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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    11:56 am
    @@@@@Carlos had two reasons—revenge and the fact
    @@@@@Carlos had two reasons—revenge and the fact that he believes
    Bourne could identify him; the Medusans because Bourne had pieced together so much about
    them?”
    “That was the premise, yes,” agreed Conklin, nodding“It’s why I dug around and made those
    phone calls, never expecting to find what I didJesus, a global cartel born twenty years ago in
    Saigon, peopled by some of the biggest fish in and out of the government and the militaryIt was
    the kind of pay dirt I didn’t want and wasn’t looking forI thought I might dig up maybe ten or
    twelve hotshot millionaires with post-Saigon bank accounts that couldn’t bear scrutiny, but not this,
    not this Medusa
    “To put it as simply as possible,” continued Holland, frowning, his eyes again straying down to
    the papers in front of him, then up at Alex“Once the connection was made between Medusa and
    Carlos, word would be passed to the Jackal that there was a man Medusa wanted eliminated, and
    cost was no objectSo far, yes?”
    “The key here was the caliber and the status of those reaching Carlos,” explained Conklin
    “They had to be as close to bona fide Olympians as we could find, the kind of clients the Jackal
    doesn’t get and never got
    “Then the name of the target is revealed—say, in a way such as ‘John Smith, once known years
    ago as Jason Bourne’—and the Jackal is hookedBourne, the one man he wants dead above all
    othersThat’s why the Medusans reaching Carlos had to be so solid, so above questioning that
    Carlos accepts them and dismisses any sort of a trap
    “Because,” added the CIA’s director, “Jason Bourne came out of Saigon’s Medusa—a fact
    known to Carlos—but he never shared in the riches of the later, postwar MedusaThat’s the
    background scenario, isn’t it?”
    “The logic’s as clean as it can beFor three years he was used and damn near killed in a black
    operation, and along the way he supposedly discovered that more than a few undistinguished
    Saigon pricks were driving Jaguars and were sailing yachts and pulling down six-figure retainers
    while he went on a government pensionThat could try the patience of John the Baptist, to say
    nothing of Barabbas
    “It’s a terrific libretto,” allowed Holland, a slow smile breaking across his face“I can hear the
    tenors soaring in triumph and the Machiavellian bassos slinking offstage in defeatDon’t scowl
    at me, Alex, I mean it! It’s really ingeniousIt’s so inevitable it became a self-fulfilling prophecy
    “What the hell are you talking about?”
    “Your Bourne was right from the beginningIt all took place the way he saw it, but not in any
    way he could have imaginedBecause it was inevitable; somewhere there had to be a crosspollinator
    “Please come down from Mars and explain to an earthling, Peter
    “Medusa’s using the Jackal! N
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    We were there five minutes laterMy vision was as
    clear as it had been when I woke up that morning,
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    down my right side, I felt fine
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    I also felt a strong desire to drawI didn't know
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    "Let me clean off the side of your car," Ilse said
    "You're going to lie downYou look beat half to
    death
    She offered a wan smile"That's just the better
    halfRemember how Mom used to say that?"
    I nodded I
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    side of Big Pink"It's all hooked up and ready to
    go
    "Are you sure you're all right?"
