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…stupid I was standing in a room painted to look like a huge hole. So proudly I walked across what was once a frightening room. Wearing a smug little smile on my face {pause} until I fell into what was a void except for the slide that bore me farther…

…be removed by lifting them off the frame of the instrument. The bars are held in place by metal "nails" which fit through holes at the nodal points of the bars. Small pieces of padding at the nails, between the bar and the edges of the wooden trough, are made…

…. Basketball was invented on December 21, 1891. By a man named James Naismith, who was a Canadian clergyman. The game stared out with two peach baskets, and a soccer ball. The two peach baskets did not have holes to start with, and each peach basket was on one side…

…automatic functions such as digestion and respiration. Body posture and muscular co-ordination are controlled by the cerebellum. Ten cranial nerves originate in the frog's brain and the frog has 10 pairs of spinal nerves. Two simple holes make up the nostrils…

…the government may go about suspecting someone of terrorism. This allows the government a nice little hole: they can use these laws on any American. The US Code of Federal Regulations defines terrorism as: "...the unlawful use of force and violence against persons…

…. My palms begin to sweat, and the butterflies inside speed up. Indistinct sounds surround me but I cannot obtain any of this, my mind is a black hole. The mysteriously stern looks of the judges, sitting in a neat row without even the slightest upward crack…

…strings because their brother will live without them. Relationships complete people as a hole. In order to have a relationship around appreciation a person must give a certain amount of attention. Figuring out what is too much or too little attention can seem…

…noticed that the school buildings had a common 'theme' among them. All of them had an exterior of peeling pink paint, with white blotches where the paint had fallen off. The buildings didn't even have real windows, instead they had square holes in the walls…

…life could be, if only you made it so, and she helped me see the good in myself and in my new home. She helped me begin the process of overcoming my depression. However, while climbing out of the hole that I had dug for myself when I first moved here, I…

…as a metaphor for an aging mind. This skull-like setting is complemented by several textual references to Dante's Inferno. For instance, Clov comments at one point that they are in a refuge between earth and sea, while Hamm observes, "That here we're down in a hole…