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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:31 am
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    A hundred yards away, he could see the stretcher detail straggling back toward the hollow, the poles they had cut balanced on their shouldersHe restrained himself from calling out to them
    Brown watched their approach dourlyIn a half hour he would be setting out with his litter-bearers, and they would toil a mile or more, perhaps, and then bivouac for the night, alone in this wilderness with only a wounded man for companyHe wondered if he knew the way back, felt completely unsure of himselfWhat if the Japs sent out patrols? Brown felt bitterThere was no way out of itIt seemed like a plot against them allThey were betrayed, that's allHe could not have said who betrayed them, but the idea fed his bitterness, was fragilely pleasant

    In the grove while they were cutting the stretcher poles, Roth found a birdIt was a tiny thing, smaller than a sparrow, with soft dun-colored feathers and a crippled wing, and it hopped about slowly, chirping piteously, as if very tired"Oh, look at that," Roth said
    "What?" Minetta asked Roth dropped his machete and approached it warily, clucking with his tongueThe bird made a little beeping sound, ducking its head to one side like a shy girl"Ah, look at that, it's hurt," Roth saidHe extended his hand, and when the bird didn't move, he grasped it"Aw, what's the matter," he said to it softly, lisping a little as if talking to an infant or a dogThe bird strained in his hand, tried to flutter away, and then subsided, its tiny eyes examining his fingers fearfully
    "Hey, let's see it," Polack demanded
    "Leave it alone, it's frightened," Roth whinedHe turned away to hide it from the others, holding it a few inches from his faceHe made little kissing sounds"What's the matter, baby?"
    "Aaah, for Christ's sake," Minetta muttered
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    When the meeting is over, Gallagher drifts into a barThe dry throat, the painful tension in his chestAs he drinks, his rage diffuses and he grows sullen and bitter
    They're always cheatin' ya at the last minute, he says to the man beside himThey had come out of the meeting together
    That's all it is, chanel watch j12 it's a goddam mother-fuggin plot, and they ain't gonna break me, I'm gonna get out on top
    On the way home he slips in a puddle, and wets his pant leg up to his hipFug you, he roars at the pavementPlot, always fuggin a guy, well, you ain't gonna get me
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    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    2:31 am
    @@@@@ "Just pick the one that shows the darning
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    "Just pick the one that shows the darning least Eulalie dropped an
    armload of rattling leaves"I didn't hear you come in, Scarlett Pauline nodded coldly
    She had forgiven Scarlett for her insults, as a good Christian woman
    should, but in all likelihood she'd never forget them"There are no
    darns in Mere's linens, Scarlett," she said"They're all in perfect
    condition Scarlett looked at the stacks that covered the long table
    and remembered the worn, mended cloths that her aunts had in
    Charles- I
    tonIf it was up to her, she'd pack up all this stuff and take it
    back to Charleston when they left on Saturday
    Grandfather wouldn't miss it, and the aunts could use itI'll never
    in my life be as afraid of anybody as they are of that old tyrantBut
    if I said what I think, Aunt Eulalie would start to sniffle, and Aunt
    Pauline would lecture me for an hour about duty to my elders"I have
    to go buy a present for him," she said aloud
    "Is there any shopping you want me to do for you?" And don't dare,
    she
    said silently, offer to come with meI've got to go to the convent to
    see the Mother SuperiorShe can't still be in retreat
    If I have to, I'll stand by the gate and grab her when she comes out
    I'm almighty tired of being turned awayThey were much too busy,
    her
    aunts said, to go shopping, and they were astonished that Scarlett had
    not yet selected and wrapped a gift for her grandfatherScarlett left
    before they could describe the extent of their busyness and depth of
    their astonishment"Old loolas," she said under her breathShe
    wasn't at all sure what the Irish phrase meant, but the sound of it was
    enough to make her smileThe trees in the square looked somehow
    thicker, the grass greener than the day beforeThe sun was warmer,
    tooScarlett felt the quickened optimism that always accompanied the
    first hint of spring
    2:15 am
    @@@@@"I bought some this morning," Scarlett
    @@@@@"I
    bought some this morning," Scarlett said, with ice in her voice"When
