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Ⅰ．Be, be pp., be ~ing, be p.
◆Stephen King. “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redeption”より
When Andy came to Shawshank in 1948, he was thirty years old. He was a short, neat little man with sandy hair and small, clever hands. He wore gold-rimmed spectacles. His fingernails were always clipped, and they were always clean.








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Ⅱ．基本パッケージ、Modifier、一文＝一こま、
On the Plane
A man stood up. He started walking. The man reached the door with various ornaments
such as toys, fruits and plants. He entered that room. Then he came out of that room. He saw me on the sofa. I, with no terror, saw his face, which was very large. Then, his face on the big and stout shoulders began swinging. I wondered about him. I approached him, looking at his head. I understood! It was not his head. But it was his straw hat.





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Ⅲ．The
◆Murakami Haruki, “The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler’s Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of Raging Winds” The Elephant Vanishes, p. 112より

I first noticed the wind had begun to blow in the afternoon on Sunday. Or more precisely, at seven past two in the afternoon.
At the time, just like always --- just like I always do on Sunday afternoons, that is --- I was sitting at the kitchen table, listening to some innocuous music while catching up on a week’s worth of entries in my diary. I make a practice of jotting down each day’s events throughout the week, then writing them up on Sunday.
I’d just finished with the three days up though Tuesday when I became aware of the strong winds droning past my window. I canned the diary entries, capped my pen, and went out to the veranda to take in the laundry. The things on the line were all aflutter, whipping out loud, dry cracks, streaming their crazed comet tails off into space.