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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:50 am
    @@@@@Of course, it was a hell of a lot easier
    @@@@@Of course, it was a hell of a lot easier with a computer doing the
    scanning
    “You might have included a note! I’ve been poring over these things since eight o’clock
    “I didn’t find it—them—until after nine and I didn’t want to call you from Virginia
    “That’s another story, isn’t it?” said Bourne, sitting down on the couch, once again leaning
    forward anxiously
    “Yes, it is, and it’s God-awful
    “Medusa?”
    “It’s worse than I thought, and worse than that, I didn’t think it could be
    “It’s a bowelful,” countered the retired intelligence officerPentagon
    procurements? The Federal Trade Commission? Our ambassador in London, or would you like the
    supreme commander of NATO?”
    “My God !”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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    “Oh, I can go one betterFor size, try on the chairman of the Joint Chiefs
    “Christ, what is it? Some kind of cabal?”
    “That’s so academic, DrNow try collusion, down deep and elusive and after all these
    years still breathing, still aliveThey’re in contact with each other in high placesWhy?”
    “What’s the purpose? The objective?”
    “I just said that, asked that, really
    “There has to be a reason!”
    “Try motiveI just said that, too, and it may be as simple as hiding past sinsIsn’t that what we
    were looking for? A collection of former Medusans who’d run to the hills at the thought of the past
    coming to light?”
    “Then that’s it
    “No, it’s not, and this is Saint Alex’s instincts searching for wordsTheir reactions were too
    immediate, too visceral, too loaded with today, not twenty years agoSomething’s different from what we expected, and I’m goddamned sick of
    making mistakesBut this isn’t a mistakeYou said this morning that it could be a net work, and
    I thought you were way the hell off baseI thought that maybe we’d find a few high profiles who
    didn’t want to be publicly drawn and quartered for things they did twenty years ago, or who
    legitimately didn’t want to embarrass the government, and we could use them, force them in their
    collective fear to do things and say things we told them to doBut this is differentIt’s today, and I
    can’t figure it
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    2:50 am
    @@@@@They'd learned the word from their mothers,
    @@@@@They'd learned the
    word from their mothers, the Gaelic for witchCat looked up at her
    mother"Yes, I'd like a pony," she saidPonies didn't throw
    things
    She considered telling her mother about the boys, asking her about
    the
    wordCat liked to learn new wordsBut she didn't like that word"I'd like a pony today
    "I can't find a pony today, babyI'll start looking tomorrow
    Let's go home now and have tea
    "With cakes?"
    "Definitely with cakes Up in their rooms Scarlett got out of her
    beautiful travelling suit as quickly as she couldShe felt an
    undefined need to wear her shirt and skirt and bright peasant
    stockingsBy mid-December Scarlett was pacing the long hallways of
    the Big House like a caged animalShe had forgotten how much she
    hated the dark, short, wet days of winterShe thought about going
    down to Kennedy's several times, but ever since her unfortunate party
    for all the townspeople, she no longer felt as easy with them as once
    she hadShe rode a little bitIt wasn't necessary, the grooms kept
    all the horses exercisedBut she needed to be out, even in the
    ice-filled rainWhen there were a few hours of sun she watched while
    Cat rode her Shetland pony in great joyful loops across the frozen
    meadowScarlett knew it was bad for next summer's grass, but Cat
    was
    as restless as she wasIt was all Scarlett could do to persuade her
    to stay indoors, even in the kitchen or the stables
    On Christmas Eve Cat lit the Christ Child candle and then all the
    candles she could reach on the Christmas treeColum held her up to
    reach the higher ones
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    2:50 am
    @@@@@Her vivid hair was wound into a high bun,
    @@@@@Her vivid hair was
    wound into a high bun, so I could see that her neck was stiff, and her shoulders were hunched,
    tense and unhappyIt made me want to leave at once, before Doc could say whatever he meant
    to say to me, so that I could not be considered in collusion with him
    But Jamie was with me, and he took my hand when he saw the familiar panicked look come
    into my eyesHe was developing an uncanny ability to sense when I was turning skittishI
    sighed and stayed where I wasIt should probably have bothered me more that I was such a
    slave to this child's wishes
    “How are things?” Doc asked in a casual voice, sliding onto the counter next to me
    Ian, a few feet down from us, turned his body so it looked like he was part of the group
    “We boiled soup today,” Jamie announced“My eyes are still stinging
    Doc held up a pair of bright red hands
    Doc gave a mocking bow from the waist, then turned to me“Wanda, I had a question for
    you” He let the words trail off
    I raised my eyebrows
    “Well, I was wondering Of all the different planets you're familiar with, which species is
    physically the closest to humankind?”
