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THE PEARL SYMBOLISM WORKSHEET
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"His people had once been great makers
of songs so that everything they saw or
thought or did or heard became a song."
"Down the rope that hung the baby’s box
from the roof support a scorpion moved
slowly. His stinging tail was straight out
behind him, but he could whip it up in a
flash of time- EVIL
"down the rope that hung the baby’s box
from the roof support a scorpion moves
slowly"
"His teeth were bared and fury flared in
his eyes and the song of the enemy
roared in his ears."
"Have I nothing better to do than cure
insect bites for ‘Little Indians’? I am a
doctor not a veterinary."
"No, they never have any money. I, I
alone in the world am supposed to work
for nothing and I am tired of it. See if he
has any money!"
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"a town is like a colonial animal"
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The news stirred up something infinitely
black and evil in the town; the black
distillate was like a scorpion, or like
hunger in the smell of food, or like
loneliness when love is withheld. The
poison sacs of the town swelled and
puffed with the pressure of it"
"He watched the ants moving a little
column…"
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The mountains are a conflict with in.
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" And the music of the pearl slowly drifted
off, then disappeared."
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