(5) It is a means of stirring the greatest number of people by offering them a privileged picture of common joys and sufferings. (2) For myself, I cannot live without my art. (3) If, on the other hand, I need it, it is because it cannot be separated from my fellow men, and it allows me to live, such as I am, on one level with them. (4) But I have never placed it above everything. (1) It obliges the artist not to keep himself apart; it subjects him to the most humble and the most universal truth.

-Albert Camus, 1957 Nobel Acceptance Speech
Read the paragraph and determine the most logical order of the numbered sentences.

A) 1,2,3,4,5
B) 2,3,4,1,5
C) 2,4,3,5,1
D) 4,3,5,1,2

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The town should regulate the height of buildings allowed on main street. this would be categorized as a: a. claim of fact. b. claim of policy. c. claim of cause and effect. d. claim of definition.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.