    I blinked“Why?”
    “Just good old-fashioned biological curiosityI guess I've been thinking about your Healers
    Where do they get the knowledge to cure, rather than just treat symptoms, as you said?” Doc
    was speaking louder than necessary, his mild voice carrying farther than usualSeveral people
    looked up–Trudy and Geoffrey, Lily, Walter…
    I wrapped my arms tightly around myself, trying to take up less space“Those are two different
    questions,” I murmured
    Doc smiled and gestured with one hand for me to proceed
    Jamie squeezed my hand“The Bears on the Mists Planet, proba
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    2:50 am
    @@@@@ Yank, got a shilling or two? Yank? Okay,
    @@@@@
    Yank, got a shilling or two?
    Yank? Okay, he mumbles
    The blonde prostitutes to whom he makes loveOh, what a roll you got, Joolie, what a bloody bloody rollLieutenant Bradford now, I frig Peggy Reilly and Alice Stewart, I will be hero

    Martinez looks at a blade of grassThe whip of the bullet is lost crying in the wildernessHe crawls, slithers behind a stumpThe grenade is heavy and dull in his palmHe lofts it into the air, hugs his head in the deep secret embrace(Momma's arms are great and her breasts are soft
    Did ya get the sonofabitch?
    Where the hell is he?
    Martinez inches forwardThe Jap lies on his back with his chin jerked toward heavenThe white tripe of his gut makes a flower on the field of red
    You're a good old bastard, Martinez

    Martinez made sergeantLittle Mexican boys also breathe the American fablesIf they cannot be aviators or financiers or officers they can still be heroesNo need to stumble over pebbles and search the Texas skyAny man jack can be a hero
    Only that does not make you white Protestant, firm and aloof



    3

    AN ARGUMENT was about to break in officers' messFor the last ten minutes Lieutenant Colonel Conn had been conducting a tirade against labor unions, and Lieutenant Hearn was getting restlessIt was a bad place to hold one's temperThe mess had been set up with a great deal of haste, and it was not really big enough to feed forty officersTwo squad tents had been connected, but even then it was rather cramped, not nearly roomy enough to hold six tables, twelve benches, and the equipment of the field kitchen at one e
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    2:50 am
    @@@@@How could it be otherwise, with such an
    @@@@@How could it be otherwise,
    with such an education and adviser? Under the disadvantages, indeed,
    which both have had, is it not wonderful that they should be
    what they are? Crawford’s feelings, I am ready to acknowledge, have
    hitherto been too much his guidesHappily, those feelings have generally
    been goodYou will supply the rest; and a most fortunate man
    he is to attach himself to such a creature—to a woman who, firm as a
    rock in her own principles, has a gentleness of character so well adapted
    to recommend themHe has chosen his partner, indeed, with rare
    felicityHe will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you
    happy; but you will make him everything
    “I would not engage in such a charge,” cried Fanny, in a shrinking
    accent; “in such an office of high responsibility!”
    “As usual, believing yourself unequal to anything! fancying everything
    too much for you! Well, though I may not be able to persuade
    you into different feelings, you will be persuaded into them, I trust
    I confess myself sincerely anxious that you mayI have no common
    interest in Crawford’s well-doingNext to your happiness, Fanny,
    his has the first claim on meYou are aware of my having no common
    interest in Crawford
    Fanny was too well aware of it to have anything to say; and they
    walked on together some fifty yards in mutual silence and abstraction
    Edmund first began again—
    “I was very much pleased by her manner of speaking of it yesterday,
    particularly pleased, because I had not depended upon her seeing
    everything in so just a lightI knew she was very fond of you;
    but yet I was afraid of her not estimating your worth to her brother
    quite as it deserved, and of her regretting that he had not rather
    fixed on some woman of distinction or fortuneI was afraid of the
    bias of those worldly maxims, which she has been too much used to
    305
    Jane Austen
    hearBut it was very differentShe spoke of you, Fanny, just as she
    oughtShe desires the connexion as warmly as your uncle or myself
    We had a long talk about itI should not have mentioned the subject,
    though very anxious to know her sentiments; but I had not
    been in the room five minutes before she began introducing it with
    all that openness of heart, and sweet peculiarity of manner, that spirit
    and ingenuousness which are so much a part of herselfGrant
    laughed at her for her rapidityGrant in the room, then?”
