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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    10:27 am
    @@@@@Then I looked at what had been under her
    @@@@@Then I looked at what had been
    under her pictures, weighing the picnic basket
    down
    It was ammo for the spear-pistolI lifted one of
    the stubby harpoons outIt was about fifteen
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    inches long, and quite heavyThe shaft was steel,
    not aluminum - I wasn't sure aluminum had even
    been used in the nineteen-twentiesThe businessend
    was triple-bladed, and although the blades
    were tarnished, they looked sharpI touched the
    ball of my finger to one, and a tiny bead of blood
    appeared on the skin instantly
    "You ought to disinfect that," Jack said
    "Yes indeed," I saidI turned the thing over in
    the afternoon sun, sending reflections bounding
    around the wallsThe short harpoon had its own
    ugly beauty, a paradox perhaps reserved
    exclusively for certain weapons of efficiency
    "This wouldn't go very far in water," I said"Not
    as heavy as it is
    "You'd be surprised," Wireman said"The gun fires
    off a spring and a CO2 cartridgeShe bangs pretty
    goodAnd back in those days, short range was
    enoughThe Gulf teemed with fish, even close in
    If Eastlake wanted to shoot something, he could
    usually do it at point blank range
    "I don't understand these tips," I said
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    Wireman said, "Nor do IShe had at least a dozen
    harpoons, including four mounted on the wall in
    the library, and none of them are like these
    Jack had gone into the bathroom and come back with
    a bottle of hydrogen peroxideNow he took the
    harpoon I was holding and examined the triplebladed
    tip"What is it? Silver?"
    Wireman made his thumb and forefinger into a gun
    and pointed it at
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    10:27 am
    @@@@@A bill collector calls and you "pay or else
    @@@@@A bill collector calls and you "pay or else So you pay and not pay yourselfA sales clerk says, "Oh, just put it on your charge card Your real estate agent tells you to "go ahead-the government allows you a tax deduction on your home That is what the book is really aboutHaving the guts to go against the tide and get richYou may not be weak, but when it comes to money, many people get wimpy
    I am not saying be irresponsibleThe reason I don't have high credit card debt, and doodad debt, is because I want to pay myself firstThe reason I minimize my income is because I don't want to pay it to the governmentThat is why, for those of you who have watched the video The Secrets of the Rich, my income comes from my asset column, through a Nevada corporationIf I work for money, the government takes it
    Although I pay my bills last, I am financially astute enough to not get into a tough financial situationI don't like consumer debtI actually have liabilities that are higher than 99 percent of the population, but I don't pay for them; other people pay for my liabilitiesThey're called tenants1 in paying yourself first is don't get into debt in the first placeAlthough I pay my bills last, I set it up to have only small unimportant bills, that I will have to pay
    Secondly, when I occasionally come up short, I still pay myself firstI let the creditors and even the government screamI like it when they get toughWhy? Because those guys do me a favorThey inspire me to i go out and create more moneySo I pay myself first, invest the money, and let the creditors yellI generally pay them right away an
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    10:35 am
    @@@@@The next day he drops in to see her, is
    @@@@@The next day he drops in to see her, is there often for the rest of the summer

    His years elapse, and he grows older, even wiser within the rigid gamut of his wisdom, but he hardly altersHe goes from job to job, becoming a butcher, working in the stockyards, even chauffeuring a car for some people who live on the North Side, but he exhausts the possibilities of the jobs very soon, knows their limitations almost before he has begun
    In 1941, when he is eighteen, he sees Lefty Rizzo again at a ball game, and they sit down togetherLefty is putting on weight already, looks prosperousWith his mustache he looks eight years older than twenty-two
    Ay, Polack, what the hell you been doin' with yourself?
    Play in' the percentagesStill the same old Polack, boy, are you a cardWhy the hell ain't ya been around to see me? I coulda fixed ya up with something
    Never got around to it, that's a fact(But it is more than thisHis code, never formulated, has been at workWhen a pal has hit it, y' don't touch him unless he asks ya
    Well, I can use ya
    Whah Novikoff, ya lousy RussianLet's see ya hit somethin' besides airPolack sits down after shouting, cocks his feet up on the seat in front of himWhat was that ya said?
