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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    11:11 am
    @@@@@"You know I've fooled around a lot, dances
    @@@@@"You know I've fooled around a lot, dances and kidding around with the girls, you knowBack home I'm the life of the party, you ought to see meOnly I ain't really like that, 'cause when I'd be goin' out with Rosie, for instance, we'd have a lot of serious talksMy aching back, the things we'd talk aboutThat's what I really am," Minetta decided"I go a lot for stuff like philosophy It was the first time he had ever thought of himself in such a way and the classification pleased him"Most of these guys when they get back are gonna do just what they were doin' before, just screwing aroundBut we're different, you know that?"
    Goldstein's love of discussion roused him from his melancholy"I'll tell you something I've often debated with myself, is it worth it?" The sad lines that extended from his nose to the corners of his mouth became deeper, more reflective, as he spoke"You know maybe we'd be happier if we didn't think so much, maybe it's better to live and let live
    "That's something I've wondered about too," Minetta saidHis thoughts, ambiguous, indefinite, troubled himHe felt himself on the edge of something profound"Sometimes I get to thinking, you know, what's it all about? There was a guy who died in the hospital in the middle of the nightSometimes I start thinking about him
    "Oh, that's terrible," Goldstein said"He died just like that with nobody near him He made a clucking sound of sympathy, and surprisingly, abruptly, a few tears mounted in his eyes
    Minetta looked at him in amazement"Jesus, what's the matter?"
    "I don't know, it's just so sadHe probably had a wife, parents"It's a funny thing about you JewsYou know you feel sorrier for yourself and sorrier for everybody else than most people do
    Roth, who had been lying beside them, quite silent until now, roused himsel
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    11:11 am
    @@@@@He tossed the quilt onto her lap"I'll have
    @@@@@He tossed the quilt onto her
    lap"I'll have a fire started in a minute
    Scarlett dropped her torn pantalets on top of the soaked sweater and
    dried herself on the quiltIt was soft, and it felt goodShe
    wrapped it shawl-fashion then sat down again on the hard kitchen
    chair
    The quilt made an envelope for her feet on the floorShe was dry for
    the first time in hours, but she began to shiverRhett brought dry
    wood in from a box on the porch outside the kitchenIn a few
    minutes
    there was a small fire in the big fireplaceAlmost at once it bit
    into the teepee of logs and a tall orange burst of flame leapt into
    crackling lifeIt lit his brooding faceScarlett hobbled across the
    room to warm herself at the fire"Why don't you get out of your wet
    things, too, Rhett? I'll let you have the quilt to dry off on; it
    feels wonderful She dropped her eyes as if she were embarrassed by
    her boldnessHer thick lashes fluttered on her cheeksRhett did not
    respond"I'll just get soaked again when I go back out," he said
    "We're only a couple of miles from Fort Moultrie
    Rhett walked into the small pantry adjoining the kitchen"Bother Fort
    Moultrie!" Scarlett wished he'd stop rooting around in the pantry like
    thatHow could she talk to him when he was in another room? Rhett
    emerged with a bottle of whiskey in one hand"The shelves are pretty
    bare," he said with a brief smile, "but the necessities are there He
    opened a cupboard and took down two cups"Clean enough," he said
    "I'll pour us a dr
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    11:19 am
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    “Whatever that means, accountant, you’re about as clear as your paralyzed ministry,” interrupted
    an obese man in a black suit too small for his girth“You also cast doubt on your ability to
    recognize a decent return! Naturally, I’m with Military Supply, and you consistently shortchange
    us
    “As you do constantly with Scientific Research!” exclaimed a short, tweedy professorial
    member of the audience, the irregularity of his clipped beard due, no doubt, to poor vision, despite
    the thick spectacles bridging his nose“Returns, indeed! What about allocations?”
    “More than sufficient for your grade-school scientists! The money is better spent stealing from
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    “Stop it!” cried the priest-assassin, raising his arms like a messiah“We are not here to discuss
    interdepartmental conflicts, for they will all be resolved with the emergence of our new elite
    Remember! I am the monseigneur from Paris, and together we will bring about a new, cleansed
    order for our great revolution! Complacency is over
    “It is a thrilling concept, sir,” said a second woman, a female in her early thirties, her skirt
    expensively pleated, her compact features obviously recognized by the others as a popular
    newscaster on television“However, may we return to the issue of accuracy?”