    “Yes, when I reached the house I found the two sisters together by
    themselves; and when once we had begun, we had not done with
    you, Fanny, till Crawford and Dr
    “It is above a week since I saw Miss Crawford
    “Yes, she laments it; yet owns it may have been bestYou will see
    her, however, before she goesShe is very angry with you, Fanny;
    you must be prepared for tha
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    2:50 am
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    “I don’t think he’ll bite you; he probably wants to thank youThere’s a
    storm coming up from Basse-Terre and we’ll need the CG’s input if the phones go out
    “I myself shall perform whatever service he requires, sir!”
    “Well, there are limitsDon’t brush his teeth
    Brendan Prefontaine hurried through the door of the circular glass-walled lobbyHe had waited
    until the old Frenchman had turned into the first villa before reversing direction and heading
    straight for the main complexAs chanel watch j12 he had done so many times over the past thirty years, he was
    forced to think quickly on his feet—usually running feet—building plausible explanations that
    would support a number of obvious possibilities as well as others not so obviousHe had just
    committed an unavoidable yet stupid error, unavoidable because he was not prepared to give
    Tranquility Inn’s desk a false name in case identification was required, and stupid because he had
    given a false name to the hero of FranceWell, balenciaga replica not stupid; the similarity of their surnames might
    have led to unwanted complications where the purpose of his trip to Montserrat was concerned,
    which was quite simply extortion—to learn what so frightened Randolph Gates that he would part
    with fifteen thousand dollars, and having learned it perhaps collect a great deal moreNo, the
    stupidity was in not taking the precautionary step he was about to takeHe approached the front
    desk and the tall, slender clerk behind it
    “Good ladies gucci watch evening, sir,” fairly yelled the inn’s employee, causing the judge to look around, grateful
    that there were very few guests in the lobby“However I may assist you, be assured of my
    perfection!”
    “I’d rather be assured of your keeping your voice down, young man
    “I shall whisper,” said the clerk inaudibly
    “What did you say?”
    “How may I help you?” intoned the man, now sotto voce
    “Let’s just talk quietly, all right?”
    “CertainlyI am so very privileged
    “You are?”
    “Of course
    “Very well,” prada logo said Prefontaine“I have a favor to ask of you—”
    “Anything!”
    “Shhh!”
    “Naturally
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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    “Like many men of advanced age I frequently forget things, you can understand that, can’t
    you?”
    “A man of your wisdom I doubt forgets anythingI’m traveling incognito, you do know what I mean
    “Most assuredly, sir
    “I registered under my name, Prefontaine—”
    “You certainly did,” interrupted the clerkMy office and those I’ve told to reach me expect to ask for a gucci mens wallet ‘Mr
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    2:50 am
    @@@@@"They'll find plenty of company, for many
    @@@@@"They'll find plenty of company, for
    many of the Big houses in Ireland are doing just what you're
    proposing
    Not a day goes by we don't have a dozen or more poor souls begging a
    bowl of soup at the kitchen doorWill you add to their number?"
