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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:15 am
    @@@@@Gallagher sat there and waited for the rain
    @@@@@Gallagher sat there and waited for the rain that did not comeHe was feeling pleasurably moody, he was enjoying the barrenness and brooding of the scene, the remote froth of the waves against the shoreWithout quite realizing it, he began to draw a woman in the sandShe had great breasts and a narrow waist and very wide full hipsHe looked at it soberly, and remembered that Mary was very ashamed of her tiny breastsShe had said once, "I wish they were big
    "Why?"
    "I know you like them better that way"Naw, they're just right the way they are
    An eddy of tenderness wound through himShe had been very small, and he thought of how she had seemed like a little girl to him at times, and how he had been amused at her seriousnessHe laughed softly, and then abruptly, with no defenses raised, he realized that she was utterly dead and he would never see her any moreThe knowledge flowed through him without resistance, like a torrent of water when a floodgate is loweredHe heard himself sob, and then was no longer conscious of the choking sounds of his anguishHe felt only a vast grief which mellowed him, dissolved the cysts of his bitterness and resentment and fear, and left him spent and weeping on the sandThe softer gentler memories of Mary were coming back to him; he recalled the sweltering liquid rhythms of their bodies against each other in heat and love, he felt dumbly the meaning of her smile when she handed him his lunch box as he went to work in the morning; he recalled the sad clinging tenderness they had felt for each other on the last night of his last furlough before he went overseasThey had gone on a moonlight excursion in Boston Harbor and he remembered with a pang how they had sat silent in the stern of the ship, holding each other's hands, and watching with a tender absorbed silence the turbulence of the wakeShe was a good girl, he said to himselfHe was thinking without quite phrasing it that no other person had ever understood him so fully, and he felt a secret relief as he realized that she had understood him and still loved himThis opened again the wound of all his loss, and he lay weeping bitterly for many minutes, unconscious of where he was, feeling nothing but the complete sorrow in his bodyHe would think of the last letter every now and then, and this would send him off into a new spasm of griefHe must have cried for almost an hour
    At last he was spent, and he felt clean and gentleFor the first time he remembered that he had a child, and he wondered what it looked like and what its sex might beIt gave him a delicate joy for an instant, and he thought, If it's a boy, I'm gonna train him earlyHe'll be a pro baseball player, that's where the money
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    "Well, we really shouldn't be talking like this on Sunday," Conn agreed, "but what the hell, we're all men He lit a cigarette, and speared the match in the sandThe crack of Dalleson's carbine sounded again, and a few shouts came from the water where some officers were having a water fight in the shallow surf"I've made a study of parties," Conn said, "and there's just two ingredients to have a good one, enough to drink and some willing slitsReady, willing, and able
    Hearn squinted along the sandYou could reduce it probably to four kinds of partiesThere were the ones that made the newspaper society columns with the senators and the important representatives, the industrialists, the high brass, the foreign dignitaries, even his father had black chanel bag gone to one of them once, and been miserable no doubtBut then they all were miserable thereIt was the highest flowering of an industrial capitalist culture, and a good time was segregate from the social forms, the power swappings, the highly elaborated weather talkEveryone hated everyone else as a matter of course, for if they came to do business they found they could not, and if they came as snobs bearing gifts they were contemptuous of the men who had the power and lacked the conventional aptitudes
    There were the hotel parties with field officers and congenital lower-level brass, the American Legion -- Washington Extension, and big small-business men with nice factories in Indiana, and call girlsA desperate boredom always lay over those mens gucci watches things until they got drunk, and then they all had a wonderful time, and went back with refreshed loins and new Pullman tales to their desks in Washington and IndianaSometimes, if you could get a hold of a representative who was a regular guy he would come along, and your business would be consummated with a couple of drunken bear hugs, a sentimental cognition that everybody was a hell of a good guy, and a call girl yelling into your ear, "Break it up, honey, break it up His father had never mentioned it, but of course he had gone to that kind of party too
    There were the parties his own friends gave, with the quiet sustained drinking and essential joylessnessAll the American college intellectuals, the ones who weren't sick, with their clear gold gucci logical voices, their good manners, their kindness, their tact and their miserable, dreary and lucid intelligencesThey were all in government now, or they wore bars and had hush-hush jobs, and they talked of Roger who had been lost on some OSS mission, or they analyzed politics, sometimes hopefully, sometimes sadly, with a detached and helpless and intrinsically superior attitudeThere was good wit, incisive but always peripheral information, and the dry dejuiced hopelessness of all of them with their rational desiccated minds and their wistful contemplation of lusts and evils they would never understand with their bodiesWilliam Blake angels, gray and clear, hovering over horseshit