    I can use ya
    Polack makes a face, purses his lipsMaybe we can do business, he says in dialect

    He buys a car, using for the down payment his savings from the first two months' workHe drives around at night after supper going to the candy stores and barbershops to collect the numbers receiptsWhen he is done he rides over to Lefty's house and drops the receipts and cash, goes back to the new furnished apartment he has rented for himselfFor this he gets a hundred dollars a week
    One night something a little different oc
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    10:35 am
    @@@@@ "With a tester and curtains on it, it will
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    "With a tester and curtains on it, it will be like a room in itself
    "Room? It'll be like a houseAnd you're right, once I'm in it I
    won't notice the nasty walls at allYou're a marvel, MrsI feel better than I have in monthsCan you imagine
    what it'll do to a baby to enter the world in that? It'll probably
    grow to be ten feet tall!" Their laughter was companionable as they
    walked slowly down the scrubbed granite staircase to the ground
    floor
    This'll have to be carpeted first thing, Scarlett thoughtOr maybe
    I'll just close up the second floor altogetherThese rooms are so big
    I'd have a huge house on the one floor aloneFitzpatrick and
    the cook will allow itWhy not? No sense being The O'Hara if I can't
    have things my wayScarlett stood aside to let MrsFitzpatrick open
    the heavy front doorThey looked out into a sheet of water
    "Damn," said Scarlett"This is a downpour, not a rain," the
    housekeeper said"It can't last at this rateWould you like a cup
    of tea? The kitchen's warm and dry; I've had the stove going all day
    to test itFitzpatrick's thoughtfully slow
    steps to the kitchen"This is all new," said Scarlett suspiciously
    She didn't like any spending without her approvalAnd the cushioned
    chairs by the stove looked too cozy altogether for cooks and maids
    who
    were supposed to be working
    "What did this cost?" She tapped the big heavy wood tableIt was in the tack room, filthy dirtyThe chairs are
    from Colum's ho
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    10:27 am
    @@@@@ What if he is disgusted? How will I stand
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    What if he is disgusted? How will I stand it? Will he make me go away?
    His warm, callused fingers tug my chin upMy heart throbs when our eyes meet
    “Mel, I…” His face, for once, has no smile
    I try to look away, but he holds my chin so that my gaze can't escape hisDoes he not feel the
    fire between his body and mine? Is that all me? How can it all be me? It feels like a flat sun
    trapped between us–pressed like a flower between the pages of a thick book, burning the paper
    Does it feel like something else to him? Something bad?
    After a moment, his head turns; he's the one looking away now, still keeping his grip on my
    chin“You don't owe me that, MelanieYou don't owe me anything at all
    It's hard for me to swallow“I'm not saying… I didn't mean that I feltobligatedAnd… you
    shouldn't, eitherForget I said anything
    He sighs, and I want to disappearGive up–lose my mind to the invaders if that's what it takes
    to erase this huge blunderTrade the future to blot out the last two minutes of the past
    Jared takes a deep breathHe squints at the floor, his eyes and jaw tight“Mel, it doesn't have
    to be like thatJust because we're together, just because we're the last man and woman on
    Earth…” He struggles for words, something I don't think I've ever seen him do before“That
    doesn't mean you have to do anything you don't want toI'm not the kind of man who would
    expect… You don't have to…”
    He looks so upset, still frowning away, that I find myself speaking, though I know it's a mistake
    before I start“That's not what I mean,” I mutter“'Have to' is not what I'm talking about, and I
    don't think you're 'that kind of manIt's just that –”
    Just that I love himI grit my teeth together before I can humiliate myself mo
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    10:27 am
    @@@@@ I was wondering what to do next - who to
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    I was wondering what to do next - who to call -
    when Ilse came back on the phoneShe sounded
    exhaustedShe also sounded like herselfFinally
    like herself"Jesus Christ in the morning," she
    said
    "What happened?" I had to restrain myself from
    shouting"Illy, what happened?"