    Scarlett strode impatiently to the window"No, of course not, don't
    be ridiculousBut there must be some way we can cut expenses"It's
    more costly to feed your fine horses than your ) Mrs
    Fitzpatrick's voice was coldScarlett turned on her"That will be
    all," she said furiously
    She picked up the book and went to her deskBut she was too upset
    to
    concentrate on the accountsFitz be so mean? She
    must know that I enjoy hunting more than anything else in my life
    The
    only thing that's getting me through this horrible summer is knowing
    that come fall, the hunting will begin againScarlett closed her eyes
    and tried to remember the crisp cold mornings, with the night's light
    frost turned to trailing mist, and the sound of the horn signalling the
    beginning of the chaseA tiny muscle jumped involuntarily in the soft
    flesh over her clenched jawShe wasn't good at imagining, she was
    good at doingShe opened her eyes and worked doggedly on the
    accountsWith no grain to sell and no rents to collect, she was going
    to lose money this yearThe knowledge bothered her, because she
    had
    a] ways made money in business and losing it was a highly
    disagreeable
    changeBut Scarlett had grown up in a world where it was accepted
    that sometimes a crop failed or a storm wrought havocShe knew
    that
    next year would be different, and certainly betterShe was not a
    failure because of the disaster of the drought and the hailIt wasn't
    like the lumber business or the store where she would have been
    responsible if there had been no profitBesides, the losses would
    barely make a dent in her fortunecould be extravagant for the rest
    of her life, and the crops at hara could fail every year, and she
    would still have plenty of money Scarlett sighed unconsciou
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    2:50 am
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    rolex ladies watch,louis vuitton vernis,birkin bag hermes,pasha cartier,rolex submariner replica@@@@@A heavy one caught me right between the shoulder blades, and I cried out in pain
    “Stop hurting her!” Jamie howled
    There was a sharp crack, and someone gasped
    I struggled to pull myself out from under the heavy carton, rising up on my elbows dizzily
    Jared had one hand over his nose, and something dark was oozing down over his lipsHis eyes
    were wide with rolex ladies watch surpriseJamie stood in front of him with both hands clenched into fists, a
    furious scowl on his face
    Jamie's scowl melted slowly while Jared stared at him in shockHurt took its place–hurt and a
    betrayal so deep that it rivaled Jared's expression in the kitchen
    “You aren't the man I thought you were,” Jamie whisperedHe looked at Jared as though Jared
    were louis vuitton vernis very far away, as if there were a wall between them and Jamie was utterly isolated on his
    side
    Jamie's eyes started to swim, and he turned his head, ashamed of showing weakness in front of
    JaredHe walked away with quick, jerky movements
    We tried,Melanie thought sadlyHer heart ached after the child, even as she longed for me to
    return my eyes to the manI gave birkin bag hermes her what she wanted
    Jared wasn't looking at meHe was staring at the blackness into which Jamie had disappeared,
    his hand still covering his nose
    “Aw,damn it! ” he suddenly shouted“Jamie! Get back here!”
    There was no answer
    Jared threw one bleak glance in my direction–I cringed away, though his fury seemed to have
    faded–then scooped up the flashlight and pasha cartier stomped after Jamie, kicking a box out of his way
    “I'm sorry, okay? Don't cry, kid!” He called out more angry apologies as he turned the corner
    and left me lying in the darkness
    For a long moment, it was all I could do to breatheI concentrated on the air flowing in, then
    out, then inAfter I felt I had that part mastered, I worked on getting up off the rolex submariner replica floor
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    2:50 am
    quilted bag chanel,gold gucci,cartier pasha...
    quilted bag chanel,gold gucci,cartier pasha watch,chanel white j12 watch,omega pocket watch@@@@@"Weather's fixin' to act up," he said quietly
    "More fuggin rain," Gallagher snorted
    Dark slated clouds were washing the eastern sky and mounting thunderheads in the north and southThe air was leaden and moist, hanging limp without a murmurEven the coconut trees seemed swollen and expectant, their leaves drooping languidly over and raw chopped earth of the bivouac
    "That corduroy we put in is gonna be washed out," quilted bag chanel Gallagher saidRed looked out across the area and scowledThe tents were sagging, and appeared gloomy and somber although the sun was still shining with a dull red glow in the west
    "Just so we don't get our tails wet," Red said
    He debated for a moment whether to go back to his tent and deepen the rain trench, which had almost overflowed in the previous night's downpour, and then he shruggedIt was about time Wyman learned gold gucci how to do itHe crouched and dropped into the hole in which Gallagher and Wilson were resting nowIt was a hole about two feet deep and about as wide and long as a double bedWilson and Gallagher slept side by side in it with two blankets between them and the earthOverhead they had anchored a ridgepole of bamboo on two uprights, had draped their combined ponchos over it, and staked the ends to the ground on each side of the cartier pasha watch holeIt was possible to kneel inside the tent without bumping one's head against the ridgepole, but not even an eight-year-old child could have stood in itFrom outside, the shelter appeared to be no more than two feet above the level of the groundThis tent was typical of almost all the pup tents in the bivouac
