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<h4>Pipe</h4>
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<p>Symbol used to provide output of one command as input to another command</p>
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I am writing a history of the things men do. I have written three such histories
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and I am but a young man. Already I have written three hundred, four hundred thousand words.
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My wife is somewhere in this house where for hours now I have been sitting and writing.
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She is a tall woman with black hair, turning a little grey. Listen, she is going
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softly up a flight of stairs. All day she goes softly about, doing the housework in our house.
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I came here to this town from another town in the state of Iowa. My father was a
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workman, a house painter. He did not rise in the world as I have done. I worked
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my way through college and became an historian. We own this house in which I sit.
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This is my room in which I work. Already I have written three histories of peoples.
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I have told how states were formed and battles fought. You may see my books standing
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straight up on the shelves of libraries. They stand up like sentries. I am tall like
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my wife and my shoulders are a little stooped. Although I write boldly I am a shy man.
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I like being at work alone in this room with the door closed. There are many books here.
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Nations march back and forth in the books. It is quiet here but in the books a great
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thundering goes on.
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My wife has a serious, almost stern look. Sometimes the thoughts I have concerning
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her frighten me. In the afternoon she leaves our house and goes for a walk. Sometimes
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she goes to stores, sometimes to visit a neighbor. There is a yellow house opposite
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our house. My wife goes out at a side door and passes along the street between our
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house and the yellow house. The side door of our house bangs. There is a moment of
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waiting. My wife's face floats across the yellow background of a picture.
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Little things are growing big in my mind. The window before my desk makes a little
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framed place like a picture. Every day I sit staring. I wait with an odd sensation
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of something impending. My hand trembles. The face that floats through the picture
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does something I don't understand. The face floats, then it stops. It goes from the
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right hand side to the left hand side, then it stops. The face comes into my mind
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and goes out--the face floats in my mind. The pen has fallen from my fingers. The
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house is silent. The eyes of the floating face are turned away from me. My wife is a
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girl who came here to this town from another town in the state of Ohio. We keep a
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servant but my wife often sweeps the floors and she sometimes makes the bed in
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which we sleep together. We sit together in the evening but I do not know her.
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I cannot shake myself out of myself. I wear a brown coat and I cannot come out of
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my coat. I cannot come out of myself. My wife is very gentle and she speaks softly
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but she cannot come out of herself. My wife has gone out of the house. She does
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not know that I know every little thought of her life. I know what she thought when
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she was a child and walked in the streets of an Ohio town. I have heard the voices of
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her mind. I have heard the little voices. I heard the voice of fear crying when she
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was first overtaken with passion and crawled into my arms. Again I heard the voices
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of fear when her lips said words of courage to me as we sat together on the first
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evening after we were married and moved into this house. It would be strange if I
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could sit here, as I am doing now, while my own face floated across the picture
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made by the yellow house and the window. It would be strange and beautiful if I
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could meet my wife, come into her presence. The woman whose face floated across
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my picture just now knows nothing of me. I know nothing of her. She has gone off,
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along a street. The voices of her mind are talking. I am here in this room, as
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alone as ever any man God made. It would be strange and beautiful if I could float
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my face across my picture. If my floating face could come into her presence, if
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it could come into the presence of any man or any woman--that would be a strange
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and beautiful thing to have happen.

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