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| Monday, January 3rd, 2011 | | 3:07 am |
@@@@@“You’re too much, PeterHelp me up, will you? @@@@@“You’re too much, PeterHelp me up, will you? I’ll go back to the lounge and wait for youCome on, give me a hand “The hell I will,” said Holland, getting to his feet and standing over Conklin Someone told me that the Saint made it back through a hundred and forty miles in enemy territory, through rivers and streams and jungle, and arrived at the Foxtrot base camp asking if anybody had a bottle of bourbon “Yeah, well, that was differentI was a hell of a lot younger and I had another foot “Pretend you got one now, Saint Alex“I’m going back insideOne of us has to be there “Bastard!” For an hour and forty-seven minutes Conklin sat in the loungeHis attachable footless foot never throbbed, but it was throbbing nowHe did not know what the impossible feeling meant, but he could not dismiss the beat that surged through his legIf nothing else, it was something to think about, and he thought wistfully of the younger days, when he had both feet, and beforeOh, how he had wanted to change the world! And how he had felt so right in a destiny that forced him to become the youngest valedictorian in his high school’s history, the youngest freshman ever accepted at Georgetown, a bright, bright light that shimmered at the end of the tunnels of academe His decline started when someone, somewhere, found out that his name at birth was not Alexander Conklin but Aleksei Nikolae KonsolikovThat now faceless man had casually asked him a question, the answer to which had changed Conklin’s life “Do you by any chance speak Russian?” “Of course,” he had replied, amused that his visitor would even think he might not“As you obviously know, my parents were immigrantsI grew up not only in a Russian home but in a Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 244 Russian neighborhood—at least in the early yearsYou couldn’t buy a loaf of bread at the ovoshchnoi otdel if you didn’tAnd at church school the older priests and nuns, like the Poles, held ferociously on to the languageI’m sure it contributed to my leaving the faith “Those were the early years, however, as I believe you mentioned “What changed?” “I’m sure it’s in your government report somewhere and will hardly satisfy | | Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 | | 3:07 am |
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@@@@@It's because Pansy's here,
that's why he's @@@@@It's because Pansy's here, that's why he's putting on this actWhen she's gone, he'll turn on meMaybe I can say I need her to stay with me-but for what? I'm already undressed, and I can't put my clothes on again until they dry, and Lord knows when that will be, with the rain outside and the inside so dankHow can Rhett bear to live in this place? It's awful! The room they were in was lit only by the fireIt was a large square, perhaps twenty feet to a side, with a packed-earth floor and stained walls that had lost most of their plasterIt smelled of cheap whiskey and tobacco juice, with an underlay of scorched wood and fabricThe only furniture was an assortment of crude stools and benches, plus a scattering of dented metal cuspidorsThe mantelpiece over the wide fireplace and the frames around the doors and windows looked like some kind of mistakeThey were made of pine, beautifully carved with a delicate fretwork design and oiled to a glowing golden brownIn one corner there was a rough staircase with splintered wooden treads and a sagging, unsafe railingScarlett's and Pansy's clothes were draped over the length of itThe white petticoats billowed from time to time when a draft caught them, like ghosts lurking in deep shadows "Why didn't you stay in Charleston, Scarlett?" Supper was over and Pansy had been sent to sleep with the old black woman who cooked for RhettScarlett squared her shoulders"Your mother didn't want to disturb you in your paradise here She looked around the room disdainfully"But I believe you should know what's going on There's a Yankee soldier creeping into bedrooms at night-ladies' bedrooms-and handling themOne girl went clean out of her mind and had to be sent off She tried to read his face, but it was expressionlessHe was looking at her, silent, as if he was waiting for something"Well? Don't you care that your mother and I could be murdered in our beds, or something worse?" Rhett's mouth turned down in a derisive smile"Am I hearing correctly? Maidenly timidity from the woman who drove a wagon through the entire Yankee army because it was in her way? Come, now, ScarlettYou've been known to tell the truth Why did you come all this way in the rain? Were you hoping to catch me in the arms of a light o' love? Did Henry Hamilton recommend that as a way to get me to start paying your bills again?" "What on earth are you talking about, Rhett Butler? What has Uncle Henry got to do with anything?" "Such convincing ignorance! I compliment | | Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 | | 3:07 am |
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excuses for @@@@@It also provides palpable excuses for anyone wishing to be early or late, or having arrived at the right destination or the wrong oneIn a phrase, Parisians behind a steering wheel embody the last civilized vestiges of lethal abandon—possibly outdone by their counterparts in Rome or AthensAnd so it was for the Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 275 Magdalen Sisters of Charity, especially for the officious superior hen on the single rear pointAt an intersection of the rue Lecourbe in Montparnasse, a congestion of produce trucks prevented her from keeping up with her religious colleaguesBenignly she waved them on and abruptly turned into a narrow side street, suddenly pedaling faster than beforeBourne, his wound from Tranquility Isle now pulsating throughout his neck, did not increase his pace; he did not have toThe whitelettered