, "Everywhere we went I had trouble making out which was I, the one walking at my side, the one walking in my pants." Meanwhile, throughout the writer's recollection he illustrates how time takes on a new meaning. For example, prior to arriving at the lake, he wonders what has happened to this picturesque view over time, but when he finally arrives, he notices that it is pretty much the same. In addition, White also has a way of switching from the present to the past and vice versa. For instance, he says, "the waitresses were the same country girls, there having been no passage of time, only the illusion of it as in a dropped curtain -- the waitre!
             sses were still fifteen; their hair had been washed, that was the only difference -- they had been to the movies and seen the pretty girls with the clean hair."
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