    “It is settled, “said the dark-eyed Carlos, staring in louis vuitton duffle bag turn at each person“How else would I know
    all about you?”
    “I do not doubt you, sir,” continued the newscaster“But as a journalist I must always seek a
    second source of verification unless the ministry determines otherwiseSince you are not with the
    Ministry of Information, sir, and knowing that whatever you say will remain confidential, can you
    give us a secondary source?”
    “Am I to be hounded by manipulated journalists when I speak the truth?” The assassin caught
    his breath in anger“Everything I’ve told you is the truth and you know it
    “So were the crimes of Stalin, sir, and they were’ buried along with twenty million corpses for
    thirty years
    “You want tiffany toggle heart proof, journalist? I’ll give you proofI have the eyes and the ears of the leaders of
    the KGB—namely, the great General Grigorie Rodchenko himselfHe is my eyes and my ears, and
    if you care to know a harsher truth, he is beholden to me! For I am his monseigneur from Paris as
    well
    There was a rustling among the captive audience, a collective hesitancy, a wave of quiet throat
    clearingThe television newscaster spoke again, now softly, her wide brown eyes riveted on the
    man in priest’s clothes
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    384
    “You may be whatever you say you are, sir,” she began, “but you do not listen to Radio
    Moscow’s all-night stationIt was logo louis vuitton reported over an hour ago that General Rodchenko was shot to
    death this morning by foreign criminalsIt was also reported that all high officers of the Komitet
    have been called into an emergency session to evaluate the circumstances of the general’s murder
    The speculation is that there had to be extraordinary reasons for a man of General Rodchenko’s
    experience to be lured into a trap by these foreign criminals
    “They will tear apart his files,” added the cautious bureaucrat, stiffly getting to his feet“They
    will put everything under a KGB microscope, searching for those “extraordinary reasons ” The
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    11:19 am
    @@@@@It didn't sink so much as it seemed to
    @@@@@It didn't
    sink so much as it seemed to disappear and leave a
    void between my heart and the rest of my gutsMy
    knees tried to buckleThe steel in my hip went
    hotThe back of my neck went coldAnd warm,
    prickling fire ran up the arm that wasn't there"Again and again and again
    "You're Edgar," she saidI guessed no one had called her honey
    in a long time"My mind is like a tablecloth with
    a great big hole burned into it She turned to
    Wireman"Muy divertido, sí?"
    "You need to rest," he said"In fact, you need to
    dormir como un troncoAnd I think
    when I wake up, I'll still be here She lifted his hands to her face and
    kissed them
    "I love you, too, Miss Eastlake," he saidIs it Edgar?"
    "What do you think, Elizabeth?"
    "Yes, of course it isYou're to have a show? Is
    that how we left things before my last She
    drooped her eyelids, as if to mime sleep
    "Yes, at the Scoto GalleryYou really need to
    rest
    "Is it soon? Your show?"
    "In less than a week
    674
    "Your paintingsare they
    on the mainland? At the gallery?"
    Wireman and I exchanged a lookEverything
    else can waituntil after you have your s
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    11:11 am
    @@@@@That's cruel, and that's the trap I want you
    @@@@@That's cruel, and that's the trap I want you to avoid, if possibleI've seen how money runs people's livesDon't let that happen to youPlease don't let money run your life
    A softball rolled under our tableRich dad picked it up and threw it back
    "So what does ignorance have to do with greed and fear?" I asked
    "Because it is ignorance about money that causes so much greed and so much fear," said rich dad"Let me give you some examplesA doctor, wanting more money to better provide for his family, raises his feesBy raising his fees, it makes health care more expensive for everyoneNow, it hurts the poor people the most, so poor people have worse health than those with money
    "Because the doctors raise their rates, the attorneys raise their ratesBecause the attorneys' rates have gone up, schoolteachers want a raise, which raises our taxes, and on and on and onSoon, there will be such a horrifying gap between the rich and the poor that chaos will break out and another great civilization will collapseGreat civilizations collapsed when the gap between the haves and havenots was too greatAmerica is on the same course, proving once again that history repeats itself, because we do not learn from historyWe only memorize historical dates and names, not the lesson
    "Aren't prices supposed to go up?" I asked
    "Not in an educated society with a well-run governmentPrices should actually come downOf course, that is often only true in theoryPrices go up because of greed and fear caused by ignoranceIf schools taught people about money, there would be more money and lower prices, but schools focus only on teaching people to work for money, not how to harness money's power
    "But don't we have business schools?" Mike as
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    11:11 am
    @@@@@"We never can tell when some other man jack
    @@@@@"We never can tell when some other man jack is going to get hit, and we'll need bearers for him
    This was the wrong thing to sayThey all looked glum, and their mouths tightened"Goddammit," Brown blurted out, "we been pretty lucky up to now this campaignOutside of Hennessey and Togliowhy in the hell did it have to be Wilson?"
