Most recent public comments by Aiden Legarreta https://nowcomment.com/users/23617 https://nowcomment.com/documents/61997?scroll_to=593424 https://nowcomment.com/documents/61997?scroll_to=593424 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 16:12:19 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/61997?scroll_to=593423 https://nowcomment.com/documents/61997?scroll_to=593423 It seems that block format tends towards larger paragraphs. Wed, 12 Oct 2016 16:11:49 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569544 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569544 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:24:14 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569543 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569543 e thought of all the evenings he had spent away from her, working; and he regretted them. He thought wonderingly of his fierce ambition and of the direction his life had taken; he thought of the hours he'd spent by himself, filling the yellow sheet that had brought him out here. Contents of the dead man's pockets, he thought with sudden fierce anger, a wasted life. Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:18:54 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569527 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569527 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:15:20 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569526 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569526 Now, he sees his life as much more important than the paper. He completely forgot about the paper in his attempt to not fall to his death. Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:08:01 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569524 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569524 "He saw, in that instant, the Loew's theater sign, blocks ahead past Fiftieth Street; the miles of traffic signals, all green now; the lights of cars and street lamps; countless neon signs; and the moving black dots of people. And a violent instantaneous explosion of absolute terror roared through him." In a few moments, he perceives the street below and everything on it. Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:05:30 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569523 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569523 When Lexington street is revealed, it makes the scene much more real, and lets you know that the consequences are still there if he falls. Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:03:38 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569521 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569521 The paper was really important to him. He was ready to go grab it before someone took it (once it fell) "He knelt at the window and stared at the yellow paper for a full minute or more, waiting for it to move, to slide off the ledge and fall, hoping he could follow its course to the street, and then hurry down in the elevator and retrieve it." He started thinking of ways to get the paper. "He thought about the poker from the fireplace, then the broom, then the mop--discarding each thought as it occurred to him. There was nothing in the apartment long enough to reach that paper." He spent so much time on this paper he began to go into denial. "It was hard for him to understand that he actually had to abandon it--it was ridiculous--and he began to curse. Of all the papers on his desk, why did it have to be this one in particular!" " And there they all lay in his own improvised shorthand--countless hours of work--out there on the ledge." To Tom, this paper wasn't just a project, it was his ticket to the top. "But just the same, and he couldn't escape the thought, this and other independent projects, some already done and others planned for the future, would gradually mark him out from the score of other young men in his company. They were the way to change from a name on the payroll to a name in the minds of the company officials. They were the beginning of the long, long climb to where he was determined to be, at the very top. And he knew he was going out there in the darkness, after the yellow sheet fifteen feet beyond his reach." Tom wanted this paper, and after thinking about the logistics of getting the paper, he decides to do it. "To simply go out and get his paper was an easy task--he could be back here with it in less than two minutes--and he knew he wasn't deceiving himself. The ledge, he saw, measuring it with his eye, was about as wide as the length of his shoe, and perfectly flat. And every fifth row of brick in the face of the building, he remembered--leaning out, he verified this--was indented half an inch, enough for the tips of his fingers, enough to maintain balance easily. It occurred to him that if this ledge and wall were only a yard above ground--as he knelt at the window staring out, this thought was the final confirmation of his intention--he could move along the ledge indefinitely." Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:00:00 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569516 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569516 (assuming this is supposed to be a little later) He wants to finish this project because he believes it will make him rich and give him rank at his company. "But then they won't see it till Monday" "You won't mind though, will you, when the money comes rolling in and I'm known as the Boy Wizard of Wholesale Groceries?" Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:41:56 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569513 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569513 "As he watched, the paper struck the bottom edge of the window and hung there for an instant, plastered against the glass and wood. Then as the moving air stilled completely, the curtains swinging back from the wall to hang free again, he saw the yellow sheet drop to the window ledge and slide over out of sight." "He heaved on the window with all his strength and it shot open with a bang, the window weight rattling in the casing. But the paper was past his reach and, leaning out into the night, he watched it scud steadily along the ledge to the south, half-plastered against the building wall. Above the muffled sound of the street traffic far below, he could hear the dry scrape of its movement, like a leaf on the pavement." Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:31:09 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569435 https://nowcomment.com/documents/59879?scroll_to=569435 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:20:20 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/57212?scroll_to=563827 https://nowcomment.com/documents/57212?scroll_to=563827 Fri, 02 Sep 2016 17:05:45 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/57212?scroll_to=563826 https://nowcomment.com/documents/57212?scroll_to=563826 Fri, 02 Sep 2016 17:04:40 -0400