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Universal Dependencies - English - LinES

LanguageEnglish
ProjectLinES
Corpus Partdev
AnnotationAhrenberg, Lars
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He would have to prove himself there. Unfortunately he resisted all attempts by my mother to prove himself elsewhere. In despair my mother consulted my grandmother who suggested they try the Navy Position. This down-to-earth advice was not well received by my father who had already added a veneer of conventional morality to his conventional respectability. 'But Jove is younger than you.' There he is, built like King Kong, as ambitious as the Empire State Building, as wide-eyed as Fay Wray, and as much a dream, an invention, as the movies and America itself. He was a giant projection on the blank screen of other people and that was his success. He was not a ruthless man but he believed in himself. That marked him out from the many others who believed in nothing at all. My grandmother, who was not a nervous type, said to herself, 'David must have got his promotion.' Nodding, she finished the chapter, let out the bath water and trudged home.

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