    "Good to goI think you ate more of the tuna
    salad than I did
    She managed another smile"I always was partial
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    from headquartersI turned on the faucet and hosed off the
    side of the Malibu, taking more time than the job
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    really needed, wanting to make sure she was down
    for the countWhen I peeked in
    through the tiffany heart tag half-open door of the second bedroom,
    I saw her lying on her side, sleeping just as she
    had as a kid: one hand tucked under her cheek and
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    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    11:56 am
    @@@@@What gave away her identity was the dress
    @@@@@What gave
    away her identity was the dress she woreIt was
    covered with tic-tac-toe grids and the printed
    words I WIN, YOU WIN, over and overIlse had that
    dress when she was four or fiveabout the age
    of the twin girls in the family portrait I'd seen
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    on the second floor landing of El Palacio de
    Asesinos
    I tried to shout, to warn her not to go near the
    derelictIn any case
    it didn't seem to matterShe only sat there in
    her sweet little rowboat on the mild red rollers,
    watching and wearing Illy's tic-tac-toe dress
    I fell out of my bed, and on my bad sideI cried
    out in pain and rolled over on my back, listening
    to the waves from outside and the soft grinding of
    the shells under the houseThey told me where I
    was but did not comfort me
    My missing arm seemed to burnI had to put a stop
    to it or go crazy, and there was only one way to
    do thatI went upstairs and painted like a
    lunatic for the next three hoursI had no model
    on my table, no object in view out my windowIt was all in my headAnd as I
    worked, I realized this was what all the pictures
    had been struggling towardNot the girl in the
    rowboat, necessarily; she was probably just an
    added attraction, a toehold in realityIt was the
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    ship I had been after all alongThe ship and the
    sunsetWhen I thought back, I realized the irony
    of that: Hello, the pencil-sketch I'd made on the
    day I came, had been the closest
    iii
    I tumbled into bed around three-thirty and slept
    until nineI woke feeling refreshed, cleaned out,
    brand-newThe weather was fine: cloudless and
    warmer than it had been in a weekThe Baumgartens
    were getting ready to return north, but I had a
    spirited game of Frisbee with their boys on the
    beach before they leftMy appetite was high, my
    pain-level lo
    5:43 am
    @@@@@ “Was that her before, talking to
    @@@@@
    “Was that her before, talking to me–talking out loud?”
    “Yes
    “Can she… can you let her do that now?”
    I sighedI was already exhausted
    Can you get past me?I asked heran you talk to him?
    I… How? Where?
    I tried to flatten myself against the inside of my head
    Melanie struggled, but there was no way out
    Jared's lips came down on mine, hardMy eyes flew open in shockHis gold-flecked eyes were
    open, too, half an inch away
    She jerked our head back“Cut thatout! Don't touch her!”
    He smiled, the little creases feathering out around his eyes
    I tried to breathe again
    He left his arm around meWe walked out into the tunnel junction, and there was
    no one there
    “I'm warning you, Mel,” Jared said, still smiling widely“You better stay right here
    I'm not making any guarantees about what I will or won't do to get you back
    My stomach fluttered
    Tell him I'll throttle him if he touches you like that againut her threat was a joke, too
    “She's threatening your life right now,” I told him“But I think she's being facetious
    He laughed, giddy with relief“You're so serious all the time, Wanda
    “Your jokes aren't funny,” I mutter
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    12:03 pm
    @@@@@With a flourish, he held it up, displaying
    @@@@@With a flourish, he held it up, displaying the label on the side“How much did you get?”
    “Two casesAnd we've found a much better way to renew our stores than to have Wanda
    stabbing herself
    Doc did not laugh at Jared's jokeInstead he turned to stare at me piercinglyWe both must
    have been thinking the same thing:Convenient, since Wanda won't be around
    “Did you get the cryotanks?” he asked, more subdued
    Jared noticed the look and the tensionHe glanced at me, his expression impossible to readIt was all the car could hold
    While I spoke, Jared yanked on the rope behind himWith a clatter of loose rock, the second
    box of Heal, followed by the tanks, tumbled onto the floor behind himThe tanks clanked like
    metal, though they were built of no element that existed on this planetI'd told him it was fine
    to treat the empty cryotanks roughly; they were built to withstand much worse abuse than being
    tugged through a stone channelThey glinted on the floor now, looking shiny and pristine
    Doc picked one up, freeing it from the rope, and turned it around in his hands
    “Ten?” The number seemed to surprise himDid he think it too many? Or not enough? “Are
    they difficult to use?”
