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  1. John Cheever _ The Swimmer

    He might have been compared to a summer's day, particularly the last hours of one.
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  2. John Cheever _ The Swimmer

    Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth?
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  3. John Cheever _ The Swimmer

    Then there was a fine noise of rushing water from the crown of an oak at his back, as if a spigot there had been turned. Then the noise of fountains came from the crowns of all the tall trees. Why did he love storms, what was the meaning of his excitement when the door sprang open and the rain wind fled rudely up the stair, why had the simple task of shutting the windows of an old house seem fitting and urgent, why did the first watery notes of a storm wind have for him the unmistakable sound of good news, cheer, glad tidings?
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  4. John Cheever _ The Swimmer

    He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure.
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  5. John Cheever _ The Swimmer

    His life was not confined and the delight he took in this observation could not be explained by its suggestion of escape."
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