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| Monday, January 3rd, 2011 | | 6:54 pm |
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had gone home; she was the only one @@@@@They had gone home; she was the only one who kept looking But now she'd vanished in the middle of her searchThat changed everything Her vehicle had been moved far away, left in the desert on the other side of TucsonIt looked as though she'd disappeared in the same way it was believed I had: pieces of her bag left torn nearby, the snacks she'd carried with her chewed open and scatteredWould the other souls accept such a coincidence? We already knew they would notWould the search become more intense? But to be afraid of the Seeker herself… That didn't make much senseShe was physically insignificant, probably smaller than JamieI was stronger and faster than she wasI was surrounded by friends and allies, and she, inside these caves at least, was all aloneTwo guns, the rifle and her own Glock–the very gun Ian had once envied, the gun that had killed my friend Wes–were trained on her at every momentOnly one thing had kept her alive until now, and it couldn't save her for long Jeb had thought I might want to talk to her Now that I was back, she was condemned to die within hours whether I spoke to her or not So why did I feel as though I was at the disadvantage? Why this strange premonition thatshe would be the one to walk away from our confrontation? I hadn't decided if I wanted to talk to herAt least, that was what I'd told Jeb Without a doubt, I didnot want to talk to herI was terrified to ever see her face again–a face that, no matter how I tried, I could not imagine looking frightened But if I told them I had no desire for conversation, Aaron would shoot herIt would be like I'd given him the order to fireLike I'd pulled the trigger Or worse, Doc would try to cut her out of the human bodyI flinched away from the memory of the silver blood smeared all over the hands of my friend Melanie twisted uneasily, trying to escape the torment in my head Wanda? They're just going to shoot he | | Saturday, January 1st, 2011 | | 6:59 pm |
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@@@@@ Rosemary applauded loudlyMiss Eleanor @@@@@ Rosemary applauded loudlyMiss Eleanor shushed her "We can't take too much creditThey can't risk all these unprotected houses on Emancipation Day She went on to answer Scarlett's questioning expression"New Year's Day isn't what it used to be, a quiet time to nurse headaches from too much New Year's Eve Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on a January first, so now it's the major day of celebration for all the former slavesThey take over the park down at the end of the Battery and shoot off firecrackers and pistols all day and all night while they get drunker and drunker We lock up, of course, including all the shutters, just the way we do for a hurricane But it helps to have an armed man in the house, too "There aren't any guns in the house "There will be," said RhettThey're coming from the Landing just for the occasion "And when will you be going?" Eleanor asked RhettI have an appointment with Julia Ashley on the thirty-firstWe need to plan our united-front strategy Rhett was leaving! Going to hiswretched, smelly old plantation! He wouldn't be here to kiss her on New Year's EveNow Scarlett was sure she was going to cry"I'm going to the Landing with you," said Rosemary"I haven't been there for months "You can't go to the Landing, Rosemary Rhett was carefully patient "I'm afraid Rhett's right, dear," said Mrs"He can't be with you all the time, he's got too much business to take care ofAnd you cannot be in the house or any place else with only that child you have for a mai | | Thursday, December 30th, 2010 | | 6:54 pm |
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“How?”
“A light @@@@@I got stuck with a lunatic “How?” “A light was on in the gatehouse, so I went over thinking David or Marie might have left us a messageThere was a clown outside who kept looking into a window and said he was the watchman and did I want to rent his telephone “His telephone?” “He said there were special rates for the night, as the nearest pay phone was ten kilometers down the road “A lunatic,” agreed Panov “I explained that I was looking for a man and a woman I was to meet here and wondered if they’d left a messageThere was no message but there was the telephoneTwo hundred francs— crazy “I might do a flourishing business in Paris,” said Mo, smiling“Did he by any chance see a couple wandering around?” “I asked him that and he nodded affirmative, saying there were dozensThen he pointed to that candlelight parade over there before going back to his goddamn window “What is that parade, incidentally?” “I asked him that, tooIt’s a religious cult; they bury their dead only at nightHe thinks they may be gypsiesHe said that while blessing himself “They’re going to be wet gypsies,” observed Panov, pulling up his collar as the drizzle turned into rain “Christ, why didn’t I think of it?” exclaimed Conklin, looking over his shoulder “The rain?” asked the bewildered psychiatrist “No, the large tomb halfway up the hill beyond the gatehouseIt’s where it happened!” “Where you tried to—” Mo did not finish the question; he did not have to “Where he could have killed me but didn’t,” completed Alex“Come on!” The two Americans retreated down the gravel path past the gatehouse and into the darkness of the rising hill of grass punctuated by white gravestones now glistening in the rain“Easy,” cried Panov, out of breath“You’re used to that nonexistent foot of yours, but I haven’t quite adjusted to my pristine body having been raped by chemicals Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 312 “Mo!” shouted a woman’s voice from a marble portico above | | Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 | | 6:52 pm |