    "It's goneIt caught fire and burnedI watched
    it through the windowIt's nothing but ashesI
    have to get a Band-Aid on the back of my hand, DadThere was something really, really
    wrong with it"Damn thing
    didn't want to go inIt folded itself over
    and That shaky laugh again"I'd call it a
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    and it didn't feel like one
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    The important thing for me was that she was all
    rightThe important thing for her was that I wasOr so the foolish artist thoughtI
    told her I'd call tomorrow
    "Illy? One more thing She sounded totally awake and in
    charge of herself againIs there an oven light?"
    "Yes
    "You'll have to hold on, then - the cordless is in
    the bedroom
    There was another pause, shorter
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    10:28 am
    @@@@@Grant, pretending to whisper across the
    @@@@@Grant, pretending to whisper
    across the table to MrsGrant hardly knows what
    the natural taste of our apricot is: he is scarcely ever indulged with
    one, for it is so valuable a fruit; with a little assistance, and ours is
    such a remarkably large, fair sort, that what with early tarts and
    preserves, my cook contrives to get them allNorris, who had begun to redden, was appeased; and, for a
    little while, other subjects took place of the improvements of
    SothertonNorris were seldom good friends;
    their acquaintance had begun in dilapidations, and their habits were
    totally dissimilar
    After a short interruption MrRushworth began again“Smith’s
    place is the admiration of all the country; and it was a mere nothing
    before Repton took it in handI think I shall have ReptonRushworth,” said Lady Bertram, “if I were you, I would
    have a very pretty shrubberyOne likes to get out into a shrubbery
    in fine weatherRushworth was eager to assure her ladyship of his acquiescence,
    and tried to make out something complimentary; but, be48
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    tween his submission to her taste, and his having always intended
    the same himself, with the superadded objects of professing attention
    to the comfort of ladies in general, and of insinuating that
    there was one only whom he was anxious to please, he grew puzzled,
    and Edmund was glad to put an end to his speech by a proposal of
    wineRushworth, however, though not usually a great talker,
    had still more to say on the subject next his heart“Smith has not
    much above a hundred acres altogether in his grounds, which is
    little enough, and makes it more surprising that the place can have
    been so improvedNow, at Sotherton we have a good seven hundred,
    without reckoning the water meadows; so that I think, if so
    much could be done at Compton, we need not despairThere have
    been two or three fine old trees cut down, that grew too near the
    house, and it opens the prospect amazingly, which makes me think
    that Repton, or anybody of that sort, would certainly have the avenue
    at Sotherton down: the avenue that leads from the west front
    to the top of the hill, you know,” turning to Miss Bertram particularly
    as he spokeBut Miss Bertram thought it most becoming to
    reply—
    “The avenue! Oh! I do not recollect itI really know very little of
    Sotherton
    Fanny, who was sitting on the other side of Edmund, exactly opposite
    Miss Crawford, and who had been attentively listening, now
    looked at him, and said in a low voice—
    “Cut down an avenue! What a pity! Does it not make you think
    of Cowper? ‘Ye fallen avenues, once more I mourn your fate unmerited

    He smiled as he answered, “I am afraid the avenue stands a bad
    chance, Fanny
    “I should like to see Sotherton before it is cut down, to see the
    place as it is now, in its old state; but I do not suppose I shall
    “Have you never been there? No, you never can; and, unluckily, it
    is out of distance for a rideI wish we could contrive it
    “Oh! it does not signifyWhenever I do see it, you will tell me
    how it has been altered
    “I collect,” said Miss Crawford, “that Sotherton is an old place,
    and a place of some grandeur
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    10:38 am
    @@@@@His mind was both blunted and exposed, naked
    @@@@@His mind was both blunted and exposed, naked and stupefied"The heart of all nations But for a few hours, after two days and fifteen miles of staggering forward under a tropic sun, after an eternity of wrestling Wilson's body through an empty and alien land, this could be true for himHis senses dammed, his consciousness reeling, Goldstein fumbled through a hall of symbolsWilson was the object he could not releaseGoldstein was bound to him by a fear he did not understandIf he let him go, if he did not bring him back, then something was wrong, he would understand something terriblebut he lost the sequence in the muck of his laborsThey were carrying him on and on, and he would not dieHis stomach had been ripped apart, he had bled and shit, wallowed through the leaden swells of fever, endured all the tortures of the rough litter, the uneven ground, and still Wilson had not diedThey still carried himThere was a meaning here and Goldstein lumbered after it, his mind pumping like the absurd legs of a man chasing a train he has missed