    “No
    Doc nodded, his eyes examining the alien constructionI could feel Jared watching me, but I
    kept my eyes on Doc
    “What did Jeb, Brandt, and Aaron say?” I asked
    Doc looked up, locked his eyes on mine“They're… in agreement with your terms
    I nodded, not convinced“I won't show you unless I believe t
    5:43 am
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    He passed by the strip of beach where the santos cartier kelp had washed ashore, and curious, he went over to examine itGiant kelp, I should know something about that, it was my major only I've forgotten it allThe thought made him bitterWhat's the use of all that education, when you can't even remember it? He looked down at the kelp, and held the head of one in his handIt looks like a snakeSuch a simple organismIt's got an anchor in its tail where it fastens onto a rock, and chloe black it's got a mouth at the top, and a connection between themWhat could be simpler? A basic organism, brown algae, that's what it is, if I were to try it would all come back to meMacrocystis something, that's what it was called, common name Devil's Shoelace, or is that something else? Macrocystis pyrifera, I remember we had a lecture on itMaybe I should do something with my botany yet, it's only twelve years since I had it, I chanel ceramic watch could refresh my memory and there'll be better jobs now in thatIt's a fascinating subject
    He dropped the head of the kelpThat's an unusual plant, I wish I could remember more about itAll those marine plants are well worth studying, plankton, green algae, brown algae, red algae, I'm surprised at how much I rememberI'll have to write Dora and ask her if she can find my botany notebooks, maybe I should start studying it gucci twirl watch ag
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    12:06 pm
    @@@@@(Her husband has been commissioned after
    @@@@@(Her husband has been commissioned after 1918 One of my more recurrent regrets is that I never learned to dance well(His manner, which is to set him off from other professional officers, is beginning in these years(At the other end of the officers' club, Margaret is the center of a circle of menShe is laughing loudly now, her hand on the sleeve of a second lieutenant's blouse He stares across at her with loathing and disgust
    From Webster's: hatred, n strong aversion or detestation; settled ill will or malevolence
    A thread in most marriages, growing dominant in Cummings's
    The cold form of it

    He is all application now, all studyAt night, in the parlor of the succession of post houses in which they live, he reads five or six nights a weekThere is all the education he has missed, and he takes giant strides in recouping itThere is philosophy first, and then political science, sociology, psychology, history, even literature and artHe absorbs it all with the fantastic powers of memory and assimilation he can exhibit at times, absorbs it and immediately transmutes it into something else, satisfies the dominant warp of his mind
    It comes out a little in the infrequent intellectual discussions he can find on an Army postI find Freud rather stimulating, he saysThe idea is that man is a worthless bastard, and the only problem is how best to control him
    In 1931 Spengler is particularly congenialTo his company he makes short cautious talks
    I don't have to tell you men how bad things areSome of you are in the Army for just that reasonBut I want to point out that we may have an important functionIf you read the papers you see where troops are being called out everywhereThere may be a great many changes, and your duty in such a case will be to obey the orders of the government as they come down through
    5:51 am
    @@@@@ Union military officials were determined
    @@@@@
    Union
    military officials were determined to destroy the flower-filled,
    pastel-painted old cityThe harbor entrance was blockaded first;
    later, gun emplacements on nearby islands fired shells into narrow
    streets and houses in a siege that lasted for almost six hundred days;
    finally Sherman's Army came with its torches to burn the plantation
    houses on the riversWhen the Union troops marched in to occupy
    their
    prize, they faced a desolate ruinWild grasses grew in the streets
    and choked the gardens of windowless, shell-scarred, broken-roofed
    housesThey also faced a decimated population that had become as
    proud and arrogant as their Northern reputationOutsiders were no
    longer welcome in CharlestonPeople repaired their roofs and
    windows
    as best they could and locked their doorsAmong themselves, they
    restored the cherished habits of gaietyThey met for dancing in
    looted drawing rooms where they toasted the South in water from
    cracked
    and mended cups"Starvation parties," they called their gatherings,
    and laughedThe days of French champagne in crystal flutes might be
    gone, but they were still CharlestoniansThey had lost their
    possessions but they had almost two centuries of shared tradition and
    styleNo one could take that from themThe War was over, but they
    weren't defeatedThey would never be defeated, no matter what the
    damn Yankees didNot so long as they stuck togetherAnd kept
    everyone else out of their closed circleThe military occupation and
    the outrages of Reconstruction tested their mettle, but they held
    fast
    One by one the other states of the Confederacy were readmitted to the
    Union, their state governments restored to the state's populationBut
    not South CarolinaAnd especially not CharlestonMore than nine
    years after the end of the War, armed soldiers patrolled the old
    streets, enforcing curfewConstantly changing regulations covered
    everything from the price of paper to the licensing of marriages and
    funerals
    Charleston became more and more derelict outwardly, but ever
    stronger
    in its determination to preserve the old ways of lifeThe Bachelors'
    Cotillion was reborn, with a new generation to fill the gaps caused by
    the carnage of Bull Run, Antietam, and Chancellorsvill
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    11:56 am
    @@@@@Over Rhett's shoulder she could see
    @@@@@Over Rhett's shoulder she could see the
    window becoming more distinctI wonder what he's looking for so
    hard
    Are those Crackers outside again? Or Clinch Dawkins? A cock crowed,
    and her whole body jerkedThen the first weak rays of red dawn light
    touched the scene outside the windowThe jagged tumbled brick
    ruins
    of Dunmore Landing's house were dramatically lit, red against the dark
    sky behind themIt looked as if they were still
    smolderingRhett was watching the death throes of hishome"Don't
    look, Rhett," she begged, "don't lookIt will only break your
    heart
    "I should have been here, I might have stopped them Rhett's voice
    was
    slow, distant, as if he didn't know that he was speakingThere must have been hundreds of themThey would
    have
    shot you and burned everything anyhow!"
