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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:34 am
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    Oh, what a bag I got on
    I feel rocky today, Brown saysWhat the hell we do it for?
    Got to get out of the rut, I guessOh, man!



    6

    THIS SAME night, on the other side of the mountain range, Cummings was making a tour of his positionsThe attack had been progressing favorably for a day and a half, and his line companies had advanced from a quarter to a half mileThe division was moving again, more successfully than he had expected, and the long wet month of inactivity and stagnation seemed to have endedF Company had made contact with the Toyaku Line, and according to the last report Cummings had received that afternoon, a reinforced platoon from E Company had captured a Japanese bivouac on F Company's flankFor the next few days the attack would teeter from enemy counterattacks, but if they held, and he was going to see that they held, the Toyaku Line might be breached within two weeks
    Secretly, he was a little surprised at the advanceHe had prepared the attack for over a month, hoarded his supplies, revised his battle plans from day to day through all the eventless weeks that had followed the aborted Japanese attack across the riverHe had done everything a commander could do, and yet he had been gloomyThe memory of the bivouacs at the front with their covered foxholes and duckwalks through the mud had depressed him more than once; it spoke with such finality of the men sitting down to rest permanently, implacably
    He knew now he was wrongThe lessons learned from every campaign were different, and he had absorbed an obscure but basic axiomIf the men settled down long enough they became restless, ennuied to the point of courage again by the drab repetition of their daysIt's a mistake to relieve a company which has not been advancing, he told himselfJust let them sit in the mud long enough, and they'll attack through their own volitionIt was fortuitous that his battle orders had been launched at a time when the men were eager to move ahead again, but deep in his mind he knew he had been luckyHe had misjudged their morale completely
    If I had a few company commanders who were perceptive, the whole process would be simpler, more responsive, and yet it's too much to ask sensitivity of a CO besides all the other things he has to haveNo, it's my fault, I should have seen it in spite of themPerhaps for this reason the early success of the attack gave him little elationHe was pleased, naturally enough, because his greatest burden had been removedThe pressure from Corps had relaxed, and the fear that for a time had colored everything -- that he would be relieved of his command in the middle of the campaign -- had retreated now, and would expire if the advance continued favorablyStill he had substituted one dissatisfaction for anoth
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    "Ah hope so, Lootenant"Ah'm no fug-off an' any of the men'll tell you Ah'd rather work than jus' lay around an' get all hot an' bothered, but lately with this misery it makes me feel like Ah ain't worth a good goddam, Ah jus' cain't seem to do what Ah use' to do He shook one of his long broad fingers at Hearn, who watched the sunlight glint on the blond-red hairs at his wrist"Maybe this las' week Ah been chanel fake havin' to goof-off a little, an' Croft's been on my ass the whole timeIt's a helluva note when a buddy you been with in the same platoon for two years figgers you're goofin'-off on him"Take it easy, Wilson, and I'll tell that goddam engineer to take it easy with this boat over the bumps Their pilot was a man from an engineer company"I'll tell him to set you down easy Red's voice was sarcastic with a touch of gucci fashion disgust
    Hearn realized that Valsen hadn't said a word directly to him since he had begun talking to themAnd why was Wilson telling him all this? As an alibi? But Hearn didn't think soAll the time Wilson had been talking his voice had been a little abstracted as though explaining something to himselfWilson was unconscious of him, and Valsen seemed to resent him
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    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    2:34 am
    @@@@@Then the stars, fat and close in the velvet
    @@@@@Then the stars, fat and close in the velvet sky,
    or a moon round and white, as white as the sleeping house it lit on the
    dark, gently rising hillScarlett's eyes widenedThat
    was it! Why hadn't she realized it before? Of courseSummer-when
    she loved Tara most-summer was when Rhett couldn't go to Dunmore
    Landing because of the feverThey'd spend October
    to
    June in Charleston, with the Season to break the monotony of all those
    stuffy boring tea parties, and the promise of summer at Tara to break
    the monotony of the SeasonShe could bear it, she knew she could
    As
    long as there was the long summer at TaraOh, if only the Bishop
    would hurry! Robillard escorted Scarlett to the dedication ceremonies
    at Hodgson HallHe was an imposing figure in his old-fashioned dress
    suit, with its satin knee breeches and velvet tailcoat, the tiny red
    rosette of the Legion of Honor in his buttonhole and a broad diagonal
    red sash across his chestScarlett had never seen anyone look quite
    so
    distinguished and aristocratic as her grandfatherHe could be proud
    of her, too, she thoughtHer pearls and diamonds were of the first
