Elevator

(narrator) Oh, a lift.

A lift?

What elevator?

It's a lift.

One of them also being, although logically it's quite a good idea to have a lift with no up and down button in it, if it only serves two floors, it's actually bloody terrifying, okay?

Is there an elevator?

Is there an elevator?

But I am an elevator.

I dreamt I met him in an elevator.

There's another elevator we can use.

You got an elevator in this house?

Would you like to be an elevator starter?

If I'd taken a different escalator, I'd never have seen her.

ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS

Could I get a lift in that van?

One of them also being, although logically it's quite a good idea to have a lift with no up and down button in it, if it only serves two floors, it's actually bloody terrifying, okay?

You feel it most when you're in a sealed metal box, a new style elevator they're called destination control elevators.

But, in this case, three doctors walk into an elevator.

So they gave me a pair of white gloves and stuck me in an elevator.

Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.

And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.

I happened to be in the elevator collecting data for this book.

You know how uncomfortable it is to be in a crowded elevator?

Wives, girlfriends, bartenders, childhood friends, deceived husbands but not an elevator.

In a walkup on Amsterdam Avenue, or in a joint like this?

Up, up, up.

No! Come on, come on, come on.

Up! Up! Up!

Up, up, up.

But some years ago I was on an elevator in Philadelphia, coming down.

There's an elevator outside, a police escort downstairs and a tugboat standing by.

She's had this elevator installed.

Up! Up!

Higher, higher!

Higher! Higher!

Louder, louder!

To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watch against watch.

To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.

Higher, higher

After him, Malchijah one of the goldsmiths to the house of the Nethinim, and of the merchants, made repairs over against the gate of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.

After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.

In a five floor walkup we can barely move in.

That's an elevator that's constantly moving up and down, but it can be controlled by the folks on land who are responsible for it.

There were his fine sensibilities, his fine feelings, his fine longings a sort of sublimated, idealised selfishness.