    And Dove's partiesBut of course they were common to San Chanel Bracelets Francisco and Chicago and Los Angeles and New York at timesThe American Legion -- Washington Extension, Junior AuxiliaryOnly with something moreIn a proper light with proper glasses, these parties were sometimes magical and sad, festooned with all the echoes of all the trains that had brought them there, all the advance awarenesses of the great hollow stations that would bear them away again, And they were always young, Air Corps pilots and ensigns, and good-looking girls in fur coats, and always the government secretary or two, the working girl as a carry-over from the fraternity parties when she was always the girl who could be made because in some mysterious way the women of the lower classes could be depended upon to copulate like jack Tiffany Bracelets rabbit
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    2:15 am
    @@@@@She wished that it could last forever, and
    @@@@@She wished that it
    could last forever, and she begged Miss Eleanor to tell about Cousin
    Townsend"Townsend's not really a cousin-cousin, you know, only a
    third cousin twice removed, but he is the direct descendent of
    Great-GreatGrandfather Ellinton, only son of an eldest son of an eldest
    sonSo he inherited that original land grant, and the Ellinton
    gambler's fever, and the Ellinton luckThey were always lucky, the
    EllintonsExcept for one thing: there's another Ellinton family
    trait, the boys are always cross-eyedTownsend married an
    extremely
    beautiful girl from a fine Philadelphia family-Philadelphia called it
    the wedding of beauty and the beast
    But the girl's father was a lawyer and a very sensible man about
    property, and Townsend was fabulously richTownsend and his wife
    settled in BaltimoreThen, of course, the War cameTownsend's wife
    went running home to her family the minute Townsend went off to join
    General Lee's armyShe was a Yankee, after all, and Townsend would
    more than likely get killedHe couldn't shoot a barn, much less a
    barn door, because of his cross eyesHowever, he still had the
    Ellinton luckHe never got anything worse than chilblains although he
    served all the way through to Appomattox
    Meanwhile, his wife's three brothers and her father were all killed,
    fighting in the Union ArmySo she inherited everything piled up by
    her careful father and his careful ancestors
    Townsend's living like a king in Philadelphia and doesn't care a fig
    that all his property in Savannah was confiscated by Sherman
    Did you see him, Rhett? How is he?"
    "More cross-eyed than ever, with two cross-eyed sons and a daughter
    that, thank God, takes after her mother Scarlett hardly heard
    Rhett's
    answer"Did you say the Ellintons were from Savannah, Miss Eleanor?
    My mother was from Savannah," she said eagerlyThe crisscross of
    relations that was so much a part of Southern life had long been a
    frustrating lack in her ownEveryone she knew had a network of
    cousins and uncles and aunts that covered generations and hundreds
    of
    milesPauline and Eulalie had no childrenGerald
    O'Hara's brothers in Savannah were childless, tooThere must be lots
    of O'Haras still in Ireland, but that did her no good, and all the
    Robillards except her grandfather were gone from Savanna
    2:11 am
    @@@@@What went wrong? I was so sure that if I
    @@@@@What went wrong? I was so sure that if I could
    just have enough money, I'd be safeNow I'm rich, and I feel more
    afraid than ever before in my whole lifeBut when summer came
    there
    was no visit by Rhett, no word from himScarlett hurried home from
    the
    store every morning so she'd be there if he was on the midday train
    In the evening she wore her most becoming gown and her pearls for
    supper, in case he was coming some other wayThe long table
    stretched
    before her gleaming with silver and heavy damask starched to a shine
    It was then that she began to drink steadily-to shut out the silence
    while she listened for his footstepsShe didn't think anything of it
    when she began having sherry in the afternoon-after all, taking a glass
    or two of sherry was a ladylike thing to doAnd she hardly noticed
    when she changed from sherry to whiskey or when she first needed
    a
    drink to do the store accounts because it depressed her that business
    was falling off so or when she began leaving the food on her plate
    because alcohol satisfied her hunger better or when she began to
    take a glass of brandy as soon as she got up in the morning
    She hardly even noticed when summer became fallPansy brought
    the
    afternoon mail to the bedroom on a trayLately Scarlett had tried
    sleeping for a while after dinnerIt filled up part of the empty
    afternoon, and it gave her some rest, a relief denied to her at
    night
    "You want I should bring you a pot of coffee or something, Miss
    Scarlett?"
    "No Scarlett took the topmost letter and Aunt
    Eulalie always wrote on both sides of the thin paper, and often she
    "crossed" the letter, writing on the page then turning it to a right
    angle and writing across the previous lines
    All to say a great deal about precious littleThe unseasonably warm
    autumn she said that every year Aunt Pauline having trouble
    with her knee she'd had trouble with her knee as long as Scarlett
    could remember a visit to Sister Mary Joseph
    Scarlett made a fa
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    2:15 am
    @@@@@The impossible! The Jackal’s van blew up,
    @@@@@The impossible!