    water, and her gown was magnificent, a shining column of gold
    brocaded
    silk trimmed with gold lace and a gold brocaded train that was a full
    four feet long
    She'd never had a chance to wear it, because she'd had to dress so
    dowdy in CharlestonHow lucky, after all, that she'd had all those
    clothes made before she went to CharlestonWhy, there were a half
    dozen dresses that had hardly been on her backEven without the
    trim
    that Rhett had taunted her into removing, they were much prettier
    than
    anything she'd seen on anybody in SavannahScarlett was preening
    as
    Jerome handed her up into the hired carriage to sit across from her
    grandfatherThe ride to the south end of town was silentPierre
    Robillard's white-crowned head nodded, half-sleepingIt jerked
    upright when Scarlett exclaimed, "Oh, look!" There were crowds of
    people on the street outside the iron-fenced classical building, there
    to watch the -5 arrival of Savannah's elite societyJust like the
    Saint CeciliaScarlett held her head arrogantly high as a liveried
    attendant helped her from the carriage to the sidewalkShe could
    hear
    murmurs of admiration from the crowdsWhile her grandfather slowly
    stepped down to join her, she bobbed her head to set her earbobs
    flashing in the lamplight and cast her train from over her arm to
    spread out behind her for her entrance up the tall, red-carpeted steps
    to the Hall's door"Ooooh," she heard from the crowd and, "aaah,"
    "beautiful,"
    "who is she?" As she extended her white-gloved hand to
    rest on her grandfather's velvet sleeve a familiar voice called out
    clearly, "Katie Scarlett, darling, you're as dazzling as the Queen of
    Sheba!" She looked quickly, in a panic, to her left, then, even more
    quickly, turned away from Jamie and his brood as if she didn't know
    them, and proceeded at Pierre Robillard's slow, stately pace to mount
    the sta
    2:26 am
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    and started for the door"Wait!" said ScarlettWho? Rhett and who?" Sally's
    monkey face crumpled in sympathy"Nobody we know," she said
    gentlyHe was only nineteen when he left Charleston, and at
    that age boys go to a bordello or to a willing poor white girlSince
    he returned he's Cartier Tortue demonstrated great delicacy in refusing all offers
    without hurting any feelings"Charleston isn't a sink of iniquity,
    dearPeople don't feel any social pressure to be constantly
    rutting
    I'm sure that Rhett is faithful to you"I'll see myself out As soon
    as Sally was gone Scarlett ran upstairs to her bedroom and locked
    herself inShe threw herself across chanel logo earrings the bed and wept
    uncontrollably
    Grotesque visions assaulted her mind of Rhett with one woman still another, and another and another of the ladies she saw at
    parties every dayWhat a fool she'd been to believe that he would be
    jealous of herWhen she could no longer bear her thoughts, she rang
    for Pansy, then washed and powdered her faceShe gucci bookbag couldn't sit and
    smile and talk with Miss Eleanor when she woke upShe had to get
    away, at least for a while"We're going out," she told Pansy * * Scarlett walked for miles-quickly and
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    Charleston's tall, beautiful old houses, she didn't see their crumbling
    pastel stucco walls as proud chanel knockoff evidence of survival, she saw only that
    they cared not how they looked to passers-by and turned their
    shoulders
    to the street to face inward toward their private walled gardensThey keep their secrets, she thoughtExcept from each
    otherEveryone pretends about everythingwas nearly dark when
    Scarlett got back, and the house looked silent and gucci women watch forbiddin
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    outrun beforeI push my legs harder
    There's a low grunt to his breathing as he speeds up, too
    Something big flies into my back, and I go downI taste dirt in my mouth, and I'm pinned by
    something so heavy I can hardly breathe
    He shifts his rolex oyster perpetual daytona weight and rolls me overHe straddles my chest, trapping my arms under his legs
    He is squishing my foodI growl and try to squirm out from under him
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    He turns the flashlight on his face
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    2:26 am
    @@@@@Many things may be done in the name of
    @@@@@Many things may be done in the name of Russian interests and without the
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    commander of NATO! And never—never—using the services of Carlos the Jackal! These
    embarrassments are no less than dangerous and frightening catastrophes
    “Have you got any suggestions?” asked Conklin
    “A foolish question,” answered the colonel gruffly“Arrest, then the Lubyanka
    “There’s a problem with that solution,” said Alex“The Central Intelligence Agency knows
    Ogilvie’s in Moscow
    “So where is the problem? We rid us both of an unhealthy person and his crimes and go about
    our business
    “It may seem strange to you, but the problem isn’t only with the unhealthy person and his
    crimes, even where the Soviet Union is concernedIt’s with the cover-up—where Washington’s
    concerned
    The Komitet officer looked at Krupkin and spoke in Russian“What is this one talking about?”