    Martinez rubbed his fingertips, staring at the groundHe slapped at an insect on his neck
    "We might be able to get him back okay," Brown said"You're gonna send a noncom with the litter-bearers, aren't you, Lootenant?"
    Hearn didn't know the procedure, but there was no point in admitting it"I think we can spare one of you noncoms
    Brown wanted to be pickedHe had concealed it from the others, but nevertheless he had gone to pieces behind the ledge"I guess it's Martinez's turn to go back," he said, however, not without guile, for he knew Croft would want Martinez with himYet on another level Brown was trying to be fair
    "I need Japbait," Croft said shortly"I guess it'll be you, Brown
    "Any way you want it Brown rubbed his hand over his cropped brown hair, fingered a jungle ulcer on his chinHe felt vaguely guilty"Who'll I take?"
    Croft reflected"How 'bout Ridges and Goldstein, Lootenant?"
    "You know the men better than I
    "Well, they ain't much fuggin good, but they're strong enough, an' if you push 'em, Brown, they ain't gonna goof-off on yaThey were awright when we carried Wilson back from where he got hit Croft looked at themHe remembered that Stanley and Red and Gallagher had almost got into a fight on the boa
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    11:11 am
    @@@@@Today would be a good day, she was sure of
    @@@@@Today would be a good day, she was sure of it-in
    spite of her grandfather's birthday party"Walk up, Pansy," she said
    automatically, "don't drag along like a turtle," and she set off at a
    brisk pace along the packed sand-and-shell sidewalkThe sound of
    hammering and men's voices shouting at the Cathedral building
    carried
    clearly through the still, sunlit airScarlett wished for a moment
    that the priest would take her on another tour of the siteBut that
    wasn't what she was here forShe turned into the gate of the
    convent
    The same elderly nun answered the doorbell
    Scarlett readied herself for combatBut, "The Mother Superior is
    expecting you," said the nun"If you'll follow me Scarlett was almost
    dazed when she left the convent ten minutes laterIt had been so
    easy! The Mother Superior agreed at once to talk to the Bishop
    She'd
    send word, she said, very soonNo, she couldn't say just when that
    would be, but certainly within a short timeShe herself would be
    returning to Charleston the following week
    Scarlett was euphoricHer smile and her eyes were so bright that the
    grocer in the small shop on Abercorn Street nearly forgot to charge
    her
    for the bow-bedecked box of chocolate candies she selected for her
    grandfather's birthday presentHer high spirits carried her through
    the final preparations for the birthday dinner that engulfed her when
    she got back to the Robillard houseThey began to dim slightly when
    she learned that her grandfather would actually come to table for the
    six courses of his particularly favorite foodsHer spirits plummeted
    when the aunts informed her that she wasn't allowed to eat many of
    the
    delicacies that would be served"Flesh is forbidden during Lent,"
    said Pauline sternly"Be certain that no gravy touches the rice or
    vegetables you eat
    "But be careful, ScarlettDon't let Pere notice," added Eulalie in a
    whisper"He doesn't approve of fasting Her eyes were rheumy with
    sor
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    11:20 am
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    the cost, it must be doneI have to find him, isolate him, above all, cut him off from everyone else
    trying to get out
    “You’re a goddamned maniac,” broke in Benjamin, the veins pronounced in his forehead“I
    could kill ‘a few’—more than a few! You’re crazy!”