    The Jackal’s van blew up, the explosion firing the dark Paris sky, and the moment it happened a
    brown limousine screeched around the nearest corner, the windows open, men in the black spaces,
    weapons in their grips, spraying the entire area with thunderous, indiscriminate fireJason lunged
    into the nearest recess, curling up into a fetal position in the shadows, accepting the fact—not in
    fear but in fury—that it might well be his last moments of lifeFailed Marie and his
    children! He spun off the concrete, the weapon in his handHe would kill, kill!
    That was the way of Jason Bourne
    Then the incredible happenedA siren? The police? The brown limousine shot
    forward, skirting the flaming wreck of the Jackal’s van and disappeared into the dark streets as a
    patrol car raced out of the opposing darkness, its siren screaming, the tires screeching as it skidded
    to a stop only yards from the flames of the demolished vehicleNothing made sense! thought Jason
    Where before there had been five patrol cars, only one had returnedWhy? And even that question
    was superfluousCarlos had mounted a strategy employing not one but seven, conceivably eight,
    decoys, all expendable, all led to their terrible death by the consummate self-protectorThe Jackal
    had sprung himself from the trap that had been reversed by his hated quarry, Delta, the product of
    Medusa, a creation of American intelligenceOnce again, the assassin had outthought him, but he
    had not killed himThere would be another day, another night
    “Bernardine!” screamed the Deuxième official who less than thirty minutes ago had officially
    disowned his colleagueLeaping out of the patrol car, the man shouted again“Bernardine! Where
    are you? My God, where are you? I came back, old friend, for I could not leave you! My God,
    you were right, I see that now for myself! Oh, Christ, tell me you’re alive! Answer me!”
    “Another is dead,” came the reply from Bernardine as his gaunt figure walked slowly, with
    difficulty, out of the storefront two hundred feet north of Bourne“I tried to tell you but you would
    not listen—”
    “I was perhaps too hasty!” roared the official, running to the old man and embracing him as the
    others in the patrol car, their arms crossed in front of their faces, surrounded the burning van but at
    a considerable distance“I’ve radioed for our people to return!” added the official“You must
    believe me, old friend, I came back because I couldn’t leave you in anger, not my old comradeI
    had no idea that pig from the newspaper actually assaulted you, struck youHe told me and I threw
    him out! I came back for you, you see that, don’t you? But, my God, I never expected anything
    like this!”
    “It’s horrible,” said the Deuxième veteran, while cautiously, his eyes straying rapidly up and
    down the boulevard, he surveyed the areaHe specifically noted the many frightened, intense faces
    in the windows of the three stone buildin
    2:12 am
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    “Shouldn’t you go with them?” asked Conklin, looking at Peter
    “Why not you?”
    “Goddamn it, you’re the directorYou should insist!”
    “You’re his closest friend
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    “Mine disappeared when Mo chloe paddington dismissed usCome on, let’s have some coffeeThis place gives
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
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    for a couple of months, but when I ran my eye over
    them, I saw he was rightI hadn't meant to put
    them in chronological order - not consciously -
    but that was what I had done"Earliest to most recent
    He indicated the louis vuitton vernis last four paintings - the ones
    I'd come to think of as my sunset-compositesTo
    one I'd added a nautilus shell, to one a compact
    disc with the word Memorex printed across it (and
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    third a dead seagull I'd found on the beach, only
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    realized he was excited, and that was when I
    started to get excited
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    "The rest of these fucking things He gave that
    little yipping laugh againHe walked in a circle
    around the room, stepping onto the treadmill and
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    bitterlyHe put his hands in his graying hair and
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    At last he came back
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    My question was whether or not I couldIt was
    harder than snapping your fingers; even than
    snapping the fingers of a hand that wasn't there
    A wave surged in, one big enough to knock me down
    For a moment I was under, and breathing waterI
    came up splutteringThe backrun tried to pull me
    out omega ladies watch with the sand and shellsI pushed shoreward
    with my good foot, even kicking feebly with my bad
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    confused about some things, but I didn't want to
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    about thatI crawled out of the water with my
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    When I finally got to dry sand, I rolled over and
    stared up into the skyA fat crescent moon sailed
    the deepening velvet above Big Pink's roofpeakIt
    looked very serene up thereDown here was a man
    who felt the opposite of serene: shaking and sad
    and angryI turned my head to look at the stump
    of my arm, then up at the moon again
    "No more peeking," I said"The Cartier Tortue new deal starts
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    there before me), we fool ourselves so much we
    could do it for a living
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    2:15 am
    @@@@@Many parents never even meet their youngI
    @@@@@Many parents never even meet their youngI wonder…” I trailed off, my thoughts full of
    speculation
    The mother lifted her face to her partner, and he kissed her lipsThe human child crowed with
    delightPerhaps, someday, some of my kind and some of yours will live in peaceWouldn't that
    be… strange?”
