I ___1___ in Yale Law School in the fall after the riots. This time I did not leave Watts. Nor did I ___2___ to leave Watts. Watts ___3___ me to Yale. In fact, Watts was at Yale before I was. The discussions about riots and ghettos were more lively and ___4___ than the classroom ___5___ on the law. There were no word games or contrived problems. The questions raised were urgent ones.

In its eye he saw the green gloom of willow-sleeved canals in cool ___6___, an eye filled with panic and concern for the ___7___ veins of life that circled like a silent whirlpool around it. Where do fishes go when they die? He wondered. The glow of long-remembered lives was ___8___ in its eyes, and the memory of cunning curves ___9___ in the moving shadows from reed to reed as it ___10___ the smaller fry and was itself chased by bigger fish was also pictured there.

Then Elgie said at last, "I think it's good that you've come, because Magpie needs some ___11___ from this constant surveillance, constant ___12___ up. In fact, that's what he always talks about. 'If I have to associate ___13___ the whites, then I'm not free: there is no ___14___ in that for Indians. 'You should talk to him now. He's changed. He's ___15___ complete separation, segregation, total isolation from the whites."

But not ___16___ a man will engage in activities of which the purpose is destructive without regard ___17___ any construction that may come after. Frequently he will ___18___ this from himself by the belief that he is only sweeping away in order to build ___19___ , but it is generally possible to ___20___ this pretense, when it is a pretense, by asking him what the subsequent construction is to be.

My own lack of shame in the rioting then taking place in America ___21___ me. In one sense, I was the ___22___of the ghetto child who through hard work and initiative was ___23___ himself toward a better life. I was the ___24___, the exception. It was my life that was held up to Watts youth to ___25___.

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