putterings, 487
some later instances and adjacences, inadequate gestures, some obsolete
puttering with his “philosophical language” ₁
for example, puttering with
the doorjamb ₂
apart from the subject matter before them; nor did they allow themselves to become putterers in a blind alley of professional abstraction into which the layman cannot enter.
I remember one evening ₃
not in real-time or movie-time, but in old-man-puttering-about time... ₄
He goes on to say, “In this unsettled period” ₅
as if. “I have stood on the bridge at midnight,” ₆
But language does not stand still. ₇
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sources and surrounds at 487