Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

I've got an adjective that just fits you.

I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.