Some men drew the first slip which touched their fingers; others seemed to suspect that fate was trying to ___1___ on them a particular slip and when they had drawn one a little way from the shoe ___2___ again and choose another. Time passed with incredible ___3___ and the man called ___4___ the wall with the ___5___ cigarette in his mouth paying them no attention at all .

I imagined the picture on the wall ___6___ difficulty, and gave it a few deft touches, but this set me thinking of pictures in ___7___, and then I remembered an art exhibition I had ___8___ with my what he said, and what I said, and I wondered how T. was ___9___ these days, and ill at school. And so it went on, until I found myself ___10___ on cheese, or Rocky Mountains-but no sleep!

When she saw that I didn't like her ___11___ to" people like you", she stopped for a moment and then put her hand on my arm. "Listen, "she said, "Magpie is happy now, finally. He is in good ___12___, handsome and free and strong. He sits at the drum and ___13___ with his brothers : he's okay now, he was saying all those things against the government and against the council, he became more ugly and ___14___ and I used to be afraid for him. But I'm not now. Please, why don't you leave it ___15___ now?

The viewer is on a ___16___ guided tour: 30 minutes at the museum, 30 at the cathedral,? 30? for a drink, then back on the bus to the next attraction-except on television, typically, the spans ___17___ are on the order of minutes or seconds, and the chosen delights are more often car crashes and people killing one another. In short, a lot of television ___18___ one of the most precious of all human ___19___, the ability to focus your attention yourself, rather than just passively ___20___ it.

It was like a play. It was exactly like a play. Who could believe the sky at the back wasn' t ___21___? But it wasn't till a little brown dog trotted on ___22___ and then slowly trotted off, like a little "theatre" dog, a little dog that had been ___23___, that Miss Brill discovered what it was that made it so exciting. They were all on the ___24___. They weren't' only the audience, not only ___25___ on; they were acting.

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