Example 8.17
In Parallel
Will They
He Will
Walk Walk
Down Along
The Parallel
Parallel Lines
Path So
That That
Never They
Crosses Might
Hers Always
Nor Feel
Drifts Each
Apart Other’s
Not Absence
To o S o
Far Strongly
Never That
Too Her
Close Absence
So Becomes
That A
She Synonym
Can Of
Act Her
Out Presence
Her To
Own Him
Story But
She After
No A
Longer Lapse
Believes Of
That Several
The Years
Quality He
Of Notices
A His
Man Life
Can Has
Be Become
Measured An
By Antonym
How Of
He Her
Directs Life
And And
That He
Of Is
A Left
Woman In
By His-tory
How While
She Acts Along His-story Line She Is Living Her-story
‘In Parallel’ (Kumagai 1995a, p. 20)
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