    "They didn't shoot Julia Ashley," said Rhett
    But he sounded different nowThere was a glimmer of wryness,
    almost
    humor, beneath his wordsThe red light outside was changing,
    becoming
    more golden, and the ruins were only blackened bricks and chimneys
    with
    the sun-touched sheen of dew on them
    Rhett'sswivel chair swung aroundHe rubbed his hand over hischin,
    and
    Scarlett could almost hear the rasp of the unshaven whiskers
    He had shadows under his eyes, visible even in the shadowy room,
    and
    his black hair was dishevelled, a cowlick standing up on the crown, an
    untidy lock falling on his foreheadHe stood, yawned, and stretched
    "I believe it's safe to sleep a little nowYou and Rosemary stay in
    the house till I wake up He lay down on a wooden bench and fell
    asleep at onceScarlett watched him as he sleptI mustn't ever tell
    him again that I love h
    5:43 am
    @@@@@They’re not so spoiled and nobody
    @@@@@They’re not so spoiled and nobody really
    misses them if they don’t show up one day
    Spread across the table were Bourne’s three passports, courtesy of Cactus in Washington, as
    well as the gun and the knife taken from him last night“You’re very convincing, but it doesn’t
    solve anything, does it?”
    “We’ll see,” answered Santos“I’ll accept your money now—for my best efforts—but instead of
    your flying to London, have London fly to ParisWhen he arrives at the Pont-
    Royal, you’ll call me—I’ll give you my private number, of course—and we’ll play the Soviets’
    gameExchange for exchange, like walking across a bridge with our respective prisoners in tow
    The money for the information
    “You’re crazy, SantosMy clients don’t expose themselves that wayYou just lost the rest of the
    three million
    “Why not try them? They could always hire a blind, couldn’t they? An innocent tourist with a
    false bottom in his or her Louis Vuitton carryon? No alarms are set off with paperTry it! It is the
    only way you’ll get what you want, monsieur
    “I’ll do what I can,” said Bourne
    “Here is my telephone Santos picked up a prearranged card from the table with numbers
    scrawled across it“Call me when London arrivesIn the meantime, I assure you, you will be
    watched
    “You’re a real swell guy
    “I’ll escort you to the elevator
    Marie sat up in bed, sipping hot tea in the dark room, listening to the sounds of Paris outside the
    windowsNot only was sleep impossible, but it was intolerable, a waste of time when every hour
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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    countedShe had taken the earliest flight from Marseilles to Paris and had gone directly to the
    Meunce on the rue de Rivoli, the same hotel where she had waited thirteen years ago, waited for a
    man to listen to reason or lose his life, and in doing so, losing a large part of hersShe had ordered
    a pot of tea then, and he had come back to her; she ordered tea now from the night floor steward,
    absently perhaps, as if the repeated ritual might bring about a repetition of his appearance so long
    ago
    Oh, God, she had seen him! It was no illusion, no mistake, it was David! She had left the hotel at
    midmorning and begun wandering, going down the list she had made on the plane, heading from
    one location to another without any logical sequence in mind, simply following the succession of
    places as they had come to her—that was her sequenceIt was a lesson she had learned from Jason
    Bourne thirteen years ago: When running or hunting, analyze your options but remember your f
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
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    The doors opened and the general walked out, instantly aware of the pervasive silence that filled
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    complex the size of a czar’s grand ballroom but without the slightest attempt at decorA
    thousand pieces of equipment in black and gray, several hundred personnel in pristine white
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    The old soldier trudged up a familiar path to the farthest aisle on the right, then left to the last
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    and I love her, but sometimes she thinks I'm her
    Dad and it's Miami circa nineteen thirty-four
    Sometimes she pops one of her china people into a
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    pond behind the balenciaga handbag tennis courtI have to get em out
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    chopping off his dick, then putting out his hermes replica eyes
    with a hot toasting-fork? Was it that momentary
    thing, muchacho?" Wireman made the thumb and
    forefinger of one hand into a gun and pointed it
