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Twenty-Two Years Old - Stanwood Emery
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Stanwood Emery 22

It was blowing cold in his face and he was sitting on the front of a ferryboat when he came to. His teeth were chattering. He was shivering… ‘I’m having DT’s. Who am I? Where am I? City of New York, State of New York…Stanwood Emery age twentytwo occupation student … Pearline Anderson twentyone occupation actress. To hell with her. Gosh I’ve got fortynine dollars and eight cents and where the hell have I been? And nobody rolled me. Why I haven’t got the DT’s at all. I feel fine, only a little delicate. All I need’s a little drink, don’t you? Hello, I thought there was somebody here. I’d better shut up.’

John Dos Pasos  ·  Manhattan Transfer

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Amory Blaine

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I’m years older in experience..."

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Nelson Angstrom

Rabbit is Rich

John Updike

"Nelson is twenty-two. Think of all the blame God has to shoulder..."

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Walter Bidlake

Point Counter Point

Aldous Huxley

"...he was only twenty-two at the time, ardently pure, with the adolescent purity of sexual desires turned inside out..."

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Arthur Seaton

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning

Alan Sillitoe

"...he knew he could hold his own with anybody; over six-feet tall, just turned twenty-two, and bags of strength to be drawn from somewhere..."

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Jacob Flanders

Jacob's Room

Virginia Woolf

"I’m twenty-two. It’s nearly the end of October. Life is thoroughly pleasant..."

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Stephen Dedalus

Ulysses

James Joyce

"I am twentytwo too. Sixteen years ago I twentytwo tumbled, twentytwo years ago he sixteen fell off his hobbyhorse..."

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Arthur Norris

Mr Norris Changes Trains

Christopher Isherwood

"Arthur had to grow up; to go to Oxford. His mother had to die..."

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Cavaillon

The Vagabond (La Vagabonde)

Collette

"We have run into this tall young man of twenty-two once or twice already..."

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Edward Ashburnham

The Good Soldier - A Tale of Passion

Ford Maddox Ford

"He was at that time twenty-two and, I believe, almost in pure in mind as Leonora herself. It is odd how a boy can have his virgin intelligence untouched in this world."