    “It’s difficult for us to understand,” answered Dimitri in his native language, “still, for them it is
    a problemLet me try to explain
    “What’s he saying?” asked Bourne, annoyed
    “I think he’s about to give a civics lesson, U
    “Such lessons more often than not fall on deaf ears in Washington,” interrupted Krupkin in
    English, then immediately resuming Russian, he addressed his KGB superior“You see, comrade,
    no one in America would blame us for taking advantage of this Ogilvie’s criminal activitiesThey
    have a proverb they repeat so frequently that it covers oceans of guilt: ‘One does not look a gift
    horse in the mouth ”
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    “What has a horse’s mouth got to do with gifts? From its tail comes manure for the farms; from
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    “It loses something in the translationNevertheless, this attorney, Ogilvie, obviously had a
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    sums of money, practices that entailed millions upon millions of dollarsLaws were circumvented,
    men killed, lies accepted as the truth; in essence, there was considerable corruption, and, as we
    know, the Americans are obsessed with corruptionThey even label every progressive
    accommodation as potentially ‘corrupt,’ and there’s nothing older, more knowledgeable peoples
    can do about itThey hang out their soiled linen for all the world to see like a badge of honor
    “Because it is,” broke in Alex, speaking Englis
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    2:34 am
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    @@@@@God
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    "I don't like it either," I said, but that was far
    from the truthThe truth was I hated it"I don't
    like the idea that something may have actually
    reached out and killed Elizabeth - maybe scared
    her to death - just to shut her up
    "And you think you can find out what's going on
    from those picturesHow much I won't know until I try
    "And then?"
    "It dependsAlmost certainly a trip to the south
    end of the KeyThere's unfinished business
    there
    Jack put down his tea-glass"What unfinished
    business?"
    813
    I shook my headHer pictures may
    tell me
    "Just as long as you don't get in over your head
    and discover you can't get back to shore," Wireman
    said"That's what happened to those two little
    girls
    "I know it," I said
    Jack pointed his finger at me"Take care of
    yourself
    I nodded and pointed back
    15 - Intruder
    i
    Twenty minutes later I sat in Little Pink with my
    sketch-pad on my lap and the red picnic basket
    beside meDirectly ahead, filling the westernfacing
    window with light, was the GulfFar below
    me was the murmur of the shellsI had set my
    easel aside and covered my paint-splattered worktable
    with a piece of towelingI laid the remains
    of her freshly sharpened colored pencils on top of
    itThere wasn't much left of those pencils, which
    814
    were fat and somehow antique, but I thought
    there'd be enough
    "Bullshit I am," I sai
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    I sat for a moment with the phone at my ear after
    she hung up, listening to the nothing"Do the day
    and let the day do you," I saidThen the dial
    576
    tone kicked in, and I decided I had one more call
    to make, after all
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    sounded a lot more lively and a lot less cautious
    I thought that was a nice change
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    "I was sort of assuming you meant to call it
    'Roses Grow from Shells,'" she said
    "It is," I said, looking out to the Florida room
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    blue-white plate; I had to squint against the
    glare"But it's not quite right
    "You have one you like better, I take it?"