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    know jealousy
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    "Yes," I said, thinking that was so adult it hurt
    I remembered finding the picture of them at the
    roadside stand with their arms around each other,
    and touching it with my missing right handThen
    rushing up to Little Pink with Reba clamped
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    Keeping up appearances was not something they'd worried about beforeOf course, I was the
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    might be seen
    They all hated sleeping in the roadside inns–succumbing to unconsciousness inside the very
    mouth of the enemyIt scared them more than anything else we didIan said he'd rather charge
    an armed SeekerHe mostly slept in the van during the day and then sat up at night, acting
    as sentry
    For me, it was as easy as shopping in the storesI checked us in, made conversation with the
    clerkTold the story about my photographer partner and the friend who was traveling with us
    (just in case someone saw all three of us enter the room)I used generic names from
    unremarkable planetsSometimes we were Bats: Word Keeper, Sings the Egg Song, and Sky
    RoostSometimes we were See Weeds: Twisting Eyes, Sees to the Surface, and Second
    SunriseI changed the names every time, not that anyone was trying to trace our pathIt just
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    about espionage
    The hard part, the part I really minded–not that I would say this in front of Kyle, who was so
    quick to doubt my intentions–was all the taking without giving anything backIt had never
    bothered me to shop in San DiegoI took what I needed and nothing moreThen I spent my
    days at the university giving back to the community by sharing my knowledgeNot a taxing
    Calling, but one I took seriouslyI took my turns at the less-appealing choresI did my day
    collecting garbage and cleaning streets
    And now I took so much more and gave nothing in returnIt made me feel selfish and wron
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    12:06 pm
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    Why did that bring tears to my eyes? Was I really so petty?
    No,Mel assured mend they'll miss you–of course they willAll the best people here will feel
    your loss
    She seemed to finally accept my decision
    Not accept,she disagreed just gucci boston bag can't see any way to stop youAnd I can feel how close it isIsn't that funny? I'm absolutely terrified
    That makes two of us
    “Um… why?”
    “For trying to kill you,” he said casually“Please tell me you have some kind of recording device birkin bag hermes available, Doc“This moment should be preservedI never thought I'd live to see the day
    that Kyle O'Shea would admit to being wrongThat ought toshock you awake
    “Jodi, baby, don't you want to defend me? Tell Ian I neverhave been wrong beforeIt was chanel ceramic watch nice to know that I'd earned Kyle's acceptance before I leftI hadn't
    expected that much
    There was no more I could do hereThere was no point in lingeringJodi would either come
    back or she would not, but neither outcome would change my path replica rolex submariner now
    So I proceeded to my third and final deed: I lied
    I stepped away from the cot, took a deep breath, and stretched my arms
    “I'm tired, Ian,” I said
    Was it really a lie? It didn't sound so falseIt had been a long, long day, this, my last louis vuitton denim
    5:43 am
    @@@@@ The Time Machine: ROBERT HEARN THE
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    The Time Machine:
    ROBERT HEARN
    THE ADDLED WOMB

    A big man with a shock of black hair and a small sharp voice, a heavy immobile faceHis brown eyes, imperturbable, stared out coldly above the short blunted and slightly hooked arc of his noseHis wide thin mouth was unexpressive, a top ledge to the solid mass of his chinHe liked very few people and most men sensed it uneasily after talking to him for a few minutes

    In the center is the city, lashing at one's senses
    For a thousand, two thousand miles the roads and the earth have led up to itThe mountains have snubbed down to hills, lapsed into plains, rolled on majestically in leisurely convolutions and regroupingsNo one ever really comprehends it, the vast table of America, and the pin points, the accretions, the big city and the iron trails leading to it
    (All the frenetic schemings, the cigar smoke, the coke smoke, the carbolic and retch of the el, the frightened passion for movement of an ant nest suddenly jarred, the vast hurried grabbing plans of thousands of men whose importance is confined to a street, a café, and there is no other sense than one of the presentHistory is remembered with a shrug; its superlatives do not match ours