    “At this moment I’m the most rational man you’ve ever met,” interrupted Jason harshly, rapidly,
    as the panicked residents of Novgorod kept rushing by“There’s not a sane general in the Soviet
    army—the same army that retook Stalingrad—who chanel ceramic watch wouldn’t agree with meIt’s called the
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    means you’re paying a lot less for what you’re getting now than you’d pay later
    “You’re asking too much! These people are my comrades, my friends; they’re RussiansWould
    you fire into a crowd of Americans? One recoil of my hands—an inch, two inches with a ‘fortyseven’—
    and I could maim or kill half a dozen people! The risk’s too great!”
    “You don’t have a choiceIf the Jackal gets by me—and I’ll know it if he does—I’ll throw in a
    grenade and kill twenty
    “You son of a bitch!”
    “Believe it, omega seamaster watch BenWhere Carlos is concerned I’m a son of a bitchI can’t afford him any longer,
    the world can’t afford himMove!”
    The trainer named Benjamin spat in Bourne’s face, then turned and began fighting his way to the
    guardhouse and the unseen corpse of the colonel beyondAlmost unconsciously Jason wiped his
    face with the back of his hand, his concentration solely on the fenced parking area, his eyes darting
    from one pocket of shadows to another, trying to center in on the origins of the automatic gunfire,
    yet knowing it was pointless; the Jackal had changed position by thenHe counted the other
    vehicles in addition to the fuel louis vuitton prices truck; there were nine parked by the fence—two station wagons,
    four sedans and three suburban vans, all American-made or simulated as suchCarlos was
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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    concealed beyond one of them or possibly the fuel truck, the last unlikely as it was the farthest
    away from the open gate in the fence that permitted access to the guardhouse and thus to the tunnel
    Jason crouched and crawled forward; he reached the waist-high fence, the pandemonium behind
    him continuous, deafeningEvery muscle and joint in his legs and arms pounded with pain; cramps
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    You’re too close, David! Keep goingJason Bourne knows what to doTrust him!
    Aaughh! He spun his body over the fence; the handle of his sheathed bayonet embedded itself in
    his kidneyThere is no pain! You’re too close, David—JasonListen to Jason!
    The searchlights—someone had pressed something and they went crazy, spinning around in
    circles, abrupt, blinding, out of control! Where would Carlos go? Where could he hide? The beams
    were erratically piercing everywhere! Then, from an opening that he could not see from across the
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    11:19 am
    @@@@@She looked haggard, dreadfully tired in
    @@@@@She looked haggard,
    dreadfully tired in spite of her smile
    I raised my eyes to Wireman's, and he gave the
    tiniest of shrugsShe insisted, it saidI
    switched my gaze to Jack and got much the same
    Rosenblatt, meanwhile, was rummaging in his
    pocketsAt last he came up with a book of matches
    so battered it looked as if it might have entered
    the United States without a passport at Ellis
    IslandHe opened it and tore one out
    "I thought smoking was against the rules in all
    these public buildings now," Elizabeth said
    Rosenblatt struggledColor rose up his neckI
    almost expected his head to explodeFinally he
    exclaimed: "Fuck the rules, Miss Eastlake!"
    "BRAVISSIMO!" Mary shouted, laughing and throwing
    her hands to the ceiling, and at this there was
    another round of applauseA greater one came when
    Rosenblatt finally got the ancient match to ignite
    713
    and held it out to Elizabeth, who placed her
    cigarette-holder between her lips
    "Who is she really, Daddy?" Ilse asked softly
    "Besides the little old lady who lives down the
    lane, I mean?"
    I said, "According to reports, at one time she was
    the Sarasota art scene
    "I don't understand why that gives her the right
    to muck up our lungs with her cigarette smoke,"
    Linnie saidThe vertical line was returning
    between her brows"Oh, chérie, this after all the bars
    we-"
    "This is not there," she said, the vertical line
    deepening, and I thought, Ric, you may be French,
    but you have a lot to learn about this particular
    American woman
    Alice Aucoin murmured to Dario, and from his
    pocket, Dario produced an Altoids tinHe dumped
    the mints into the palm of his hand and gave Alice
    the tinAlice gave it to Elizabeth, who thanked
    her and tapped her cigarette ash into it
    Pam watched, fascinated, then turned to me"What
    does she think of your pictures?"