blue sign on the building fronting the street read IMPASSE, a dead end; there was no other way out He found the bicycle chained to an extinguished street lamp and waited in the darkness of a doorway no more than fifteen feet awayHe raised his hand and touched the warm moistness of the bandage around his neck; the bleeding was slightWith luck, no more than one suture had burst Oh, Christ, his legs were tired—no, “tired” was inadequateThey ached with the pain that came with unused and abused muscles; the rhythmic strides of jogging, even running, were no preparation for lurching or weaving, or for violently sudden stops and startsHe leaned against the stone, breathing heavily, his eyes on the bicycle, trying to suppress a thought that kept recurring with infuriating regularity: only a few short years ago, he would never have noticed the discomfort in his legsThere would have been none The sound of an unlatched bolt broke the stillness of the predawn narrow street, followed rapidly by the grating noise of a heavy door being openedIt was the entrance to the flat in front of the chained bicycleHis back against the wall, Jason removed the gun from his belt and watched the woman in the nun’s habit rush to the lamppostShe fumbled with a key in the dim light, awkwardly trying to insert it into the base of the lockBourne stepped out on the pavement and walked swiftly, silently forward “You’ll be late for early Mass,” he said The woman spun around, the key flying into the street, her black cloth snapping in the turn as she plunged her right hand between the folds of her habitJason lurched, gripping her arm with his left hand and tearing off the large white hat with his rightAt the sight of the exposed face in front of him, he gasped “My God,” he whispered“It’s you!” Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 276 27 “I know you!” cried Bourne | | Monday, December 27th, 2010 | | 3:07 am |
@@@@@We were sitting on the sawhorses
in front @@@@@We were sitting on the sawhorses in front of the Mean Dog house a day or two before the Godfreys were scheduled to arriveThe crushed-shell driveway was glistening a damp pink Wireman had turned on the sprinklers"He just leaves whatever he's got at the foot of the mailbox post, honks, and then rolls wheels for El PalacioAnd do I blame him? Non, non, Nannette "Wireman, about the doctor-" "March, muchacho, and before the Ides 339 "You're just putting it off," I saidI have only one busy season, and this be itI got caught a little off-guard last year, but it's not going to happen this time aroundIt can't happen this time around, because this year Miss Eastlake's going to be far less capable of pitching inAt least the Mean Dogs are returners, known quantities, and so are the BaumgartensI like the Baumgartens "Either of them girls?" I asked, thinking about Elizabeth's prejudice concerning daughters and Duma "Nope, both the kind of boys who ought to have GOT IT MADE BUT DON'T HOLD IT AGAINST US stamped on their foreheadsThe people coming into the other four houses are all newI can hope that none of them will be the rock-and-roll-all-night, partyevery- day type, but what are the odds?" "Not good, but you can at least hope they left their Slipknot CDs home "Who's Slipknot? What's Slipknot?" "Wireman, you don't want to knowEspecially not while you're busy working yourself into a stateWireman is just explaining February on Duma Key, muchachoI'm going to be fielding everything from emergency queries about what to do if one of the Baumgarten boys gets stung by a jellyfish to where Rita Mean Dog can get a fan for her grandmother, who they'll probably stash in the back bedroom again for a week or soYou think Miss Eastlake's getting on? I've seen Mexican mummies hauled through the streets of Guadalajara on the Day of the Dead who looked better than Gramma Mean DogShe's got two basic lines of conversationThere's the inquisitive line - 'Did you bring me a cookie?' - and the declarative - 'Get me a towel, Rita, I think that last fart had a lump in it'" I burst out laughing Wireman scraped a sneaker through the shells, creating a smile with his fo | | Sunday, December 26th, 2010 | | 3:07 am |
@@@@@Did other species have such a simple healer? @@@@@Did other species have such a simple healer? I couldn't remember one I touched my lips and remembered how it felt to kiss Jared, and how it felt to kiss IanNot everyone got to kiss so many other beautiful bodiesI'd had more than some, even in this short time It was just so short! Maybe a year now, I wasn't completely sureJust one quick revolution of a blue green planet around an unexceptional yellow starThe shortest life of any I'd ever lived The shortest, the most important, the most heartbreaking of livesThe life that would forever define meThe life that had finally tied me to one star, to one planet, to one small family of strangers A little more time… would that be so wrong? No,Mel whisperedust take a little more time You never know how much time you'll have,I whispered backI knew exactly how much time I hadI couldn't take any more timeI had to do the right thing, be my true self, with what time I had left With a sigh that seemed to come all the way from the soles of my feet and the palms of my hands, I got up Aaron and Brandt wouldn't wait foreverAnd now I had a few more questions that I needed answeredThis time, the questions were for Doc The caves were full of sad, cast-down eyesIt was easy enough to slip unobtrusively past them allNo one cared what I was doing right now, except maybe Jeb, Brandt, and Aaron, and they weren't here I didn't have an open, rainy field, but at least I had the long south tunnelIt was too dark to run flat out the way I wanted, but I kept up a steady | | Saturday, December 25th, 2010 | | 3:07 am |
