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Abuse (n.) is the unconscious's everyday idiom: the old jurist turned Goethe's oak into a linden so he could call his editor Erdmann a bigger ass than the stupid student Lindeman.
An Excuse (n.) I decided not to plead — “pressing work” (drukwerk), since no one believes that stock excuse — reappeared when I posted the card in the slot marked Drukwerk.
A First love (n.) can appear in a dream as the first sore of syphilis — 'Primäraffekt' read as prima affectio.
Haste (n.) can be camouflage: weighed down with lantern slides and rushing for a taxi, Stärcke travelled a week early to the village — and got the afternoon visit he had renounced.
Money (n.) and contact fused in the dentist sister's slip, 'Kontant' for 'Kontakt' — one wonders whether the two unmarried sisters would have more contact with young men if they had more ready money.
Shame (n.) hides things: the girl couldn't find the collar she'd bungled until she admitted she was ashamed before the dressmaker — then went straight to it.