    714
    "I don't know," I said"She hasn't seen them
    Elizabeth was beckoning to
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    11:11 am
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    When I have achieved $2,000 a month cash flow from my assets, then I will be wealthy
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    My next goal would be to have the excess cash flow from my assets reinvested into the asset column The more money that goes into my asset column, the more my asset column growsThe more my assets grow, the more my cash flow growsAnd as long as I keep my expenses less than the cash flow from these assets, I will grow richer, with more and more income from sources other than my physical mens gucci watches labor
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    CHAPTER dior bag FOUR
    Lesson Three: Mind Your Own Business

    In 1974, Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's, was asked to speak to the MBA class at the University of Texas at AustinA dear friend of mine, Keith Cunningham, was a student in that MBA classAfter a powerful and inspiring talk, the class adjourned and the students asked Ray if he would join them at their favorite hangout to have a few beers Ray graciously gucci hobo horsebit accept
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    11:11 am
    @@@@@Each jolt of the stretcher shocked him like
    @@@@@Each jolt of the stretcher shocked him like a blowHe felt the exhaustion of having fought against a man much bigger, much stronger than himself for many hoursHe teetered often on the edge of unconsciousness, but always he would be jarred back into his pain by a sudden wrench of the litterIt brought him close to weepingFor minutes at a time he would lie stiff on the stretcher waiting for the next jolt, his teeth clenched in preparationAnd when it came, the blow would travel through all the slumbering agonies of his wound, rasping his inflamed nervesThe pain would seem motivated by the litter-bearers and he hated them with the same rage that a man feels for a moment at a piece of furniture when he has barked his leg against it"You sonofabitch, Brown Brown shambled forward, almost reeling, his fingers slowly separating on the litter handleWhen he would feel the stretcher about to rip out of his hand, he would shout, "Drop him," and kneel beside Wilson trying to regain his breath, massaging one hand with the numb fingers of the other"Take it easy, Wilson, we're doin' what we can," he would gasp
    "You sonofabitch, Brown, you been shakin' me on purpose
    Brown wanted to cry or to strike him across the faceThe jungle sores on his feet had come open and were bleeding inside his shoes, smarting unbearably whenever he halted and became conscious of themHe did not want to go on, but he could see the other litter-bearers staring at him"Come on, men," he muttered
    They advanced like this for several hours, toiling under the brow of the midday sunSlowly, inevitably, their will and their resolution were dissolvedThey struggled forward through a glare of heat, bound to each other in an unwilling union of exhaustion and rageEach time one of them stumbled the others hated him, for the load was suddenly increased on their arms, and Wilson's growls of pain bored through their apathy, startled them like a whiplashThey plumbed one level of misery after anotherFor minutes at a time their vision would blank out almost completely in a flood of nauseaThe ground before them would darken, and they would taste their heartbeat in the acrid bile that filled their mouthsThey toiled forward numbly, unquestioningly, suffering more than WilsonAny one of them would have been pleased to have shifted positions with h
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    11:21 am
    @@@@@"She loves the sunshine that much, she takes
    @@@@@"She loves the sunshine that much, she takes off
    her bonnet the minute your back is turnedLittle gypsy is what she
    is, and a joy every hour of the day
    "Of the day and the night," Scarlett amended, holding Cat close
    Stephen gave Scarlett her instructions for the trip back to Galway
    She didn't like themTruth to tell, she didn't much like Stephen
    eitherBut Colum had told her Stephen was in charge of all
    arrangements, so she donned her mourning clothes and kept her
    complaints to herselfThe ship was named The widen Fleece and it
    was
    the latest thing in luxuryScarlett had no quibble with the size or
    the comfort of her suiteBut it did not make a direct crossingIt
    took a week longer, and she was anxious to get back to Ballyhara to
    see
    how the crops were faringIt was not until she was actually on the
    gangplank that she saw the big Notice of Departure with the ship's
    itinerary, or she would have refused to go, no matter what Stephen
    saidThe Golden Fleece loaded passengers in Savannah, Charleston,
    and
    Boston, disembarked them in Liverpool and GalwayScarlett turned in
    panic, ready to run back to the dockShe couldn't go to Charleston,
    she just couldn't!
