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And what's she doing?
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She's cutting her toenails. "Mrs. Watts was sitting alone in a
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white iron bed cutting her toenails with a large pair of scissors.
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She was a big woman with very yellow hair and white skin that glistened
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with a greasy preparation.
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She had on a pink nightgown that would have better fit
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a smaller figure."
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That large, white knee: the way this narration allows us to see through
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Haze's eyes begins to take the whole body apart, so what he sees
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is not Mrs. Watts; he sees a large, white knee.
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We saw a version of this also in the passage I was reading just before,
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where "a hand" comes in the window and rests--"lands"--on