    "Yes, I think soI want to call it 'The View from
    Duma' What do you think?"
    Her response was immediate
    ix
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    I had sweat through my LOSE IT IN gucci hobo handbag THE VIRGIN
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    air conditioning, and I was more exhausted than a
    brisk walk to El Palacio and back left me these
    daysMy ear felt hot and throbby from the
    telephoneI felt uneasy about Ilse - the way
    parents are always uneasy about the problems of
    their children, I suppose, once they're too old to
    be called home when it starts to get dark and the
    baths are being drawn - but I also felt satisfied
    with chanel earrings the work I'd put in, the way I used to feel
    after a good day on a hard construction job
    I didn't feel particularly hungry, but I made
    myself slop a few tablespoons of tuna salad onto a
    lettuce leaf and washed it down with a glass of
    milkWhole milk - bad for the heart, good for the
    bonesI guess that one's a wash, Pam would have
    saidI turned on the kitchen TV and learned that
    Candy Brown's wife was suing the City of Sarasota
    over her husband's Jimmy choo handbag death, claiming negligence
    Good luck on that one, sweetheart, I thoughtThe
    local meteorologist said the hurricane season
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    sometimes known as The Last Resort of the Single
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
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    "So it is the fear of the government or other people you owe money I to that motivates you?"
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    2:26 am
    @@@@@ None of us had moved an inch “Think they're
    @@@@@
    None of us had moved an inch
    “Think they're in shock, Nate,” another man said
    “We scared them half to death,” a woman said“What do you expect?”
    They waited, shuffling from foot to foot, while we stood frozen
    Jared was the first to recover“Whoare you?” he whispered
    The leader laughed again“I'm Nate–nice to meet you, though you might not feel the same way
    just yetThis here's Rob, Evan, Blake, Tom, Kim, and Rachel along with me He gestured
    around the group as he spoke, and the humans nodded at their namesI noticed one man, a little
    to the back, whom Nate did not introduceHe had bright, crinkly ginger hair that stood
    out–especially because he was the tallest in the groupHe alone seemed to be unarmedHe was
    also staring intently at me, so I looked away“There's twenty-two of us altogether, though,”
    Nate continued
    Nate held out his hand
    Jared took a deep breath and then a step forwardWhen he moved, the rest of our little group
    silently exhaled all at once He shook Nate's hand, then started to smile“This is Melanie, Aaron, Brandt, Ian,
    and WandaThere are thirty-seven of us altogether
    When Jared spoke my name, Ian shifted his weight, trying to obscure me completely from the
    other humans' viewIt was only then that I realized I was still in just as much danger as the
    others would have been in if thesehad been SeekersJust like in the beginningI tried to hold
    perfectly sti
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    2:34 am
    @@@@@"Come on, men, get some fire back," he
    @@@@@"Come on, men, get some fire back," he bawledHis mind was working quicklyThere were only a few men in the grove, probably not even a squad, or they would have waited for the whole platoon to show itselfThis way, they wanted to frighten them off
    Well, that was all rightHe wasn't going to hang around hereCroft stared for a moment at the LieutenantHearn was lying on his back, the blood spurting softly from his wound, covering his face and body slowly and inevitablyCroft felt a sense of relief againNo longer was there that confusion, that momentary internal pause before he gave an order
    The skirmish continued for a few minutes, and the rifles and machine gun were silent in the groveCroft ducked down again behind the shelfA little frantically, the men were crawling away from the ledge
    "Hold it," he called out"Let's get out of here the right wayGallagher! Roth! You stay here with me, keep up some fire, The rest of you get around that knollMartinez, you take them" -- he pointed to the hillock behind them -- "when you get there, open up on the grove, and we'll pull out and join you He stood up for a moment, squeezed off a few rounds from a new clip, and then ducked again as the Jap machine gun answered"All right, now get going!"