    Rhett would know she was on the ship-Rhett always knew everything,
    somehow-and he'd walk right into her stateroom and take Cat away
    I'll kill him firstAnger drove away her panic, and Scarlett turned
    again to walk up onto the ship's deckRhett Butler wasn't going to
    make her turn tail and runAll her luggage was already on board, and
    she was sure that Stephen was smuggling guns to Colum in her
    trunks
    They were depending on herAlso, she wanted to get back to
    Ballyhara,
    and she wouldn't let anything or anybody stand in her wayBy the
    time
    Scarlett reached her suite, she had built up a consuming fury against
    RhettMore than a year had passed since he had divorced her, then
    immediately married Anne Hampton
    During that year Scarlett had been so busy, had experienced such
    changes in her life, that she'd been able to block out the pain he had
    caused herNow it tore her heart, and with the pain was a deep fear
    of Rhett's unpredictable po
    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    11:18 am
    @@@@@You've got some big vents in here, and a lot
    @@@@@You've got some big vents in here, and a lot of reflective
    metal Brandt gestured to a file cabinet against the far wall“You let your attention wander for
    half a minute, and it'll be flashing signals to that Seeker
    I sucked in a shocked breath; it was loud in the still room“Guessed its plan in one
    I wanted to bury myself under a boulder to hide from the bulging, relentless eyes of my Seeker,
    yet he imagined I wanted to guide her inBring her here to kill Jamie, Jared, Jeb, Ian… I felt like
    gagging
    “You can go, Brandt,” Doc said in an icy tone“I will keep an eye on Wanda
    Brandt raised one eyebrow“What happened to you guys? To you and Ian and Trudy and the
    rest? It's like you're all hypnotizedIf your eyes weren't right, I'd have to wonder…”
    “Go ahead and wonder all you want, BrandtBut get out while you're doing it
    Brandt shook his head“I've got a job to do
    Doc walked toward Brandt, stopping when he was between Brandt and meHe folded his arms
    across his chest
    “You're not going to touch her
    The throbbing helicopter blades sounded in the distanceWe were all very still, not breathing,
    until they faded
    Brandt shook his head when it was quiet againHe didn't speak; he just went to the desk and
    picked up Doc's chairHe carried it to the wall by the file cabinet, slammed it to the ground, and
    then sat down hard, making the metal legs squeal against the stoneHe leaned forward, his
    hands on his knees, and stared at meA vulture waiting for a dying hare to stop movin
    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    11:15 am
    @@@@@ "Did you let go?" Croft asked Wyman felt
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    "Did you let go?" Croft asked
    Wyman felt a trace of fear as he thought of admitting that to Croft"No, I don't think soI heard Goldstein yell, and then the gun started to come down on meIt was rolling back so I got out of the way Already he was uncertain exactly how it had occurred, and a part of his mind was trying to convince him that he spoke the truthWith it, however, he felt a surprising flush of shame"I guess it was my fault," he blurted out honestly, but his voice was so tired that it lacked sincerity, and Croft thought he was trying to protect GoldsteinA spasm of rage worked through him, and he turned on Goldstein and said, "Listen, Izzy
    "My name isn't Izzy," Goldstein said angrily
    "I don't give a damn what it isThe next time you pull a goddam trick like that, I'm going to put you in for a court-martial
    "But I don't think I let go," Goldstein protested weaklyBy now, he too was no longer sureThe sequence of his sensations when the gun had begun to pull out of his hands was too confused for him to feel righteousHe had thought that Wyman stopped pushing first, but when Wyman declared he was to blame, Goldstein had a moment of panicLike Croft, he believed Wyman was protecting him"I don't know," he said"I don't think I did
    "You don't think," Croft cut him off"Listen, for as long as you've been in the platoon, Goldstein, you've done nothing but have ideas about how we could do something betterBut when it comes down to a little goddam work, you're always dicking offI've had enough of that bullshit from you
    Once again Goldstein was feeling a helpless angerA reaction he could not control, his agitation was even greater than his resentment and choked him so that he could not sp
    Friday, December 17th, 2010
    11:14 am
    @@@@@ How can I not fret? Scarlett wanted to
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    How can I not fret? Scarlett wanted to shoutMy life is ruined, and
    I don't know what to doI need Rhett, and he's goneI need you,
    and
    you're leaving me, tooShe lifted her head, wiped her tears away on
    her sleeve and straightened her aching shoulders
    The coals in the pot-bellied stove were nearly used up, and the bucket
    was emptyShe had to refill it, she had to feed the fire
    The room was beginning to chill, and Mammy must be kept warm
    Scarlett pulled the faded patchwork quilts up over Mammy's frail form,
    then she took the bucket out into the cold darkness of the yardShe
    hurried toward the coal bin, wishing she'd thought to put on a shawl
    There was no moon, only a crescent sliver lost behind a cloudThe air
    was heavy with night's moisture, and the few stars not hidden by
    clouds
    looked very far away and icy-brilliantThe blackness around her seemed formless,
    infinite
    She had rushed blindly into the center of the yard, and now she
    couldn't make out the familiar shapes of smoke-house and barn that
    should be nearbyShe turned in sudden panic, looking for the white
    bulk of the house she'd just leftBut it, too, was dark and
    formless
    No light showed anywhereIt was as if she were lost in a bleak and
    unknown and silent worldNothing was stirring in the night, not a
    leaf not a feather on a bird's wingTerror plucked at her taut
    nerves, and she wanted to runBut where to?