    "Ah like to work, Ah ain't a goddam fug-off," Wilson mumbled"If you're job, do goddam thing right, that's what Ah say His breath was gurgling again out of his mouthBrown and Stanley, shit!" He giggled feebly"Little ol' bugger May when she's a kid, always crappin' her pants He rambled through a cloudy memory of his daughter when she was an infant"Smartest little devil When she was two years old she would drop her faeces behind a door or in a closet"Goddam, step in it, git dirty He laughed, only it sounded more like a feeble wheezeFor an instant he recalled vividly his mixture of exasperation and merriment when he had discovered her leavings"Goddam, Alice'd git mad
    She had been angry when he had seen her in the hospital, angry again when they discovered he was s
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    10:36 am
    @@@@@ It'll perk up my appetite, too, and you
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    It'll perk up my appetite, too, and you know how you've been after me
    about not eating enough
    Scarlett forgot that she was being beguiling"And high time, too!
    Is her high-and-mightiness bothering to say what took her so long?"
    Mrs"She started out on time, but her piles
    bothered her so badly she had to stop overnight every ten miles on
    the
    way hereIt seems we won't have to worry about her lazing in a
    rocking chair when she should be on her feet working Scarlett tried
    not to laugh, but she couldn't help itAnd she couldn't really stay
    mad at MrsFitzpatrick; they had grown too close for thatThe older
    woman had moved into the housekeeper's apartment the day after Cat
    was
    bornShe was Scarlett's constant companion while she was illAnd
    readily available afterwardsMany people came to visit Scarlett in
    the long convalescent weeks after Cat was bornColum almost daily,
    Kathleen almost every other day, her big O'Hara men cousins after
    Mass
    each Sunday, Molly more often than Scarlett liked
    Fitzpatrick was always thereShe brought tea and cakes to the
    visitors, whiskey and cakes to the men, and after the visitors left she
    stayed with Scarlett to hear the news the visitors had brought and
    finish off the refreshments
    She brought news herself-about the happenings in the town of
    Ballyhara
    and in Trim-and gossip she'd heard in the shopsShe kept Scarlett
    from being too lonelyFitzpatrick to call her
    "Scarlett" and asked, "What's your first name?" MrsFitzpatrick
    never told herIt wouldn't do for any informality to develop, she
    said firmly, and she explained the strict hierarchy of an Irish Big
    House
    Her position as housekeeper would be undermined if the respect
    accorded
    to it was diminished by familiarity on anyone's part, even the
    mistress'sPerhaps especially the mistress'sIt was all too subtle
    for Scarlett, but MrsFitzpatrick's pleasant unyieldingness made it
    clear to her that it was importantShe settled for the names the
    housekeeper sugge
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    10:27 am
    @@@@@Now I stared out the windshield at the vast,
    @@@@@Now I stared out the windshield at the vast, vacant
    plain and felt my stomach twist with panic
    We have to move, WandererIt's only going to get hotter
    If I hadn't wasted more than a quarter of a tank of gas stubbornly pushing on to the very base of
    the second landmark–only to find that the third milestone was no longer visible from that
    vantage and to have to turn around and backtrack–we would have been so much farther down
    this sandy wash, so much closer to our next goalThanks to me, we were going to have to travel
    on foot now
    I loaded the water, one bottle at a time, into the pack, my motions unnecessarily deliberate; I
    added the remaining granola bars just as slowlyAll the while, Melanie ached for me to hurry
    Her impatience made it hard to think, hard to concentrate on anythingLike what was going to
    happen to us
    C'mon, c'mon, c'mon,she chanted until I lurched, stiff and awkward, out of the carMy back
    throbbed as I straightened upIt hurt from sleeping so contorted last night, not from the weight
    of the pack; the pack wasn't that heavy when I used my shoulders to lift it
    Now cover the car,she instructed, picturing me ripping thorny branches from the nearby
    creosotes and palo verdes and draping them over the silver top of the car
    “Why?”