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meAnd you've @@@@@Because you've been good to meAnd you've been good for me 407 "Right back atcha on that, Wireman His hands were resting on a slim gray folder he had carried out of the hospital with himHis name was on the tabHe raised one finger off it to still me without looking at me - he was looking straight ahead, at the Bealls Department Store anchoring this end of the mall"I want to do this all at onceThat work for you?" "Sure He turned to me, suddenly animatedHis left eye was bright red and weeping steadily, but at least now it was pointing at me along with the other one"Muchacho, have you ever seen one of those happynews stories about a guy winning two or three hundred million bucks on the Powerball?" "Everyone has "They get him up on stage, they give him a great big fake cardboard check, and he says something which is almost always inarticulate, but that's good, in a situation like that inarticulate is the point, because picking all those numbers is fucking outrageousIn a situation like 408 that the best you can do is 'I'm going to fucking Disney World' Are you with me so far?" "So far, yeah Wireman went back to studying the people going in and out of Bealls, behind which Tina Garibaldi had met Candy Brown to her pain and sorrow "I won la lotería, tooOnly not in a good wayIn fact, I'd say it was just about the world's worst wayThe lawyering I did in my other life was in OmahaI worked for a firm called Fineham, Dooling, and AllenWits - of which I considered myself one - sometimes called it Findum, Fuckum, and ForgettumIt was actually a great firm, honest as the dayWe did good business, and I was well positioned thereI was a bachelor, and by that time - I was thirty-seven - I thought that was probably my lot in lifeThen the circus came to town, Edg | | Monday, December 27th, 2010 | | 6:57 pm |
@@@@@“No soul snatching until that cryotank is @@@@@“No soul snatching until that cryotank is safely on its way into outer spaceRight, Wanda?” “Right,” I agreed in a firmer voice, hugging the tank tighter to my chest Brandt and Aaron exchanged sour glances I was going to need more alliesJared and Jeb and Doc were only three, though certainly the most influential three hereStill, they would need support I knew what this meant It meant talking to Ian Others, too, of course, but Ian would have to be one of themMy heart seemed to slump lower in my chest, to curl limply in on itselfI'd done many things I had not wanted to do since joining the humans, but I couldn't remember any this sharply and pointedly painfulEven deciding to trade my life for the Seeker's–that was a huge, vast hurt, a wide field of ache, but it was almost manageable because it was so tied up in the bigger pictureTelling Ian goodbye was a razor-sharp piercing; it made the greater vision hard to seeI wished there was some way, any way, to save him from the same pain The only thing worse would be telling Jared goodbyeThat one would burn and festerBecause hewouldn't feel painHis joy would far outweigh any small regret he might feel over me As for Jamie, well, I wasn't planning on facing that goodbye at all “Wanda!” Doc's voice was sharp I hurried to the bed Doc was hovering overBefore I got there, I could see the tiny olive hand fisting and unfisting where it hung over the edge of the cot “Ah,” the Seeker's familiar voice moaned from the human body The room went utterly silentEveryone looked at me, as if I were the expert on hu | | Sunday, December 26th, 2010 | | 7:02 pm |
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The men move slowly now, leaning forward @@@@@ The men move slowly now, leaning forward as if striding into the windHe is fascinated by the sluggishness of it all, the lethargy with which they advance and fallThere seems no pattern to the attack, no volition to the men; they advance in every direction like floating leaves in a pool disturbed by a stone, and yet there is a cumulative movement forwardThe ants in the final sense all go in one direction Through the field glasses he watches one soldier run forward, plunge his head toward the mud, stand up and run againIt is like watching a crowd from a high window or separating a puppy from the rest of the wriggling brood in a pet-store windowThere is an oddness, an unreality, in realizing that the group is made up of units The soldier falls, quivers in the mud, and he switches his glasses to another They're at the German trenches, someone shouts He looks up hastily, sees a few men jumping over the parapet, their bayonets forward like pole vaulters approaching the barThey seem to move so leisurely, so few men follow them that he is puzzledWhere are the rest he is about to say when there is a shout from the Regimental CommanderThey took it, they're good boys, they took itHe is holding the phone in his hand, shouting orders quickly The German artillery is beginning to fall on the newly taken trenches, and columns of men advance slowly through the dusk over the quiet field, circling around the dead men, and filing into the German trenchesIt is almost dark, and the sky has assumed a rosy wash in the east where a house is burningHe cannot see through his field glasses any longer, and he puts them down, stares across the field with a silent wonderIt looks primal, unfamiliar, the way he has imagined the surface of the moon might lookIn the craters the water glistens, slides away in long rippling shadows from the bodies of the men who have fallen What'd you think of it? The Colonel nudges himBut he cannot find the wordsIt has been too immense, too shatteringThe long dry battles of the textbooks come alive for him, mass themselves in his mindHe can only think of the man who has ordered the attack, and he pictures him with wonder(For want of a richer word he picks up the military expressio | | Saturday, December 25th, 2010 | | 7:02 pm |
