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Graham experts objected that this was too narrow a view — that "Errand," like so much of Graham's work, was about fear itself, not necessarily sexual fear.

Graham experts objected that this was too narrow a view that "Errand," like so much of Graham's work, was about fear itself, not necessarily sexual fear.

"If I need to go to White Plains for just one errand, like say go to the bank, I have to wait a whole hour for the next bus," she said.

What has brought him to this barren land is not so much a dream as a fool's errand: like Tony Last in A Handful of Dust, he has come to South America for reasons that are too deep in his own soul for him to fathom and, like Last, he falls in with terrifying company.

But the Atticus in Go Set a Watchman, the new book that Harper Lee actually wrote as an early Mockingbird draft, is a deep segregationist who attends White Citizens Council meetings, and this is driving some white people mad: how can a character who embarks on a fool's errand like defending a black man in the Jim Crow south also have racist attributes?

Some people might simply fill up and drive on to the next errand like any other day.

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GETTING THINGS DONE Organization fanatics love SmartTime Pro, which, while arranging scheduled events to your liking, can also "find time for your tasks" — including minor errands like, as SmartTime proposes, "unjam paper in copy machine".

The second section: "Errands" like, "Buy Mom a birthday gift" (hey, repetition helps cement memories) and "Return book" (I bought a duplicate "Word for Dummies" because I forgot that I already owned one).

Now I must plan out my errands like army maneuvers.

But the boss did sometimes ask him to run errands like buying groceries.

Finish errands, like fetching water for the toilet, before the light fades.

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