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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    7:23 pm
    @@@@@ How to Draw a Picture (XII) 1120 Know
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    How to Draw a Picture (XII)
    1120
    Know when you're finished, and when you are, put
    your pencil or your paintbrush downAll the rest
    is only life
    February 2006-June 2007
    Afterthoughts
    I have taken liberties with the geography of
    Florida's west coast, and with its history, as
    wellAlthough Dave Davis was real, and did indeed
    disappear, he is used here fictionally
    And no one in Florida calls out-of-season storms
    "Alices" except me
    I want to thank my wife, the novelist Tabitha King,
    who read this book in an early draft and suggested
    valuable changes; the Sweet Owen cookie-tin was
    only one of them
    I want to thank Russ Dorr, my old medical friend,
    who patiently explained both Broca's area and the
    physics of contracoup injuries
    I also want to thank Chuck Verrill, who edited the
    book with his usual combination of gentleness and
    ruthlessness
    1121
    Teddy Rosenbaum, my friend and copy-editor: muchas
    gracias
    And you, my old friend Constant Reader; always youA Word from the Publisher to the ReaderTwenty-seven years ago I was fortunate enough to be associated with the publication of John Dos Passos' Three SoldiersIn no year since have I felt the same surge of excitement for a war novel -- not until the manuscript of Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead was readied for publication
    There is no direct parallel between the two booksThe world has changed and toughened since Dos Passos wroteThe Naked and the Dead is a tougher book, one that reflects the variables that time and change have introducedBut, like its distinguished predecessor, Norman Mailer's book is essentially the story of men themselves rather than of their sometimes purposeless fightingThese men who tear their hearts out trying to capture an island from the Japanese are the product of the years they have livedThey have been formed by their wives, their sweethearts, their farms, their jobs, their collegesTo each, war has been an activating agent
    I believe you will never forget these men -- frightened men, sometimes obscene, humorous, sick, scabrous, full of yearning for home as it was, or home as it seems in memoryThey are men in war, but like most of us, they do not know where they are going; they know only their own past
    Because I believe The Naked and the Dead is a great novel I can say that if you have read Thomas Boyd's Through the Wheat, Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Hemingway's Farewell to Arms, or Three Soldiers, you cannot afford to pass by this astonishing performance by a young man who at twenty-five knows more about the core of man than many a writer of twice his years
    Rinehart & Company, Inc
    New York Toronto



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    Betty Co-ed, by Paul Fogarty and Rudy Vall
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    7:27 pm
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    She had all the heroism of principle, and was determined to do
    her duty; but having also many of the feelings of youth and nature,
    let her not be much wondered at, if, after making all these good
    resolutions on the side of self-government, she seized the scrap of
    paper on which Edmund had begun writing to her, as a treasure
    beyond all her hopes, and reading with the tenderest emotion these
    words, “My very dear Fanny, you must do me the favour to accept”
    locked it up with the chain, as the dearest part of the giftIt was the
    only thing approaching to a letter which she had ever received from
    him; she might never receive another; it was impossible that she
    ever should receive another so perfectly gratifying in the occasion
    and the styleTwo lines more prized had never fallen from the pen
    230
    Mansfield Park
    of the most distinguished author—never more completely blessed
    the researches of the fondest biographerThe enthusiasm of a woman’s
    love is even beyond the biographer’sTo her, the handwriting itself,
    independent of anything it may convey, is a blessednessNever dior handbags were
    such characters cut by any other human being as Edmund’s commonest
    handwriting gave! This specimen, written in haste as it was,
    had not a fault; and there was a felicity in the flow of the first four
    words, in the arrangement of “My very dear Fanny,” which she could
    have looked at for ever
    Having regulated her thoughts and comforted her feelings by this
    happy mixture of reason and weakness, she was able in due time to
    go down and resume her usual employments near her aunt Bertram,
    and pay her the usual observances without any apparent want of
    spirits
    Thursday, predestined to hope and enjoyment, came; and opened
    with more kindness to Fanny than such self-willed, unmanageable
    days often volunteer, for soon after breakfast a very friendly note
    was brought from MrCrawford to William, stating that as he found
    himself obliged to go to London on the morrow for a few days, he
    could not help trying to procure a companion; and therefore hoped
    that if William could make up his mind to leave Mansfield half a
    day earlier than had been proposed, he would accept a place gucci mens watch in his
    carriageCrawford meant to be in town by his uncle’s
    accustomary late dinner-hour, and William was invited to dine with
    him at the Admiral’sThe proposal was a very pleasant one to
    William himself, who enjoyed the idea of travelling post with four
    horses, and such a good-humoured, agreeable friend; and, in likening
    it to going up with despatches, was saying at once everything
    in favour of its happiness and dignity which his imagination
    could suggest; and Fanny, from a different motive, was exceedingly
    pleased; for the original plan was that William should go up
    by the mail from Northampton the following night, which would