    They crawled away, and several minutes later Croft heard them firing behind him"Come on," he whispered to Gallagher and RothThey started off, sliding on their bellies for the first fifty feet and then running from a crouched positionRoth caught a glimpse of Hearn as he crawled by, and for an instant his legs went weak and he gasped rather emptily It passed through him in a bout of faintness, and then he began crawling and then running"Terrible," he muttered
    Croft joined the others behind the h
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    2:34 am
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    His wide back bent over the cradle, his deep voice making silly
    baby-talk sounds-never in all the world was there a man so besotted
    with a babyHe was going to be so happy when she told himShe
    could
    see his dark eyes flashing with the joy of it, his white smile gleaming
    in hispirate's faceScarlett smiled, too, thinking of itI'm happy,
    too, she thoughtThis is the way it's supposed to be when you have a
    baby, Melly always said so"Oh, my God," she whispered aloud
    Melly
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    said, after I had the miscarriageThat's why I didn't know I was
    pregnant, I didn't even notice I missed my time of month, because it's
    been so undependable for so long
    Suppose having this baby kills me? Oh, God, please, please, God,
    don't
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    She crossed herself again and again in confused entreaty, propitiation,
    superstitionThen she shook her head angrilyWhat was she doing?
    Just being sillyShe was strong and healthyNot like Melly at
    all
    Why, Mammy always said it was downright shameful the way she
    dropped a
    baby with hardly more fuss than an alley cat
    She was going to do just fine, and her baby would be fine, tooAnd
    her life would be fine, with Rhett loving her, loving their baby
    They'd be the happiest, lovingest family in the whole world
    Gracious, she hadn't even thought of Miss EleanorTalk about
    baby-loving! Miss Eleanor was going to pop her buttons with pride
    I can see her now, at the Market, telling everybody, even the bent-up
    old man who sweeps out the trashThis baby's going to be the talk of
    Charleston before it even draws its first breathThat's where I should be goin
    2:26 am
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    complained"I can perfectly well walk Rebekah clamped a hand on
    her shoulder and continued to push the wheelchair slowly along the
    crushed oyster-shell road"I feel like a fool," grumbled Scarlett,
    but she slumped back in the chairHer head was throbbing with sharp
    dagger-like painsThe rainstorm had brought back weather suitable
    for
    FebruaryThe air was crisp, with a bite in the wind that was still
    blowingAt least Miss Eleanor brought my fur cape, she thoughtI
    must have had a mighty close call if I'm allowed to wear the furs she
    thought were so showy"Where is Rhett? Why isn't he taking me
    home?"
    "I wouldn't let him go out again," said Mrs"I sent
    for our doctor and told Manigo to put Rhett straight to bedHe was
    blue with cold Anne spoke quietly, bending near Scarlett's ear
    "Miss Eleanor was alarmed when the storm came up so suddenlyWe
    rushed from the Home to the mooring basin and when they said the
    boat
    hadn't come back she got frantic
    I doubt that she sat down once all afternoon, she was just pacing back
    and forth on the piazza looking out into the rain Under a nice roof,
    thought Scarlett impatientlyIt's all well and good, for Anne to
    sound so concerned for Miss Eleanor, but she wasn t the one freezing
    to
    death! "My son told me you worked a miracle tending his wife," Miss
    Eleanor said to Rebekah"I don't know how we'll ever thank you
    "Wasn't me, Missus, it was the good LordI talked to Jesus for her,
    poor little shivering thingI said this ain't Lazarus, Lord While
    Rebekah repeated her story to MrsButler, Anne answered Scarlett's
    question about Rhe
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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    who stayed at Salmon PointOnly you call it
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    "How many artists stayed there?"
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    thatFor most of Elizabeth's guests, their time
    615
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    and never so much as wet a brush She marched to
    the sofa, lifted her glass, and had a sip
    "Elizabeth has a Dalí sketch that was done at Big
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    Mary's eyes gleamedDalí
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    although before he left, the son of a bitch goosed
    meDo you know what Elizabeth told me after he
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    to frank
    15
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    Mansfield Park
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    "And what is that way?" Mike asked
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