@@@@@I wish I could talk to Polack, he'd know how @@@@@I wish I could talk to Polack, he'd know how to work itMinetta looked at his handsI'm as good a man as PolackI can be out while he's still talking about itThey'll only keep me here a couple of days, and then they'll send me to another hospital where they keep the looniesIf I get there, I'll be able to copy themAbruptly, he was depressed againThat doc is watching me, I'm gonna have a tough time of itMinetta hobbled over to a table in the center of the tent, and picked up a magazineIf I get out, he told himself, I could write Polack a letter and say, "Who's crazy now?" Minetta began to giggle as he thought of Polack's face when he read thatIt's just a question of guts, he said to himself He lay down and remained without moving for half an hour, holding the magazine over his faceThe sun had heated the tent until it felt like a steam room, and Minetta was weak and miserableA tension increased inside him, and suddenly, without allowing himself to think, he stood up and shrieked, "Fug yez all "Take it easy," a soldier said from a nearby cot Minetta threw his magazine at him, and screamed, "There's a Jap outside the fuggin tent, there's a Jap right over there, right over there He looked about wildly, and shouted, "Where's a gun, gimme a gun He was shaking with excitementHe picked up his rifle, and pointed it through the door of the tent"There's the Jap, there he is," he screamed, and fired the rifleHe heard it numbly, a little amazed at his audacityI ought to be an actor, went through his mindHe waited, expecting the soldiers to grab him, but no one movedThey were watching him warily, frozen with astonishment and fear on their cots"Get rid of your guns, men, they're attacking," he said, and threw his gun to the gr | | Friday, December 24th, 2010 | | 3:07 am |
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The retired intelligence officer reached under his jacket for the small Beretta automatic that was his constant companion, and lurched rapidly forward, limping and flailing his cane against the crowd, smashing kneecaps and prodding stomachs and breasts and kidneys until the stunned, angry strollers erupted in successive cries of shock, a near riot in the prada logo makin | | Friday, December 17th, 2010 | | 3:06 am |
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but she began to hope they might be rectifiedSusan, she found, looked up to her and wished for her good opinion; and new as anything like an office of authority was to Fanny, new as it was to imagine herself capable of guiding or informing any one, she did resolve to give occasional hints to Susan, and endeavour to exercise for her advantage the juster notions of what was due to everybody, and what would be wisest for herself, which her own more favoured education had fixed in her Her influence, or at least the consciousness and use of it, originated in an act of kindness by Susan, which, after many hesitations of delicacy, she at last worked herself up toIt had very early occurred to her that a small sum of money might, perhaps, restore peace for ever on the sore subject of the silver knife, canvassed as it now was continually, and the riches which she was in possession of herself, her uncle having given her £10 at parting, made her as able as she was willing to be generousBut she was so wholly unused to confer favours, except on the very poor, so unpractised in removing evils, or bestowing kindnesses among her equals, and so fearful of appearing to elevate herself as a great lady at home, that it took some time to determine that it would not be unbecoming in her to make such a presentIt was made, however, at last: a silver knife was bought for Betsey, and accepted with great delight, its newness giving it every advantage over the other that could be desired; Susan was established in the full possession of her own, Betsey handsomely declaring that now she had got one so much prettier herself, she should never want that again; and no reproach seemed conveyed to the equally satisfied mother, which Fanny had almost feared to be impossibleThe deed thoroughly answered: a source of domestic altercation was entirely done away, and it was the means of opening Susan’s heart to her, and giving her something more to love and be interested inSusan shewed that she had delicacy: pleased as she was to be mistress of property which she had been struggling for at least two years, she yet feared that her sister’s judgment had been against her, and that a reproof was designed her for having so struggled as to make the purchase necessary for the tranquillity of the houseShe acknowledged her fears, blamed herself for having contended so warmly; and from that hour Fanny, 347 Jane Austen understanding the worth of her disposition and perceiving how fully she was inclined to seek her good opinion and refer to her judgment, began to feel again the blessing of affection, and to entertain the hope of being useful to a mind so much in need of help, and so much deserving itShe gave advice, advice too sound to be resisted by a good understanding, and given so mildly and considerately as not to irritate an imperfect temper, and she had the happiness of observing its good effects not unfrequentlyMore was not expected by one who, while seeing all the obligation and expediency of submission and forbearance, saw also with sympathetic acuteness of feeling all that must be hourly grating to a girl like SusanHer greatest wonder on the subject soon became—not that Susan should have been provoked into disrespect and impatience against her better knowledge—but that so much better knowledge, so many good notions should have been hers at all; 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but wealth is luxurious and daring, and some of hers found its way to a circulating libraryShe became a subscriber; amazed at being anything in propria persona, amazed at her own doings in every way, to be a renter, a chuser of books! And to be having any one’s improvement in view in her choice! But so it | | Monday, December 6th, 2010 | | 3:13 am |
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