    The immense ego of city people
    How do you conceive your own death, your own unimportance in all that man-created immensity, through all the marble vaults and brick ridges and the furnaces that lead to the market place? You always believe somehow that the world will end with your deathIt is all more intense, more violent, more rutted than life anywhere else
    And in the humus around the mushroom stem grow the suburbs

    Since we added that last wing, we got twenty-two rooms now, Lord knows what the hell we're gonna do with 'em, Bill Hearn shoutsBut Ina you can't tell her a goddam thing, she figures she needs it, and we got it
    Now, Bill, Ina says(A pretty woman who looks younger, slimmer, than the mother of a twelve-year-old sonThere is the thin aseptic mouth, the slightly bucked teeth, the midwestern woman's denial of juice
    Well, I'm a regular as an old shoe, Bill Hearn saysThere ain't any pretense about me, and if I come off an old scratch farm, I ain't a bit ashamed of itThe way I see it a man needs a parlor or a living room, a coupla bedrooms, a kitchen, maybe a rumpus room downstairs, and y' got enough, agree with me, MrsJudd is plumper, softer, more vacant-lookingJudd and I are mighty pleased with our place in Alden Park Manor, an apartment's so easy to keep
    Nice place, Germanto
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    12:06 pm
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    Red sighed to himselfStanley's ambition made him contemptuous, but there was an uneasy basis to his scorn which he partially understoodHe was the least bit enviousThe contradiction ended by depressing himAaah, he thought, every man jack eats his heart out, and what does it get rolex watch prices him? He could see Stanley rising higher and higher in the months to come, and yet he would never be happyAny of us'll be lucky if we don't get a bullet in our gutHe felt his skin tightening across his back, and despite himself he turned around to look at the bare metal wall of the bow rampSince the day when he had lain helpless on the ground waiting for the Japanese soldier omega ladies watch to kill him he had been feeling a recurring anxietyOften in the night he would awaken with a start, and turn around in his blankets, trembling unreasonably
    What the hell do I want to be a noncom for? he asked himselfYou get a guy killed in your squad and you never stop thinking about itI don't want to take no orders from nobody, and I don't want nobody to give 'em to meHe dolce sale looked at Hearn standing in the rear of the boat, and felt a dull anger working in his throatA bunch of college kids who think it's like going to a football gameThat bastard is glad to be going out on thisDeep within him a passionate hatred was brewing for everyone in the Army who endangered his lifeWhat the hell is it to the General if we get knocked off? Just an chanel jewelry experiment that got fugged-up
    Stanley amused him, roused his ironyHis emotions finally boiled into speech"Hey, Stanley, you think they'll give you a Silver Star?"
    Stanley looked at him, tensing instantly
    "Just wait, sonny," Red saidHe guffawed loudly and turned to Gallagher"They'll give him the Purple Ass-hole
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    5:51 am
    @@@@@Besides, everything will be all right
    @@@@@Besides, everything will be all
    right nowRoss and his friends are going to patrol every night
    Ross! Scarlett screamed inwardlyWhat could a drunk like Ross
    Butler
    do? Or any of the Charleston men? Most of them were old men or
    cripples or still boysIf they'd been any use, they wouldn't have
    lost the stupid WarWhy should anyone trust them to fight the
    Yankees
    now? She battered her need against Eleanor Butler's impenetrable
    optimism, and she lostFor a while it seemed the patrols were
    effectiveThere were no reports of intruders, and everyone calmed
    downScarlett had her first "at home" day, which was so well
    attended
    that her Aunt Eulalie complained that there wasn't enough cake to go
    aroundEleanor Butler tore up the note she had written RhettPeople
    went to church, went shopping, played whist, took out their evening
    clothes to air them and make repairs before the Season began
    Scarlett
    came in from her round of morning calls with glowing cheeks from
    walking too quicklyButler?" she demanded of
    Manigo
    When he replied that she was in the kitchen Scarlett ran to the back of
    the houseEleanor Butler looked up at Scarlett's rushed entry"Good
    news, Scarlett! I had a letter from Rosemary this morningShe'll be
    home day after tomorrow
    "Better wire her to stay," Scarlett snappedHer voice was harsh,
    emotionless"The Yankee got to Harriet Madison last night She looked at the table near Mrs
    "Ducks? Those are ducks you're plucking! The plantation boat came!