    Her tone implied that I was quite stupid for not understanding
    But what if I want to be found? What if there's nothing out here but heat and dirt? We have no
    way to get home!
    Home?she questioned, throwing cheerless images at me: the vacant apartment in San Diego,
    the Seeker's most obnoxious expression, the dot that marked Tucson on the map… a brief,
    happier flash of the red canyon that slipped in by accidenthere would that be?
    I turned my back on the car, ignoring her adviceI was in too far alreadyI wasn't going to give
    up all hope of returnMaybe someone would find the car and then find meI could easily and
    honestly explain what I was doing here to any rescuer: I was lostI'd lost my way… lost my
    control… lost my mind
    I followed the wash at first, letting my body fall into its natural long-strided rhythmIt wasn't
    the way I walked on the sidewalks to and from the university–it wasn'tmy walk at allBut it fit
    the rugged terrain here and moved me smoothly forward with a speed that surprised me until I
    got used to it
    “What if I hadn't come this way?” I wondered as I walked farther into the desert wast
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    10:27 am
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    And because the one who really stopped her did not
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    getting to my feetDislodged bone-fragments and
    bits of moss-encrusted ceramic showered down
    around my feetMy left knee - my good one - felt
    swollen and tight against the torn cloth of my
    pantsMy head was throbbing and my chest was on
    fireThe cartier must 21 ladder looked at least a mile high, but
    I could see the dark shapes of Jack and Wireman
    hanging over the rim of the cistern, waiting to
    grab me when - if - I managed to haul myself into
    grabbing-range
    I thought: There's a three-quarter moon tonight,
    and I can't see it until I get out of this hole in
    the ground
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    The moon had risen fat and yellow above the
    eastern horizon, casting its glow on the lush
    jungle growth that overbore the south end of the
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    It also gilded the ancient, coral-encrusted
    skeleton that lay on the mattress of trampled
    vines Jack and Wireman had uprooted to free the
    cistern capLooking at Emery Paulson's remains, a
    snatch of Shakespeare from my high school days
    recurred, and I spoke it omega pocket watch aloud: "Full fathom five
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    eyes
    Jack shivered violently, as if stroked by a keen
    wet windHe actually clutched himself
    Wireman bent and picked up one thin, trailing arm
    It snapped in three without a soundEmery Paulson
    had been in the caldo a long, long timeThere was
    a harpoon sticking through the shelly harp of his
    ribsWireman retrieved it now, having to work the
    tip free of the ground in order to take it back
    "How'd you chanel silver keep the Twins from Hell off you with
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    Wireman jabbed the harpoon in his hand like a
    daggerI grabbed one out of his belt
    and did the sameI don't know how long it would
    have worked over the long haul, though - they were
    like mad dogs
    Wireman replaced the silver-tipped harpoon he'd
    used on Emery in his belt"Speaking of the long
    haul, we might consider another storage container
    for your new dollWhat do you think, Edgar?"