    Neither man could tear his eyes from the miracle in front of them
    The family was leavingThe mother dusted the sand off her jeans while the father took the boy
    Then, holding hands that they swung between them, the souls strolled toward the apartments
    with their human child
    Ian swallowed loudly
    We didn't speak for the rest of the evening, all of us made thoughtful by what we'd seenWe
    went to sleep early, so we could rise early and get back to work
    I slept alone, in the bed farthest from the doorThis made me uncomfortableThe two big men
    did not fit easily on the other bed; Ian tended to sprawl when he was deeply asleep, and Jared
    was not above throwing punches when that happenedBoth of them would be more
    comfortable if I sharedI slept in a small ball now; maybe it was the too-open spaces I moved in
    all day that had me constricting in on myself at night, or maybe I was just so used to curling up
    to sleep in the tiny space behind the passenger seat on the van's floor that I'd forgotten how to
    sleep straight
    But I knew why no one asked me to shareThe first night the men had unhappily realized the
    necessity of a hotel shower for me, I'd heard Ian and Jared talking about me over the whir of the
    bathroom fannot fair to ask her to choose,” Ian was sayingHe kept his voice low, but the fan was not
    loud enough to drown it outThe hotel room was very small
    “Why not? It's fairer totell her where she's going to sleep? Don't you think it's more polite –”
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    The jeep faced into the darknessIt looked just the same as I remembered it, this vehicle I had
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    Jared was in his seat alreadyHe leaned rolex ladies watch over and tied the blindfold over my eyes againI held
    still to make it easier
    The noise of the engine scared meIt seemed too dangerousThere were so many people who
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    2:15 am
    @@@@@I've indulged you too longYou really can't
    @@@@@I've indulged you too longYou really can't believe I'm serious, can you? Supposed you understood that if you didn't pick it up, I would court-martial you, and you might have five years in a prison stockade
    "I wonder if you have the power for that?"
    "I doIt would cause me a lot of difficulty, your court-martial would be reviewed, and after the war there might be a bit of a stink, it might even hurt me personally, but I would be upheldI would have to be upheldEven if you won eventually, you would be in prison for a year or two at least while it was all being decided
    "Don't you think that's a bit steep?"
    "It's tremendously steep, it has to beThere was the old myth of divine interventionYou blasphemed, and a lightning bolt struck youThat was a little steep tooIf punishment is at all proportionate to the offense, then power becomes wateredThe only way you generate the proper attitude of awe and obedience is through immense and disproportionate powerWith this in mind, how do you think you would react?"
    Hearn was kneading his thighs againIt's an unfair propositionYou're settling a difference between us by
    "You remember when I gave that lecture about the man with the gun?"
    "Yes
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    Cummings tossed his cigarette at Hearn's feet"All right, Robert, suppose you pick it up," he said quietly
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    to
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    @@@@@"What Ross did was unpardonable," she said,
    @@@@@"What Ross did was unpardonable," she said, "I don't ask
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    dearIt was Rhett he was attacking through you; he knows, you see,
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    things
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    everything
    "Margaret told me privately this afternoon that when Ross went to
    work
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    seeHe always drank, men always do, but not the way he's been
    drinking since Rhett came back to Charleston a year agoRoss was
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    since he came back from the War, but something always went wrong,
    and
    he never did get a decent rice cropEverything was about to be sold
    up for taxes
    So when Rhett offered to buy the plantation from him, Ross had to let
    it
    goIt would have been Rhett's anyhow, except that he and his
    father-but that's another story"Ross got a position as teller at a
    bank, but I'm afraid he thought that handling money was vulgar
    Gentlemen always signed bills in the old days, or simply gave their
    word, and their factors took care of everythingAt any rate, Ross
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    he
    made a big mistake, and he lost hisjobWorse, the bank said they
    were
    going to law to get the money from him that he'd paid out in errorIt was like a dagger in Ross' heart
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    “Well, you’re not so authentically bright, MrBig Shot!” spat out the immobilized patient
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    257
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
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    “You have to consider the intended audienceI wish they'd run old human shows again He flipped through the channels and
    frowned“Used to be a few of them on
    “They were too disturbingThey had to be replaced with things that weren't so… violent
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