Maniac Magee - Imagery

“…just run your hand under your movie seat…”

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“Jeffery probably started screaming from the start of the song…”

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“Books, all right. Both sides of the suitcase crammed with them.”

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“He whispers: ‘Listen.’ Another one hears it. A faint, tiny noise. A rattling. A chittering. A chattering.”

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“They saw the kid, cool times ten, stretch out on the forbidden steps and open his book to read.”

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“He loved…pancake batter hissing on the griddle.”

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“So hot, if you were packing candy, you had soup in your pocket by two o’clock.”

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“But nobody stepped off a curb, everybody kept moving north…”

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“The old man was bumping through the zoo in the park pickup when he spotted the body clumped outside the buffalo pen.”

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“The kid’s voice was barely a squeak…”

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