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They have, for that matter, devised many ingenious insect traps, so that hundreds or more can be caught, for many are needed since insects are so small. These traps are often constructed on trees, in the bark, in such a fashion that the tree gum itself is used to trap the insects. The traps appear to be part of the tree itself, so as to protect them.

(4:55 p.m. “I should tell you,” Jane said as I lit a smoke for her, “but as soon as that program was over, I knew he was going to mention the Abominable Snowman. But I thought it would be maybe a few lines — I didn’t expect that much.” I hadn’t expected any. The TV show had ended at 3:00 p.m. Jane also said she “saw,” or remembered, what the insect trap looked like, but she couldn’t make a drawing of it. She said she didn’t want to mislead me, but that the traps reminded her of spider webs, the way the insects became trapped in them.

(In answer to a question from a student:) A beloved trap is one that you set for yourself. [...] When you are tired of playing a Catholic priest, for example, you will fall into your own trap — in which your beliefs [as such a one] are suddenly worked out to their logical perfection, and you see what they mean.

[...] There will also be certain beloved traps set about the city, that will be of an enlightening nature … Now listen: You think there is nothing intrinsically impossible about building a platform in [your] space … I am suggesting, then, a platform in inner reality. [...]

And so our city will simply have alternate sidewalks, and they will be beloved traps, set by each self.

[...] She has felt psychologically trapped for some time, this bringing about the physical trap into which she has fallen.

[...] She felt that marriage was a trap—the trap again, you see, and that it was a hampering of freedom. [...]

It could have been a trap, you see. [...] If the son does not understand himself, then when fear of retaliation is removed, particularly if the mother beckons, then a trap is set.

She would feel quite trapped if you tried to do so, and in a rage, for you would have betrayed her. [...]

Still however out of pity, the trap is still a probable one. [...]

What magicians we all are,
turning darkness into light,
transforming invisible atoms
into the dazzling theater
of the world,
pulling objects,
(people as well
as rabbits)
out of secret
microscopic closets,
turning winter into summer,
making a palmful of moments
disappear through time’s trap door.

A mine tapping or mine trapping incident and an embargo.

[...] He felt trapped by them, having to help them, as he felt trapped by his own mother.

When he felt trapped he adopted those symptoms, though to a much lesser degree, that his mother had when she was trapped. [...]

[...] He felt trapped, unable to escape an unwanted situation, and here, the foot difficulties. [...]

[...] Ruburt felt resentful and trapped, thereby depriving himself of the rightful benefits that should have resulted from the afternoon and evening encounters.

[...] I am trapped by the concept of time, but I had the idea of development in reality.”)

(“How about the young couple trapped in the burning car, in the dream?”)

The couple represented old fears; again, interpretations of your father’s beliefs, that young couples become trapped by the fires of desire, and could not escape; that the man could not hold himself apart, but would be devoured by the sentiments of love that would consume him. [...]

[...] They have been trapped by the boundaries of what science has so far accepted into its family: an ethnocentrically perfect “set” of beliefs, with metaphysical mysteries denied, avoided, or written out.

[...] I don’t want you falling into that old trap of worrying all by yourself—we just can’t have it. [...]

He feels trapped in this apartment, that he is here because he is readily accessible to help your mother, as when he was a child he was readily accessible to help his own mother. [...]

[...] He felt that the trappings of success might be a real threat to your working time, and therefore to your ultimate success—that you would resent this beforehand, rather than, say, discuss it and so forth. [...]

It expresses your fears that the house traps you, and it is a turnabout. [...] Men trap animals, but in this case, the animal traps you.

[...] I do not know here: A mine tapping, or mine trapping incident, and an embargo. [...]

If however you imagine that the environment or physical condition is the reality, then you can feel trapped by it, and spend your efforts fighting a paper dragon. [...]

[...] There is no reason, therefore, for you to view the drama and feel trapped by it. [...]

[...] If however he could not achieve the kind of success he wanted, then he might as well have the trappings.

[...] He felt trapped and saw no way out. [...]

[...] He felt trapped. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) He is not temperamentally trapped. [...]

[...] Now when you read the text you will see that I simply said you were beginning to learn to ask the proper questions, for some questions can be traps that betray you. [...]