@@@@@I have to make him take it "Scarlett," @@@@@I have to make him take it "Scarlett," Rhett was saying, "there's no 'making up' for the pastDon't destroy the little that is leftLet me be kind, I'll feel better for it She seized on his words"Oh, yes! Yes, Rhett, pleaseBe kind, the way you were before I ruined the happy time we were havingLet's just have fun, be friends, until I go back to Atlanta I'll be content if we can just laugh together; I had such a good time at breakfastMy, you are a sight in that apron thingThank God he couldn't see her any better than she could see him"That's all you want?" Relief took the edge from Rhett's voiceScarlett took a big swallow of coffee while she planned what to sayThen she managed an airy laugh"Well, of course, sillyI know when I'm beatI figured it was worth a try, that's allI won't crowd you any more, but please make the Season good for meYou know how much I love parties "And if you really want to be kind, Rhett Butler, you can pour me another cup of coffeeI don't have a hot-holder, and you do After breakfast Scarlett went upstairs to get dressedIt was still night, but she was much too excited to think about going back to sleep She'd patched things up pretty well, she thought He had enjoyed their breakfast, too, she was sure o | | Friday, December 24th, 2010 | | 6:54 pm |
@@@@@There was a leak and it didn’t come from @@@@@There was a leak and it didn’t come from Langley “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?” “You forget,” explained Bourne“Carlos bought your Crown governor and his Savonarola drug chiefThey had to cost heavy money; he could have bought Pritchard for a lot less 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 | | Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 | | 6:52 pm |
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separate the truth from @@@@@These days I can't separate the truth from the wishful thinking He shook his head hard enough to make his hair fly, 496 then thumped his forehead with the heel of his hand "Easy for you to say He sat silent for a few moments, then picked the piece of breakfast pastry out of Elizabeth's hand and fed it to herWhen it was tucked safely away in her mouth, he turned to me"Would you mind her while I go get something?" "Happy to He jogged up the boardwalk and I was left with ElizabethI tried feeding her one of the remaining pieces of breakfast pastry and she nibbled it out of my hand, bringing back a fleeting recollection of a rabbit I'd had when I was seven or eightHitchens had been its name, although I no longer knew why - memory's a funny thing, isn't it? Her lips were toothless and soft, but not unpleasantI stroked the side of her head, where her white hair - wiry, rather coarse - was pulled back toward a bunIt occurred to me that Wireman must comb that hair each morning, and make that bunThat Wireman must have dressed her this morning, including diapers, for surely she wasn't continent when she was like thisI wondered if he 497 thought of Esmeralda when he pinned the pins or secured the tiesI wondered if he thought of Julia when he made the bun I picked up another piece of breakfast pastryShe opened her mouth obediently for it"What's in the red picnic basket, Elizabeth? The one in the attic?" She seemed to thinkThen: "Any old pipe-dip"Any old pipedip Adie wantsIt was a startling, witchlike soundI fed her the rest of her breakfast pastry, piece by piece, and asked no more questions xiv When Wireman returned, he had a microcassette recorder"I hate to ask you to put that contract on tape, but I have toAt least the damn thing's only two pages longI'd like it back this afternoon, if that's possible | | Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 | | 7:06 pm |
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"Once government got a taste of money, the @@@@@ "Once government got a taste of money, the appetite grew," said rich dad"Your dad and I are exactly oppositeHe's a government bureaucrat, and I am a capitalistWe get paid, and our success is measured on opposite behaviorsHe gets paid to spend money and hire peopleThe more he spends and the more people he hires, the larger his organization becomesIn the government, the larger his organization, the more he is respected On the other hand, within my organization, the fewer people I hire and the less money I spend, the more I am respected by my investorsThat's why I don't like government peopleThey have different objectives from most business peopleAs the government grows, more and more tax dollars will be needed to support it My educated dad sincerely believed that government should help peopleKennedy and especially the idea of the Peace CorpsHe loved the idea so much that both he and my mom worked for the Peace Corps training volunteers to go to Malaysia, Thailand and the PhilippinesHe always strived for additional grants and increases in his budget so he could hire more people, both in his job with the Education Department and in the Peace Corps From