    not have allowed him an hour’s rest before he must have got into a
    Portsmouth coach; and though this offer of MrCrawford’s would
    rob her of many hours of his company, she was too happy in having
    William spared from the fatigue of such a journey, to think of
    anything elseSir Thomas approved of it for another reasonHis
    231
    Jane Austen
    nephew’s introduction to Admiral Crawford might be of service
    The Admiral, he believed, had interestUpon omega planet ocean the whole, it was a
    very joyous noteFanny’s spirits lived on it half the morning, deriving
    some accession of pleasure from its writer being himself to
    go away
    As for the ball, so near at hand, she had too many agitations and
    fears to have half the enjoyment in anticipation which she ought to
    have had, or must have been supposed to have by the many young
    ladies looking forward to the same event in situations more at ease,
    but under circumstances of less novelty, less interest, less peculiar
    gratification, than would be attributed to herMiss Price, known
    only by name to half the people invited, was now to make her first
    appearance, and must be regarded as the queen of the eveningWho
    could be happier than Miss Price? But Miss Price had not been
    brought up to the trade of coming out; and had she known in what
    light this ball was, in general, considered respecting her, it would
    very much have lessened her comfort by increasing the fears she
    already had of doing wrong and being looked atTo dance without
    much observation or any extraordinary fatigue, to have men omega watch strength
    and partners for about half the evening, to dance a little with
    Edmund, and not a great deal with MrCrawford, to see William
    enjoy himself, and be able to keep away from her aunt Norris, was
    the height of her ambition, and seemed to comprehend her greatest
    possibility of happinessAs these were the best of her hopes, they
    could not always prevail; and in the course of a long morning, spent
    principally with her two aunts, she was often under the influence of
    much less sanguine viewsWilliam, determined to make this last
    day a day of thorough enjoyment, was out snipe-shooting; Edmund,
    she had too much reason to suppose, was at the Parsonage; and left
    alone to bear the worrying of MrsNorris, who was cross because
    the housekeeper would have her own way with the supper, and whom
    she could not avoid though the housekeeper might, Fanny was worn
    down at last to think everything an evil belonging to the ball, and
    when sent off with a parting worry to dress, moved as languidly
    towards her own room, and felt as incapable of happiness as if she
    had been allowed no share in cheap rolex i
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    7:30 pm
    @@@@@Isn’t that what we were looking for? A
    @@@@@Isn’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 outIt’s more than fear, it’s panic; they’re frightened out of their mindsWe’ve
    bumbled and stumbled onto something, MrBourne, and in your rich friend Cactus’s old-time
    minstrel-show language, ‘In the focus, it could be bigger than bo’fus
    “In my considered opinion there’s, nothing bigger than the Jackal! Not for meThe rest can go
    to hell
    “I’m on your side and I’ll go to the wall shouting itI just wanted you to know my thoughts
    Except for a brief and pretty rotten interlude, we never kept anything from each other, David
    “I prefer Jason these days
    “Yes, I know,” interrupted Conklin“I hate it but I understand
    “Do you?”
    “Yes,” said Alex softly, nodding as he closed his eyes“I’d do anything to change it but I can’tIn that serpentine mind of yours—Cactus’s description, incidentally—
    conjure up the worst scenario you can think of and shove those bastards against another wall, one
    they can’t get away from unscathed unless they follow your instructions down to the letterThose
    orders will be to stay quiet and wait for you to call and tell them who to reach and what to say
    Conklin looked over at his damaged friend with guilt and conce
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    7:31 pm
    @@@@@ She made a promise to herself not to let
    @@@@@
    She
    made a promise to herself not to let so many months slip away before
    her next visitThis was, after all, the real heart of Ballyhara,
    where it had begunThe blackthorn was already blooming in the
    hedges
    and it was still AprilWhat a season they were having! Scarlett
    slowed the buggy for a long sniffThere was no real need to hurry,
    the dresses would waitShe was driving into Trim for a package of
    summer clothes MrsThere were six invitations to
    June
    house parties on her deskShe wasn't sure she was ready to start
    partying so soon, but she was ready to see some grown-ups
    Cat was her heart of hearts, but Fitz was so busy running
    the big household that she never had time for a friendly cup of tea
    Colum had gone to Galway to meet StephenShe didn't know how she
    felt
    about Stephen coming to BallyharaMaybe he
    wouldn't
    be so spooky in IrelandMaybe he'd just been so strange and silent in
    Savannah because he was mixed up in the gun businessAt least that
    was over! The extra income she was getting now from the little
    houses
    in Atlanta was pleasant, too
    She must have given the Fenians a fortuneMuch better spent on
    frocks; frocks didn't hurt anyoneStephen would have all the news
    from Savannah, tooShe was longing to know how everyone was
    Maureen was just as bad about writing letters as she wasShe hadn't
    heard anything about the Savannah O'Naras in monthsOr about
    anyone
    elseIt made sense that when she'd made the decision to sell up in
    Atlanta she'd decided to put everything in America behind her and
    never
    look backStill, it would be nice to hear about Atlanta folksShe
    knew, from the profits she was making, that the little houses were
    selling, so Ashley's business must be goo
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    7:23 pm
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    than before
    “Jeb?”