    Everywhere was alien darknessScarlett clenched her teethWhat
    kind
    of foolishness was this? I'm at home, at Tara, and the dark cold will
    be gone as soon as the sun's upShe forced a laugh; the shrill
    unnatural sound made her jumpThey do say it's always darkest
    before
    the dawn, she thou
    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
    11:47 am
    @@@@@Perhaps you wouldn’t understandThe Jackal’s
    @@@@@Perhaps you wouldn’t understandThe Jackal’s challenger, the man of many
    appearances, the Chameleon—the killer known as Jason Bourne—was not given to fear, we are
    told, only a great bravado that came from his strength
    Jason smiled grimly, in contradiction“Then you were told a lie,” he said softly“A part of that
    man lives with a kind of raw fear few people have ever experienced
    “I find that hard to believe, monsieur—”
    “BelieveWebb? It’s not difficult to piece things togetherDo you force yourself to assume
    your other self because of this fear?”
    David Webb stared at the old man“For God’s sake, what choice do I have?”
    “You could disappear for a time, you and your familyYou could live peacefully, in complete
    security, your government would see to it
    “He’d come after me—after us—wherever we were
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    146
    “For how long? A year? Eighteen months? Certainly less than two yearsHe’s a sick man; all
    Paris—my Paris—knows itConsidering the enormous expense and complexity of the current
    situation—these events designed to trap you—I would suggest that it’s Carlos’s last attemptJoin your wife in Basse-Terre and then fly thousands of miles away while you canLet
    him go back to Paris and die in frustrationIs it not enough?”
    “NoHe’d come after me, after us! It’s got to be settled here, now
    “I will soon join my woman, if such is to be, so I can disagree with certain people, men like you,
    for instance, Monsieur le Caméléon, whom I would have automatically agreed with beforeI think you can go far awayI think you know that you can put the Jackal in a side pocket and
    get on with your life, altered only slightly for a while, but you won’t do itSomething inside stops
    you; you cannot permit yourself a strategic retreat, no less honorable for its avoidance of violence
    Your family is safe but others may die, but even that doesn’t stop youYou have to win—”
    “I think that’s enough psychobabble,” interrupted Bourne, bringing the binoculars again to his
    eyes, concentrating on the scene below beyond the windows
    “That’s it, isn’t it?” said the Frenchman, studying Le Caméléon, his binoculars still at his si
    Friday, December 10th, 2010
    11:20 am
    @@@@@Jones had purchased Ilse's engagement ring
    @@@@@Jones had purchased Ilse's engagement
    ring at ZalesLess concrete, but just as
    persuasive to me, were my increasingly surreal
    drawingsThe phone-pad doodles of my previous
    life gave no hint of the haunted sunsets I was now
    doing
    I wasn't the first person to lose a body-part only
    to gain something elseIn Fredonia, New York, a
    logger cut off his own hand in the woods and then
    saved his life by cauterizing the spouting stump
    of his wristThe hand he took home, put in a jar
    of alcohol, and stored in the cellarThree years
    later the hand that was no longer south of his
    188
    wrist nevertheless began to feel freezing coldHe
    went downstairs and discovered a cellar window had
    broken and the winter wind was blowing in on the
    jar with his preserved hand floating insideWhen
    the ex-logger moved the jar next to the furnace,
    that sense of freezing cold disappeared
    A Russian peasant from Tura, deep in Siberia, lost
    his left arm up to the elbow in a piece of farming
    equipment and spent the rest of his life as a
    dowserWhen he stood over a spot where there was
    water, his left hand and arm, although no longer
    there, would grow cool, with an accompanying
    sensation of wetnessAccording to the articles I
    read (there were three), his skills never failed
    There was a guy in Nebraska who could predict
    tornadoes by the corns on his missing footA
    legless sailor in England who was used by his
    mates as a kind of human fish-finderA Japanese
    double amputee who became a respected poet - not a
    bad trick for a fellow who'd been illiterate at
