#centone

  I never knew what I was sent for . give me information       1 to sign my name on the dotted line but I never knew what I was signing       2 and I never knew what I was missing       3   I never knew what I was dealing with… It just goes to show, you never know.       4 and for that matter I never knew what I was until much later       5 all kinds of old parts and tools, I never knew what I was looking at but I knew       6   Until I tried it, I never knew what I was       7 I never knew what I was going to be questioned about       8 I never knew what I was aiming at and why       9   I never knew what I was singing and I didn’t have a clue what was going on       10 (and she replied, “I never knew what I was getting myself into.”)       11 I never knew what I was supposed to do during a quiet time. Read one verse? Is a chapter enough? Maybe I should memorize the whole book. The list seemed both empty and endless.       12   I never knew what I was missing I was missing       13 I never knew what I was going to find       14  I never knew what I was going to hear,       15   I never knew what I was going to say       16 I never knew what I was going to say until I said it — the words just came out       17 I never knew what I was looking for.       18   I never knew what I was looking for but always found something,       19 I never knew what I was going to do. Fortunately something usually developed       20 I never knew what I was doing until ten minutes after I had done it,       21   I never knew what I was doin’. It used to worry me       22 all day long. I never knew what I was       23 I never knew what I was supposed to be perfect at and what didn’t matter.       24   I never knew what I was supposed to say, so I said nothing and       25 I always dreaded removing bandages for fear of hemorrhage. I never knew what I was going to find.       26 I never knew what I was missing when       27  

sources

1 ex Minutes of Evidence Taken before the Lancaster Bribery Commission, 28 August 1866, in Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Existence of Corrupt Practices at the last Election for Members to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Lancaster; together with the minutes of evidence: Vol 13 (of 24) (1867) : 38 OCR cross-column misread 2 ex Tony’s story, in Valerie Polakow, Lives on the Edge : Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America (1993; pb edn, 1993) : 65 3 ex Ronald J. Lavin, Way to Grow! : Dynamic Church Growth Through Small Groups (1996) : 76 4 ex James Wilcox (1949- *), Miss Undine’s Living Room: A Novel (2001) : 152 5 ex Bernie Matthews, Intractable (2007) : here 6 ex Mark Roehrig, The Amphigeo Story, The first and only “how to book” enabling you to build your own amphibious car (Trafford, 2002) : 20 7 ex Tommy Watson, A Face of Courage: The Tommy Watson Story — How Did He Survive? (2008) : 95 8 ex Denise George, Chapter 8, “Sometimes I’m overwhelmed with anxiety,” in What Pastors Wish Church Members Knew : Understanding the needs, fears, and challenges of church leaders today (2009) : 101 9 ex Thomas R. Hauff, When God Says, “No” : Reshaping Prayer and Learning to Listen (2010) : 41 10 “It had all been in Latin...” ex Carol Ann Rusch, This Lady Here : I'll Drink to That (2010) : 172 11 ex David Kamara, Overcoming Gossips (2007) : 2 12 ex Emily P. Freeman, Chapter 12, “Remain, on quiet and time” in Grace for the Good Girl : Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life (2011) : 141 13 ex Rahab Kimani, Deeply in Love : Poetic Love Stories (2012) : 60 14 ex Connie Martin and Barry Dundas, Love Never Ends (2012) : 137 15 ex Jane Gillooly on her On Suitcase of Love and Shame, in Scott MacDonald his Avant-doc : Intersections of Documentary and Avant-garde Cinema (2015) : 338 16 ex Curt Lindner, Fighting the Good Fight : Faith Through the Adversity of Terminal Cancer (2012) : 30 17 ex Herbert D. Blake, The Last Place I Looked : A Story of Hope, Inspiration, Transformation, and Restorative Justice (2013) : 37 18 ex Bruce Kelley, Ernetta Fox, Justin Smith, Preparing Your Campus for Veterans’ Success : An Integrated Approach to Facilitating The Transition and Persistence of Our Military Students (2013) : 25 19 ex Miljenko Jergovic, Mama Leone, translated from the Croatian by David Williams (2012) : 11 20 ex John Franceschina, Hermes Pan : The Man Who Danced with Fred Astaire (2012) : 133 Hermes Pan[aglotopoulos] (1909-1990) — wikipedia 21 C. Everette Hagler, Breathless : An Inward Journey (2013) : 370 22 ex Gerald Olson, “Seven Come Eleven, Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes,” in Random Runes : New Poems & Old Elegies (2013) : 111 23 ex Lisa Unger, In the Blood : Chilling grip-lit with a breathtaking twist you won’t see coming (2014) : here 24 ex Ann W. Smith, Overcoming Perfectionism : Finding the Key to Balance and Self-Acceptance (2013) : here 25 ex Edward Bryant, “The Cutter,” in Ellen Datlow, ed., The Cutting Room : Dark Reflections of the Silver Screen (2014) : 1-14 (2) 26 from a passage in Nurse Elizabeth Weaver’s description of an operating room at a base, quoted in Kathy Warnes, “Remembering and Forgetting Meuse-Argonne: The Shifting Sands and Partitioned Perspectives of Memory,” in Edward G. Lengel, ed., A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign (2014) : 472-495 (476) 27 ex Gail Nall, Breaking the Ice (2015) : 115  

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The construct “I never knew what I was” appears only once in a pre-1923 Google Books search, surfacing again only in 1994, with frequent appearances thereafter..