    I can go back to the plantation on it to get Rhett
    "You can't go alone in that boat with four men, Scarlett
    "I can take Pansy, whether she likes it or notHere, give me a sack
    and some of those biscui
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    11:56 am
    @@@@@"Yes, she would, for her portraitShe could
    @@@@@"Yes, she would, for her
    portraitShe could be beautiful or not, as she choseShe chose to
    be anything she liked
    She had a quality of absolute stillness sometimes, and you'd almost
    forget she was thereThen she'd turn her slanted dark eyes on you,
    and suddenly you'd find yourself irresistibly drawn to her
    Children swarmed to herIt drove
    men out of their minds"Your grandfather was every inch the military
    man, accustomed to commandBut your grandmother had only to
    smile,
    and he became her slaveShe was considerably older than he was,
    and
    it made no differenceShe was a Catholic, and it made no difference;
    she insisted on a Catholic household and Catholicism for their
    children, and he agreed to everything, although he was rigidly
    ProtestantHe would have agreed to let them be Druids, if that was
    her desireShe was all the world to him"I remember when she
    decided that she must be surrounded by pink light because she was
    getting olderHe said that no soldier would live in a room with so
    much as a pink shade on a lampIt was too effeminateShe said it
    would make her happy, lots of pinkIt ended up that not only the
    walls of the rooms inside were painted, but even the house itselfHe
    would do anything to make her happy
    "It was all wonderfully mad and romanticWhen she
    died,
    he died too, in a wayHe kept everything in the house exactly the
    way
    she had left itIt was hard on your mother and her sisters, I
    fear
    In the portrait Solange Robillard was wearing a dress that clung to her
    body so tightly that it suggested that she was wearing nothing under
    itThat must be what drove men out of their minds, including her
    husband, Scarlett thou
    5:43 am
    @@@@@It was the longest she had slept since that
    @@@@@It was the longest she had
    slept since that first night on Tranquility Isle, itself a distant memory now except for the very real
    pain of not seeing and hearing the childrenDon’t think about them, it hurts too muchNo, think about Jason Bourne! Where? Concentrate!
    She put down the Paris Tribune and poured herself a third cup of black coffee, glancing over at
    the French doors that led to a small balcony overlooking the rue de RivoliIt disturbed her that the
    once bright morning had turned into a dismal gray daySoon the rain would come, making her
    search in the streets even more difficultResigned, she sipped her coffee and replaced the elegant
    cup in the elegant saucer, annoyed that it was not one of the simple pottery mugs favored by David
    and her in their rustic country kitchen in MaineOh, God, would they ever be back there again?
    Don’t think about such things! Concentrate! Out of the question
    She picked up the Tribune, aimlessly scanning the pages, seeing only isolated words, no
    sentences or paragraphs, no continuity of thought or meaning, merely wordsThen one stood out at
    the bottom of a meaningless column, a single meaningless line bracketed at the bottom of a
    meaningless page
    The word was Memom, followed by a telephone number; and despite the fact that the Tribune
    was printed in English, the French in her switchable French-thinking brain absently translated the
    word as MaymohmShe was about to turn the page when a signal from another part of her brain
    screamed Stop!
    Memom mommy—turned around by a child struggling with his earliest attempts at language
    Meemom! Jamie—their Jamie! The funny inverted name he had called her for several weeks!
    David had joked about it while she, frightened, had wondered if their son had dyslexia
    “He could also just be confused, memom,” David had laughed
    David! She snapped up the page; it was the financial section of the paper, the section she
    instinctively gravitated to every morning over coffeeDavid was sending her a message! She
    pushed back her chair, crashing it to the floor as she grabbed the paper and rushed to the telephone
    on the deskHer hands trembling, she dialed the numberThere was no answer, and thinking that in
    her panic she had made an error or had not used the local Paris digit, she dialed again, now slowly,
    preciselyBut it was David, she felt it, she knew it! He had been looking for her at the
    Trocadéro and now he was using a briefly employed nickname only the two of them would know!
    My love, my love, I’ve found you! She also knew she could not stay in the confining quarters of
    the small hotel suite, pacing up and down and dialing every other minute, driving herself crazy with
    every unanswered ringWhen you’re stressed out and spinning until you think you’ll blow apart,
    find someplace where you can keep moving without being noticedKeep moving! That’s vitalYou
    can’t let your head explodeOne of the lessons from Jason BourneHer head spinning, Marie
    dressed more rapidly than she had ever done in her life
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