the time I was about 10 years old, I would hear from my rich dad that government workers were a pack of lazy thieves, and from my poor dad I would hear how the rich were greedy crooks who should be made to pay more taxesBoth sides have valid pointsIt was difficult to go to work for one of the biggest capitalists in town and come home to a father who was a prominent government leaderIt was not easy knowing who to believe Yet, when you study the history of taxes, an interesting perspective emergesAs I said, the passage of taxes was only possible because the masses believed in the Robin Hood theory of economics, which was to take from the rich and give to everyone elseThe problem was that the government's appetite for money was so great that taxes soon needed to be levied on the middle class, and from there it kept "trickling down The rich, on the other hand, saw an opportunityThey do not play by the same set of rulesAs I've stated, the rich already knew about corporations, which became popular in the days of sailing ship | | Sunday, December 19th, 2010 | | 10:12 pm |
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“Just this morning,” replied Jason Bourne, @@@@@ “Just this morning,” replied Jason Bourne, his eyes cold“When Marie and the kids were airborne, the plane disappeared into the mists over Boston harbor and suddenly I was thereIn another plane, in another time, the words crackling out of a radio through the static‘Snake Lady, Snake Lady, abortSnake Lady, do you read me? Abort!’ I responded by turning the damn thing off and looked around at the men in the cabin, which seemed ready to break apart in the turbulence I studied each man, wondering, I guess, whether this one or that one would come out alive, whether I’d come out alive, and if we didn’t, how we would dieThen I saw two of the men rolling up their sleeves, comparing those small ugly tattoos on their forearms, those lousy little emblems that obsessed them—” “Nuy Dap Ranh,” said Conklin flatly“A woman’s face with snakes for strands of hairYou refused to have one done on you—” “I never considered it a mark of distinction,” interrupted Webb-Bourne, blinking“Somewhat the reverse, in fact “Initially it was meant for identification, not a standard or a banner of any distinction one way or the otherAn intricate tattoo on the underside of the forearm, the design and the colors produced by only one artist in SaigonNo one else could duplicate it “That old man made a lot of money during those years; he was special “Every officer in Command Headquarters who was connected to Medusa had oneThey were like manic kids who’d found secret code rings in cereal boxes “They weren’t kids, AlexManic, you can bet your ass on it, but not kidsThey were infected with a rotten virus called unaccountability, and more than a few millionaires were made in the ubiquitous Command SaigonThe real kids were being maimed and killed in the jungles while a lot of pressed khaki in the South had personal couriers routed through Switzerland and the banks on Zurich’s BahnhofstrasseYou could be speaking of some very important people in our government “Who are they?” asked Webb quietly, his glass poised in front of him “The ones I knew who were up to their necks in garbage I made damn sure faded after Saigon fellBut I was out of the field a couple of years before then, and nobody talks very much about those months and nothing at all about Snake Lady “Still, you’ve got to have some i | | Saturday, December 18th, 2010 | | 6:59 pm |
@@@@@* * Scarlett stood with the muddy train
of @@@@@* * Scarlett stood with the muddy train of her habit looped over her left arm and a glass of champagne in her right handThe paw of the fox that she'd been awarded would be mounted on a silver base, if she'd allow it, said John Morland"I'd love it, Sir John "Please call me Bart "Please call me ScarlettEverybody does, whether they're friends or not She was giddy and pink-cheeked from the exhilaration of the hunt and her success"I've never had a better day," she told BartOther riders had congratulated her, she saw the unmistakable admiration in the men's eyes, jealousy in the women's Everywhere she looked there were handsome men and beautiful women, silver trays of champagne, servants, wealth; people having a good time, a good lifeIt was like life before the War, only now she was grown up, she could do and say what she liked, and she was Scarlett O'Hara, country girl from North Georgia, in a baronet's castle partying with Lady this and Lord that and even a countess It was like a story in a book, and Scarlett's head was turnedShe could almost forget that Rhett was there, almost erase the memory of being insulted and despisedAnd her treacherous mind kept remembering things she had seen and heard as she rode back to the house after the hurt: Rhett acting like it didn't matter that she'd beaten him to the kill teasing the Countess as if she were just anybody at all looking so damned at ease and comfortable and not impressed "Congratulations, Scarlett Rhett was at her side, and she hadn't seen him approachingScarlett's arm jerked, and spilled on her skirts"Dammit, Rhett, do you have to sneak up on people like "I'm sorry Rhett offered her a handkerchief"And I'm sorry for my boorish behavior at the horse fairMy only excuse is that was shocked to see you there Scarlett took the handkerchief and bent over to wipe at dampness on her skirtsThere was no point to it; her habit already spattered with mud from the wild cross-country chase | | Friday, December 17th, 2010 | | 6:59 pm |
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