    the time of the train accident in which he lost
    his arms
    Of all the stories, maybe the strangest was that
    of Kearney Jaffords of New Jersey, a child born
    189
    without armsShortly after his thirteenth
    birthday, this formerly well-adjusted handicapped
    child became hysterical, insisting to his parents
    that his arms were "hurting and buried on a farm
    He said he could show them whereThey drove two
    days, finishing up on a dirt road in Iowa,
    somewhere between Nowhere and Nowhere in
    ParticularThe kid led them into a cornfield,
    took a sighting on a nearby barn with a MAIL POUCH
    advertisement on the roof, and insisted that they
    digThe parents did, not because they expected to
    find anything but because they hoped to set the
    child's mind and body at rest againThree feet
    down they found two skeletonsOne was a female
    child between twelve and fifteenThe other was a
    man, age undeterminedThe Adair County Coroner
    estimated these bodies had been in the ground
    approximately twelve ye
    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
    11:18 am
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    turned my back to himI yanked my ragged birkin bag hermes shirt over my head and replaced it as quickly as my
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    I stripped off my tattered cutoff sweats and pulled the crisp new pants into placeMy shoes
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    Monday, December 6th, 2010
    11:33 am
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    "Major, I don't know what to tell you," Lanning protestedHe was a short rather stocky man with blond hair and pale-blue eyes
    "The facts will be sufficient," Binner drawled in his sad voice
    "Well, we went out on patrol, and since we'd gone to the same place the day before yesterday, I just coudn't see any point to it
    "Was that for you to gucci backpack judge?"
    "No, sir, it wasn't, but I could see the men weren't too happy, and when we got out about halfway I just set my squad down in a little draw, and waited an hour, and then I came on back and gave my report
    "And the report was completely false," Binner intoned"You said you had been to a place to whichin which you hadn't even been within a mile of
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    "Yes, sir, that's true," Sergeant Lanning said
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    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
    11:11 am
    @@@@@The sun would be up before they got there,
    @@@@@The sun would be up before they got there, and the work
    gang better be digging or she'd have something to say about itYou had to use the break in the weatherJoe Colleton was
    unshakeable"I come out like I said I would, MrsButler, but it's
    just like I expectedThe thaw don't go near deep enough to dig a
    cellarIt'll be another month before I can get started Scarlett
    cajoled, then she raged, but it did no goodShe was still fuming with
    frustration a month later when Colleton's message brought her back
    out
    to the siteShe didn't see Ashley until it was too late to turn
    back
    What am I going to tell him?
    I've got no call to be here, and Ashley's so smart he'd see right
    through any lie I might tryShe was sure the hasty smile on her face
    looked as ghastly as she feltIf it did, Ashley didn't seem to
    noticeHe handed her down from her carriage with his usual ingrained
    courtesy"I'm happy I didn't miss you, Scarlett; it's so good to see
    youColleton told me you might be coming, so I dallied as long
    as I could He smiled ú ruefully"We both know I'm not much of a
    businessman, my dear, so my advice isn't worth much, but I do want
    to
    say that if you do, in fact, build another store out here, you can't
    possibly go wrong What is he going on about? Oh How clever Joe Colleton is, he's made my excuse for being here
    alreadyShe ú turned her attention back to Ashleyand I've
    heard that the city's very likely to run a trolley line out here to the
    edge of townIt's amazing, isn't it, the way Atlanta is growing?"
    Ashley looked strongerVery tired by the effort of living, but more
    capable of itScarlett wished urgently that it meant the lumber ú
    business was better
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