    “Yeah?”
    “Am I the frog or the water?”
    He laughed“I'll leave that one for you to puzzle overSelf-examination is good for the soul
    He laughed again, louder this time, as he turned to gucci bookbag leave
    “Wait–can I ask one more?”
    “SureI'd say it's your turn anyway, after all I've asked you
    “Whyare you my friend, Jeb?”
    He pursed his lips for a second, considering his answer
    “You know I'm a curious man,” he began, and I nodded“Well, I get to watch your souls a lot,
    but I never get to talk with 'emI've had so many questions just prada messenger piling up higher and higher
    Plus, I've always thought that if a person wants to, he can get along with just about anybodyI
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    He winked top chanel at me, bowed from the waist, and walked away
    Just because I now understood Jeb's plan, it didn't make things easier when he escalated it
    He never took the gun anywhere anymoreI didn't know where it was, but I was grateful that
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    unprotected, but I decided he was actually in less danger without the gunNo one would feel
    the need to hurt him when he wasn't a threatBesides, no one came looking for me anymore
    Jeb started sending me on little errandsRun back to the kitchen for another roll, he was still
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    7:23 pm
    @@@@@"I guess I'll be taking off," he saidHe
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    "Stay around awhile," Goldstein said
    "No, I want to get some sleep before guard Roth started walking back to his tentIn the darkness, his feet draggedHe was thinking that Goldstein's friendliness did not mean very much"Just a surface part of his personalityAs he walked, his feet made soft slushing sounds through the sandListen," Polack said, "there's all kinds of ways of beating a game He extended his long pointed jaw at Steve Minetta and grinned"They ain't a way you can't figure out to get around something
    Minetta was only twenty, but his hair had receded far enough to give him a high foreheadHe had developed a thin mustache which he trimmed carefullyOnce he had been told he looked like William Powell, and he combed his hair to increase the resemblance"Naw, I don't agree with you," he said"Some raps you can't beat
    "What're you talkin' about?" Polack wanted to knowHe twisted about in his blankets, and turned to face Minetta"Listen," he said, "once in the butcher shop, I'm drawin' a fowl for this old biddy, and I try to get away with one of the two pieces of fat around the belly He paused dramatically, and Minetta laughed at the grin on Polack's big lewd mobile mouth
    "Yeah, so what?" Minetta asked
    "Well, she's watching me real close, and when I start to wrap up the fowl, she says, 'Where's the other piece of fat?' I look at her and I say, 'You don't want it, lady, it's diseasedIt'll ruin the taste of the whole chicken' She shakes her head and says, 'Never mind, young man, I want
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    7:28 pm
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    “How can you, sir? You quite astonish me; I wonder how you
    can—”
    “Do I astonish you?” said he“Do you wonder? Is there anything
    in my present entreaty that you do not understand? I will explain to
    you instantly all that makes me urge you in this manner, all that
    gives me an interest in what you look and do, and excites my present
    297
    Jane Austen
    curiosityI will not leave you to wonder long
    In spite of herself, she could not help half a smile, but she chanel silver said
    nothing
    “You shook your head at my acknowledging that I should not like
    to engage in the duties of a clergyman always for a constancyYes,
    that was the wordConstancy: I am not afraid of the wordI would
    spell it, read it, write it with anybodyI see nothing alarming in the
    wordDid you think I ought?”
    “Perhaps, sir,” said Fanny, wearied at last into speaking—”perhaps,
    sir, I thought it was a pity you did not always know yourself as
    well as you seemed to do at that moment
    Crawford, delighted to get her to speak at birkin bag hermes any rate, was determined
    to keep it up; and poor Fanny, who had hoped to silence him
    by such an extremity of reproof, found herself sadly mistaken, and
    that it was only a change from one object of curiosity and one set of
    words to anotherHe had always something to entreat the explanation
    ofThe opportunity was too fairNone such had occurred since
    his seeing her in her uncle’s room, none such might occur again
    before his leaving MansfieldLady Bertram’s being just on the other
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    “Well,” said Crawford, after a course of rapid questions and reluctant
    answers; “I am happier than I was, because I now understand
    more clearly your opinion of meYou think me unsteady: easily
    swayed by the whim of the moment, easily tempted, easily put aside
    With such an opinion, no wonder thatIt is not by
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    “What’ve you done—what are you doing?”