    He was cartier love ri
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
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    much, and found almost nothingEvery flattering scheme of being
    of consequence to her soon fell to the groundPrice was not
    unkind; but, instead of gaining on her affection and confidence,
    and becoming more and more dear, her daughter never met with
    greater kindness from her than on the first day of her arrivalThe
    instinct of nature was soon satisfied, and MrsPrice’s attachment
    had no other sourceHer heart and her time were already quite full;
    she had neither leisure nor affection to bestow on FannyHer daughters
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    were spent in a kind of slow bustle; all was busy without getting
    on, always behindhand and lamenting it, without altering her ways;
    wishing to be an economist, without contrivance or regularity;
    dissatisfied with her servants, without skill to make them better,
    and whether helping, or reprimanding, or indulging them, without
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    income
    Much of all this Fanny could not but be sensible ofShe might
    scruple to make use of the words, but she must and did feel that her
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    Fanny was very anxious to be useful, and not to appear above her
    home, or in any way disqualified or disinclined, by her foreign education,
    from contributing her help to its comforts, and therefore set
    about working for Sam immediately; and by working early and late,
    with perseverance and great despatch, did so much that the boy was
    shipped off at last, with more than half his linen readyShe had
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    by Fanny’s services and gentle persuasions; and she found
    that the best of the three younger ones was gone in him: Tom and
    Charles being at least as many years as they were his juniors distant
    from that age of feeling and reason, which might suggest the expediency
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    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
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    Friday, December 17th, 2010
    10:30 am
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    @@@@@I couldn't see anywayThe tears swam in front of my eyes
    “Jamie, Jamie, Jamie,” I crooned
    I couldn't seem to do anything but sob out his name and touch the packets of ice over and over,
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    I heard them leave, a few at a timeI heard their voices, mostly angry, fade away down the
    hallsI couldn't make sense of the words, though
    Jamie, Jamie, Jamie…
    “Jamie, Jamie, Jamie…”
    Ian knelt beside me when the room was almost empty
    “I know you wouldn't… but Wanda, they'll kill you if you try,” he whispered“After what
    happened… in the hospitalThey're afraid you have good reason to destroy us Anyway, he'll
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    I turned my face from him, and he went away
    “Sorry, kid,” Jeb mumbled when he leftI didn't hear him go, but I knew when he was goneThat seemed right to meHe
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    Doc stayed, watching helplesslyI didn't look at him
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    The room turned bl
    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
    11:03 am
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    HERE Y'ARE, TAKE A LOOK, he shouts as some voters approach

    Where you goin', Roy? Mary asksHer voice has a whining nagging quality and he turns in the door, and shakes his headShe cuts her boiled potato in half, and puts a big portion in her mouthA few flakes of potato stick to her lip, which angers himDon't ya ever eat anythin' but potatoes? he asksQuestions tug at his mindHe wants to ask her why she never eats with him at night, but always serves him first; he wants to tell her that he doesn't like to be asked where he is going
    You're not going to be at a CU meeting, are ya? she asks
    What do you care? (Why don't you ever put a dress over that slip?)
    Roy, you're going to get in trouble there, I don't like those men, you're only going to hurt yourself at the club, you know now the war's on they have nothing to do with them
    There's nothing wrong with the CULeave me alone, goddammit
    He slams the door, and walks into the nightIt is snowing a little, and at the street corners his shoes crunch icily through the slushHe sneezes once or twiceA man's gotta get out and have someY'get some ideals to fight for in the organization and a woman wants to stop yaI'm gonna be up there someday
    In the meeting hall, the air is hot and metallic from the heaters, and the smell of wet clothing is sourHe grits a cigarette butt into powder with his foot
    All right, we're in a war, men, the speaker says, we gotta fight for the country, but we don't want to be forgettin' our private enemie
    Friday, December 10th, 2010
    10:36 am
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    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
    10:35 am
    @@@@@ “It didn’t come from me, eitherAcademic, I
    @@@@@
    “It didn’t come from me, eitherAcademic, I may not have an alphabet after my
    name, but I’m not exactly an idiotThat’s my niece and nephew in the other room and I fully
    expect to watch them grow upThe leak’s why we’re being moved, isn’t it?”
    “Yes
    “How severe?”
    “Maximum
    “Jesus!” exploded St“That bastard shows up in the neighborhood, he’s mine!”