    Red lay down between them, and stared out at the obtuse triangle of sky and jungle visible from the head of chanel white j12 watch the tentThey had dug the hole to fit their bodies, and Red's long legs dangled over the rain trench at the entranceWhen the rain blew in the open end, it collected in the trench, which was lower than any other part of the holeNow it was still muddy
    "Next time you men dig a tent right, so a guy can get in it," Red said
    "If you men don' like it, get the hell out," Gallagher grumbled
    "That's your Boston hospitality," Red omega pocket watch
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    2:50 am
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    Susan was her only companion and listener on this, as on more
    common occasionsSusan was always ready to hear and to
    sympathiseNobody else could be interested in so remote an evil as
    illness in a family above an hundred miles off; not even MrsPrice,
    beyond a brief question or two, if she saw her daughter with a letter
    in her hand, and now and then the quiet observation of, “My poor
    sister Bertram must be in a great deal of trouble
    So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were
    little more than nothingAn attachment, originally as tranquil as
    their tempers, was now become a mere namePrice did quite
    as much for Lady Bertram as Lady Bertram would have done for
    MrsThree or four Prices might have been swept away, any or
    all except necklace chanel Fanny and William, and Lady Bertram would have thought
    little about it; or perhaps might have caught from MrsNorris’s lips
    the cant of its being a very happy thing and a great blessing to their
    poor dear sister Price to have them so well provided for
    376
    Mansfield Park
    CHAPTER XLV
    AT ABOUT THE WEEK’S END from his return to Mansfield, Tom’s immediate
    danger was over, and he was so far pronounced safe as to
    make his mother perfectly easy; for being now used to the sight of
    him in his suffering, helpless state, and hearing only the best, and
    never thinking beyond what she heard, with no disposition for alarm
    and no aptitude at a hint, Lady Bertram was the happiest subject in
    the world for a little medical impositionThe fever was subdued;
    the fever had chanel cc earrings been his complaint; of course he would soon be well
    againLady Bertram could think nothing less, and Fanny shared
    her aunt’s security, till she received a few lines from Edmund, written
    purposely to give her a clearer idea of his brother’s situation, and
    acquaint her with the apprehensions which he and his father had
    imbibed from the physician with respect to some strong hectic symptoms,
    which seemed to seize the frame on the departure of the fever
    They judged it best that Lady Bertram should not be harassed by
    alarms which, it was to be hoped, would prove unfounded; but there
    was no reason why Fanny should not know the truthThey were
    apprehensive for his lungs
    A very few lines from Edmund shewed her the patient and the
    sickroom in a juster and stronger louis vuitton travel light than all Lady Bertram’s sheets
    of paper could doThere was hardly any one in the house who
    might not have described, from personal observation, better than
    herself; not one who was not more useful at times to her sonShe
    could do nothing but glide in quietly and look at him; but when
    able to talk or be talked to, or read to, Edmund was the companion
    he preferredHis aunt worried him by her cares, and Sir Thomas
    knew not how to bring down his conversation or his voice to the
    level of irritation and feeblenessEdmund was all in allFanny would
    certainly believe him so at least, and must find that her estimation
    377
    Jane Austen
    of him was higher than ever when he appeared as the attendant,
    supporter, cheerer of a suffering brotherThere was not only gucci women watch the
    debility of recent illness to assist: there was also, as she now learnt,
    nerves much affected, spirits much depressed to calm and raise, and
    her own imagination added that there must be a mind to be properly
    guided
    The family were not consumptive, and she was more inclined to
    hope than fear for her cousin, except when she thought of Miss
    Crawford; but Miss Crawford gave her the idea of being the child of
    good luck, and to her selfishness and vanity it would be good luck
    to have Edmund the only son
    Even in the sick chamber the fortunate Mary was not forgotten
    Edmund’s letter had this postscript“On the subject of my last, I
    had actually begun a letter when called away by Tom’s illness, but I
    have now changed my mind, and fear to trust the influence of gucci messenger bag fri
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    2:50 am
    @@@@@ “Which were?” Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE
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    “Which were?”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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    “His usual two crewmen weren’t with himHe dismissed them at the yacht club, saying he
    wanted to take the boat out by himself, yet he told Henry he was going out for the running big
    fish—”
    “Which means he would’ve had to have a crew,” interrupted the Canadian physician
    “Yes, he would’ve,” agreed the owner of Tranquility Inn“You can’t fish the big fellas and
    skipper a boat at the same time—at least the CG couldn’tHe was afraid to take his eyes off the
    charts
    “But he could read them, couldn’t he?” asked Jason“The charts?”
