ifyou can take this , he thought afterward , remembering the severed limbs lying amid the remains of aluminum flaps and seat-cushions and a ragged chunk of tail with the numbers 17 and a big red letter t and part of a w on it , remembering the eyeball he had seen resting on top of a charred samsonite suitcase , remembering a child 's teddybear with staring shoe-button eyes lying beside a small red sneaker with a child 's foot still in it , if you can take this , baby , you can take anything .