    “Easy, Canada,” said Jason, his voice now softer, conveying thought, not anger“You say, and I
    believe you, that you described the Tannenbaum place only to me and, if I recall, I was the one who
    identified itI remember because when Pritchard told me you were on the phone, I was on the
    other line with Henry Sykes in ’SerratRemember Henry, the CG’s aide?”
    “Of course
    “I was asking him to keep half an eye on Tranquility because I had to leave for a few days
    Naturally, he knew that because he had to clear the Uaircraft in here, and I distinctly recall his
    asking me where I was going and all I said was WashingtonIt never even occurred to me to say
    anything about Tannenbaum’s place, and Sykes didn’t press me because he obviously figured it had
    something to do with the horrible things that had happenedI suppose you could say he’s a
    professional in these mattersJacques paused, but before Bourne could speak he uttered
    hoarsely, “Oh, my God!”
    “Pritchard,” supplied Jason“He stayed on the line
    “Why? Why would he do it?”
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    327
    “No, you’re wrong, DavidPritchard may be a deluded, self-inflated jackass but he wouldn’t
    turn on me for moneyIt’s not that important in the islands—prestige isAnd except when he drives
    me up the wall, I feed it to him; actually he does a pretty damn good job
    “There’s no one else,
    Monday, December 6th, 2010
    10:49 am
    @@@@@ That evening I took both the contract and
    @@@@@
    That evening I took both the contract and the tape
    recorder back down to El PalacioWireman was
    making supperElizabeth was sitting in the China
    ParlorThe gimlet-eyed heron - which was a kind
    of unofficial housepet - stood on the walk outside,
    peering in with grim disapprovalThe late-day sun
    filled the room with light
    China Town was in disarray, the people and animals
    tumbled here and there, the buildings scattered to
    the four corners of the bamboo tableThe pillared
    plantation-house was actually overturnedIn her
    chair beside it, wearing her Captain Bligh
    expression, Elizabeth seemed to dare me to put
    things right
    Wireman spoke from behind me, making me jump"If
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    502
    she sweeps it apart againShe's knocked a bunch
    to the floor and broken them
    "Are they valuable?"
    "Some, but that's really not the pointWhen she's
    herself, she knows every one of themIf she comes around and asks where Bo Peep
    isand I have to tell her
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    "If she comes around
    "Think I'll head on home, Wireman
    "Gonna paint?"
    "That's the plan I turned to the disarray on the
    table"Wireman?"
    "Right here, vato
    "Why does she mess them up when she's like this?"
    "I thinkbecause she can't stand looking at
    what she's not
    I started to turn aroundHe put a hand on my
    shoulder
    "I'd just as soon you didn't look at me just now,"
    he sa
    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
    10:27 am
    @@@@@ “We were both stunned; I was half
    @@@@@
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    couldn't remember what it wasThe beast started to roll, dazedThe fresh air cleared my head,
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    “Protecting him from the cold as well as I could in the soft side of my hands, I moved him from
    my egg pocket into the claw beast's neck
    “The beast got to its feet and bucked againI'd let go of my hold to insert
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    enough to kill it–just annoy it
    “The snow had settled enough that I was in plain sight, especially as I was painted with the
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    swung toward meI thought that was it, and I was comforted a little that at least I would
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    “And then the pincers hit the snow beside meI couldn't believe it had missed! I stared up at
    the huge, hideous face, and I almost had to… well, not laughBut that was
    the feelingBecause that ugly face was torn with confusion and surprise and chagrinNo claw
    beast had ever worn such an expression before
    “It had taken Harness Light a few minutes to bind himself to the claw beast–it was such a big
    area, he really had to extend himselfBut then he was in controlHe was confused and slow–he
    didn't have much of a brain to work with, but it was enough that he knew I was his friend
    “I had to ride him to the crystal city–to hold the wound closed on his neck until we could reach
    a HealerThat caused quite a stirFor a while they called me Rides the BeastI
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