Strict chronology didn’t work, music and sense-wise, but — less strict — remains a limit.

The initial idea was that sources would be given only for extended extracts, and/or where the source — on its own trajectory, in its own context — drew me further down its path. In the end, I cited all 27. Some — numbers 19, 26 — were more interesting than others, but I depended equally on each one. Several of these sources are self-published.

  a Language of Interest or Inclination       1724 a Language of a particular Cast, and contains Expressions, whose Penetracy can no more be translated into another Language, than the Water of a Diamond can be painted       1729

in a language, of which there is now extant but one volume       1767

a language of such real difficulty       1769 gainst the true pronunciation of a language of which he pretends to be master       1773

that a language of art had been framed by philosophers, by what means       1773-74

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the words of a language of art       1773-74 that nothing in a language of art is without art       1773-74

were ever found without a language of their own       1773

a language of a very alarming import       1786 the soul, incapable of finding words in common language suitable to its lofty conceptions, and disdaining every thing low and prosaic, was obliged to invent a language of its own       1794

Every distemper may be said, in some sense, to have a language of its own       1797

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a language of delightful sensation, that is far more eloquent than words: it breathes to the ear the clearest intimations; but how it was learned, to what origin we owe it, or what is the meaning of some of its most affecting strains we know not       1799 making a language of his own, and telling how ’twas spoken in those parts       1801

a language of this kind, and has reduced its elements to the simple sounds       1801

intelligible to the heart. It is a language of       1803 a language of which the natives were so absurdly ashamed       1805

a language of a very witty volatile people, seekers after novelty, and abounding with variety of notions       1805 but it is a language of passion only, and not of ideas       1807

a language of more extensive use seems, from the preceding circumstances, to have been given to bees; and if it be not, in some degree, a language of ideas, it appears to be something very similar.       1807

unquestionably a language of emotions and passions, as well as a language of ideas. Words       1808 a language of difficult acquisition       1810 a language of phrases, and that, consequently, many words must unavoidably be given by circumlocution       1810

Woman is a language of itself — its characters are more obscure than hieroglyphics       1811 for it is a language of tropes and figures... he suddenly burst forth into a warm panegyric       1811

a language. Of such words, one may often be       1812

a language of its own. Their bodies and arms were ornamented with different figures indented by fire       1817 a language formed of gestures, as there was a language of words       1818 A language of this description would indeed be a nondescript, altogether vague and uncertain       1818

but whether there be such a thing as a language of nature or instinct       1819

Yet... they have a character, as they have a language, of their own ; and the most marked feature of their character is a love of hazard       1819

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A language of a still more simple, more determinate, in a word       1820 a language of a very different nature       1821 a language of the voice       1826 a language of some kind or other       1826 a language of this kind, and of far greater extent and variety       1826

altogether a language of things       1826 if not altogether, a language of pictures       1826 clothed in a language of his own creation       1826

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a language of human thoughts       1826 a language of impenetrable privacy       1826 a language of its own, that is to say       1827

of necessity a language of symbols. if such then, of necessity       1828 being purely a language of ideas       1828 a language of ideas rather than of words       1828

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translations from a language of which he is entirely ignorant       1828 which he surely could not have done, had he not been taught a language of some kind or other       1829 a language of State       1829

a language of which he had neither dictionary nor grammar       1830 a language of figures, every object or notion being expressed in it by       1831 a language of the utmost simplicity, certainty, and expressiveness       1831

and it would be a language of fixed sounds       1831 accustomed only to a language of definite ideas, attempting to glean from that language information concerning that language of the soul which expresses no definite ideas       1832 a language of the eastern peninsula       1834

a language of a different stock       1834 a language of the most extensive diffusion       1834 a language of sounds. Their misfortune       1835

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how a language of signs is formed and improved       1835 a language of its own unintelligible beyond its walls       1835 a language distinct from speech — a language of signs and motions inexpressibly significant and vivacious       1835

a language of terms to every new discovery       1836 of those ideas. A language of words       1836 in a language of possibilities       1836

a language of its own, which speaks so feelingly to the heart, and so pleasingly to the imagination       1837 A language of methodized signs       1837

So that some power above us would afford The means to make a language of a word       1838

a language of a more primitive character       1855 the invention of a language of so much character and grammatical peculiarity       1855 scarce more elaborate than a language of signs       1905

any practice of speech, inasmuch as it involves writing, is a language of fear       1982

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