    “I thought I just mentioned itWe’re going to talk, Sergeant FlannaganI want to get caught up
    with some old comrades
    The frightened man backed awkwardly away from the chair“You’re the maniac they called
    Delta before you turned and went in business for yourself!” he cried in a guttural whisper“There
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    “Who were ‘they’?”
    “Some people over at LangleyThe one who did all the talking had a limp; he carried a cane
    “And ‘the others’—they told you to go back and join?”
    “About twenty-five or thirty of the old Saigon crowd
    “Command Saigon?”
    “Yeah
    “Men who worked with our replica gucci crowd, the ‘illegals’?”
    “Mostly, yeah
    “When was this?”
    “For Christ’s sake, I told you!” roared the panicked aide“Four or five years ago! I saw the
    photograph—you were dead!”
    “Only a single photograph,” interrupted Bourne quietly, staring at the master sergeant“You
    have a very good memory
    “You held a gun to my headThirty-three years, two wars and twelve combat tours, nobody ever
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    “I think I understand
    “I don’t! I don’t understand a goddamned thing! You were dead!”
    “You’ve said thatBut I’m not, am I? Or maybe I amMaybe this is the nightmare that’s been
    visited upon you after twenty years of deceit
    “What kind of crap is that? What the hell—”
    “Don’t move!”
    “I’m not!”
    Suddenly, in the distance, there was a loud prada clutch repo
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    7:31 pm
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    "Now lovely," she sighedScarlett looked at her with disgust, then
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    was
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    the
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    If
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    They'd still sell like hotcakes, but the profit would be much bigger
    She wouldn't rolex ladies watches let him buy cheaper lumber the whole reason for building
    them in the first place was to keep Ashley in businessThere were
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
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    Melanie and I thought about the likelihood of our survival and felt despair
    Ian thumped Jamie on the back–I could feel the motion reverberate through both our bodies
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    “They're just zucca fendi bag shocked, that's all I recognized Trudy's alto voice behind me“Once we get a
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    “See reason? Kyle?” someone hissed almost unintelligibly
    “We knew this was coming,” Jeb muttered“Just got to weather it
    “Maybe you womens rolex watches ought to find that gun,” Lily suggested calmly“Tonight might be a long one
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    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    7:35 pm
    @@@@@Day after day the newspaper reported more
    @@@@@Day after day the newspaper reported more disasters in
    the
    business worldThere were soup kitchens and bread lines now in
    America's big cities because thousands more people lost their jobs
    every week when companies went bankruptWhy was she risking her
    money
    now, at the worst possible time? Why had she made that fool promise
    to
    Melly? If only the cold rain would stop And the days would stop
    getting shorterShe could keep busy in the daytime, but darkness
    closed her in the empty house with only her thoughts for companions
    And she didn't want to think, because she could find no answers to
    anythingHow had she gotten into this mess? She'd never
    deliberately
    done anything to turn people against her, why were they all being so
    hateful? Why was it taking Rhett so long to come home? What could
    she
    do to make things better? There had to be something, she couldn't go
    on forever walking from room to room in the big house like a pea
    rattling around in an empty washtubShe'd be glad to have Wade and
    Ella come home to keep her company, but Suellen had written that
    they
    were all under quarantine while one child after another went through
    the long itchy torture of chicken poxShe could take up with the
    Barts and all their friends again
    It didn't matter that she'd called Mamie a sow, her skin was as thick
    as a brick wallOne reason Scarlett had enjoyed having "the dregs"
    for friends was that she could use the rough side of her tongue on
    them
    any time she liked and they'd always come crawling back for moreI
    haven't sunk to that level, thank GodI'm not going to go crawling
    back to them now that I know what low things they areIt's just that
    it gets dark so early and the nights are so long and I can't sleep like
    I oughtThings will get better when the rain stops when winter's
    over when Rhett comes home
    At last the weather turned to bright, cold, sunny days with high wisps
    of cloud in brilliant blue skiesColleton pumped the standing water
    out of the hole he'd dug, and the sharp wind dried the red Georgia clay
    to the hardness of brickHe ordered concrete then, and lumber to
    make
    the forms for casting the footings
    Scarlett plunged into a celebration of shopping for giftsIt was
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