Wanderer, planton and The Enormous Room.

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e. e. cummings, The Enormous Room — THE WANDERER (1922)

“ And I think The Wanderer, with his wife and children whom he loved as never have I seen a man love anything in this world, was partly happy; walking in the sun when there was any, sleeping with his little boy in a great gulp of softness. And I remember him pulling his fine beard into two darknesses—huge-sleeved, pink-checked chemise—walking kindly like a bear—corduroy bigness of trousers, waistline always amorous of knees—finger-ends just catching tops of enormous pockets. ”

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e. e. cummings, The Enormous Room — THE WANDERER (1922)

“ The Wanderer's wife and his two daughters and his baby lived in the women's quarters. I have not described and cannot describe these four. The little son of whom he was tremendously proud slept with his father in the great quilts in The Enormous Room. Of The Wanderer's little son I may say that he had lolling buttons of eyes sewed on gold flesh, that he had a habit of turning cart-wheels in one-third of his father's trousers, that we called him The Imp. He ran, he teased, he turned handsprings, he got in the way, and he even climbed the largest of the scraggly trees in the cour one day. ”

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e. e. cummings, The Enormous Room — THE WANDERER (1922)

“ And the man in the shafts craned his neck in stupid amazement, and the planton twirled his moustache and assumed that intrepid look which only a planton (or a gendarme) perfectly knows how to assume in the presence of female beauty.
That night The Wanderer was absent from la soupe, having been called by Apollyon to the latter's office upon a matter of superior import. Everyone was abuzz with the news. The gypsy's wife and three children, one a baby at the breast, were outside demanding to be made prisoners. ”

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e. e. cummings, The Enormous Room — THE WANDERER (1922)

“ A planton always escorted the catchers through a big door, between the stone wall, which backed the men's cour and the end of the building itself, or, in other words, the canteen. The ten-foot stone wall was, like every other stone wall, connected with La Ferté, topped with three feet of barbed wire. The door by which we exited with the water-wagon to the street outside was at least eight feet high, adorned with several large locks. One pushing behind, one pulling in the shafts, we rushed the wagon over a sort of threshold or sill and into the street ”

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e. e. cummings, The Enormous Room — THE WANDERER (1922)

“ The Enormous Room
heroism. "Will you shoot?" the father inquired politely. "Indeed it would be a big thing of which you might boast all your life: I, a planton, shot and killed a six-year-old child in a tree."—"C'est enmerdant," the planton countered, in some confusion—he may be trying to escape. How do I know?"—"Indeed, how do you know anything?" the father murmured quietly. "It's a mystère." The Imp, all at once fell. He hit the muddy ground with a disagreeable thud. The breath was utterly knocked out of him. The Wanderer picked him up kindly. ”

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e. e. cummings, The Enormous Room — THE WANDERER (1922)

“ The vain little dancer interrupted about "broken-down horses" ... "Excuses donc—this was no disabled horse, such as goes to the front—these are some horses—pardon, whom you give eat, this, it is colie, that, the other, it's colie—this never—he could go forty kilometres a day...."
One of the strongest men I have seen in my life is crying because he has had to sell his favourite horse. ”

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e. e. cummings, The Enormous Room — THE WANDERER (1922)

“ In other words, it decided (through its Three Wise Men, who that the wife, her baby, her two girls, and her little son should be separated from the husband by miles and by stone walls and by barbed wire and by Law. Or perhaps (there was a rumour to this effect) The Three Wise Men discovered that the father of these incredibly exquisite children was not her lawful husband. ”

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e. e. cummings, The Enormous Room — THE WANDERER (1922)

“ The contrivance was placed in sufficiently close proximity to a low wall so that one of the catchers might conveniently sit on the wall and keep the water spouting with a continuous pressure of his foot, while the other catcher manipulated a tin pail with telling effect. Having filled the barrel which rode on the two wagon wheels, we turned it with some difficulty and started it down the street with the tin pail on top; the man in the shafts leaning back with all his might to offset a certain velocity promoted by the down grade, while the man behind tugged helpingly at the barrel itself. ”

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