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Blind Wisdom CHAPTER I A JOURNEY It was characteristic of Joan Wister, at games with her imagination, to affirm that she could remember the day she was born. She remembered quite beautifully being a brown paper parcel and hooked, as one sometimes sees meat in butcher carts, to the top of old Doctor Bromley sbuggy. Obviously, this explanation of her origin had come to her in answer to a particular need, the need for some explicit experience to write on the first page of her memoiy. Even at seventeen one recalls no laborious scroll of years, but a few vivid incidents, picked out in bright colors, and as one advances in years the brighter and more living they become. The first day at school, the first romance of childhood, and thence on through typical episodes of spankings, green apples, bicycles, skates, parties and the like to youngladydom. How truly yet how simply might a life be portrayed by such glimpsings! So, further along in her career, would Joan Wister mark as momentous the day she left boarding-school to attend her sister Agnes wedding. The scene was a railway station of the sort that manages to maintain, even in an unbecoming rain-storm, an appearance of extreme respectability.
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