    “As a navigator, he was no Captain Bligh sailing by the Pacific stars, but he was good enough to
    stay out of trouble
    “He was told to go out alone,” said Bourne“Ordered to rendezvous with a boat in waters that
    called for him to really keep his eyes on the charts Jason suddenly realized that the doctor’s
    nimble fingers were no longer touching his neck; instead, there was the constricting bandage and
    the physician was standing beside him looking down“How are we doing?” asked Bourne, looking
    up, an appreciative smile creasing his lips
    “We’re done,” said the Canadianthen I think we’d better meet later, for a drink, all right?”
    “Good heavens, you’re just getting to the good part
    “It’s not good, Doctor, it’s not good at all, and I’d be a very ungrateful patient—which I’m
    not—if I even unwittingly let you hear things I don’t think you should hear
    The elderly Canadian locked his eyes with Jason’s“You mean that, don’t you? In spite of
    everything that’s happened, you really don’t want to involve me any furtherAnd you’re not
    playing melodramatic games, secrecy for secrecy’s sake—an old dodge for inferior doctors,
    incidentally—but you’re really concerned, aren’t you?”
    “I guess I am
    “Considering what’s happened to you, and I don’t just mean these past few hours, which I’ve
    been a part of, but what the scars on your body tell me you’ve been through before, it’s rather
    remarkable that you can be concerned for anyone but yourselfYou’re a strange man, Mr
    At times you even sound like two different people
    “I’m not strange, Doctor,” said Jason Bourne, momentarily closing his eyes, his lids briefly
    tight“I don’t want to be strange or different or anything exotic at allI want to be as normal and
    ordinary as the next fellow, no games at allI’m just a teacher, and that’s all I want to beBut in the
    present circumstances, I have to do things my
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    2:49 am
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    forbidding white-space, surely the best I'd be
    able to do would be a series of marching stick
    figures: Ten little Indians went out to dine, One
    drowned her baby self, Then there were nineNine
    little Indians, Stayed up very late -
    That was spookyI got up from my chair, and fast
    Suddenly I didn't want to be here, not in Little
    Pink, not in Big Pink, not on Duma Key, not in my
    stupid pointless limping cartier watch santos retired retarded life
    How many lies was I telling? That I was an artist?
    RidiculousKamen could cry STUNNED and YOU MUST
    NOT STOP in his patented e-mail capitals, but
    Kamen specialized in tricking the victims of
    terrible accidents into believing the pallid
    imitations of life they were living were as good
    as the real thingWhen it came to positive
    203
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    cried YOU MUST NOT STOPWas I telling myself I
    was psychic? Possessed of a phantom arm capable of
    seeing into the unknown? That wasn't ridiculous,
    it was pitiful and insane
    There was a 7-Eleven in NokomisI decided I would
    try my driving skills, pick up a couple of sixpacks,
    and get drunkThings might look better
    tomorrow, through the haze of a hangoverI did
    not see how they could look much worseI reached
    for my crutch and my foot - my left old omega one, my good
    foot, for Christ's sake - caught under my chairMy right leg wasn't strong enough to
    hold me up and I fell full-length, reaching out
    with my right arm to break my fall
    Just instinct, of courseexcept it did break my
    fallI didn't see it - my eyes were
    squeezed shut, the way you squeeze them when you
    know you're going to take one for the team - but
    if I hadn't broken my fall, I would almost
    certainly have done myself significant damage,
    204
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    or even broken it
    I lay there a moment, confirming to myself that I
    was still alive, then got to my knees, my hip
    aching fiercely, holding my throbbing right arm up
    in front of my eyesThere was no arm thereI set
    my chair up on its legs, leaned on it with my left
    forearmthen darted my head forward and bit my
    right arm
    I felt the crescents of my teeth sink in just
    below the elbowI felt the flesh of my forearm
    against my tiffany replica jewelry li
    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    2:50 am
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