    your mother and I went shopping," she added, emphasizing each
    word"I
    don't see why you don't buy her a carriage since you love her so
    much
    She got very tired with all the walking
    "You don't understand CharlestonThat's why you'll be miserable here
    in no time at allI could buy her this house, because ours was
    destroyed by the Yankees and everyone she knows still has a house
    just
    as grandI can even furnish it more comfortably than her friends' are
    furnished because every piece in it is something that the Yankees
    looted or is a duplicate of what she once had, and her friends still
    have many of their thingsBut I cannot set her apart from her friends
    by buying her luxuries that they cannot afford
    "Sally Brewton has a carriage
    "Sally Brewton is unlike anyone elseSally is
    an original
    Charleston has respect-even fondness-for eccentricityBut no
    tolerance for ostentationAnd you, my dear Scarlett, have never been
    able to resist ostentation
    "I hope you're enjoying insulting me, Rhett Butler!" Rhett laughed
    "As
    a matter of fact, I amNow you can start making one of those dresses
    decent to wear for this eveningI'm going to go drive the committee
    homeSally shouldn't do it in this stormAfter he was gone,
    Scarlett put on Rhett's dressing gownIt was warmer than hers, and
    he
    was right-it had gotten much colder, and she was shiveringShe
    pulled
    the collar of the robe up around her ears and went to sit in the chair
    where he had satHis presence was still in the room for her, and she
    wrapped herself in itHer fingers stroked the soft foulard that
    enveloped her-strange to think of Rhett choosing such a light, almost
    fragile-feeling wrapper when he was so solid and strong hims
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    2:31 am
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    “Both, I guessIt didn’t matter, I didn’t use it
    “But you wanted to, didn’t you?”
    “Again, I’m not sureIf you and the children were threatened, of course I would, but I don’t
    think I’d fire indiscriminately
    “Are you sure, David? Would the appearance of danger to us make you pick up a gun and shoot
    at shadows?”
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    around, violently propelling Marie off her feet, sending her out of the line of fire as he crouched,
    his weapon in his hand
    “Please don’t kill me, David,” said Morris Panov, the beam of his flashlight illuminating the
    area“It simply wouldn’t make sense
    “Jesus, Mo!” cried Webb
    “Trying to find you, that’s allWould you please help Marie?”
    Webb did so, pulling his wife to her feet, both half blinded by the flashlight“My God, you’re
    the mole!” cried Jason Bourne, gucci backpack raising his weapon“You knew every move I was making!”
    “I’m what?” roared the psychiatrist, throwing down his flashlight“If you believe that, gun me
    down, you son of a bitch!”
    “I don’t know, MoI don’t know anything anymore !” David’s head arched back in pain
    “Then cry your heart out, you bastard! Cry like you’ve never cried before! Jason Bourne is
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    Webb fell to his knees, the tears welling in his eyes, trembling and trying not to make a sound
    “We’re going to be okay, Mo,” said Marie, kneeling beside her husband, holding him
    “I know that,” acknowledged Panov, nodding in the glow of the grounded flashlight“Two lives
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    447
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    267
    What aggressive procedures? screamed Bourne into the silent void of his mindInsanity! Who? Why?
    The door at the top of the brick steps on the left side of the building opened firstA petrified
    man, short, obese, in an undershirt, his trousers held up by suspenders, cautiously walked out into
    the flood of the searchlight, spreading his hands in front of his face and turning his head away from
    the blinding beam“What is it, messieurs?” he cried, his voice tremulous“I am merely a baker—a
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    police?”
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    reasoning is that? We live among fascists?”
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    hour for the Jackal!
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    disrespectfully carry out our orders
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    2:31 am
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    "What do you know about Tom's state of mind?"
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    2:31 am
    @@@@@It was a horrible game for her After the
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    After the class, her friend came by and told me that she was upsetShe had come to the class to learn about investing and did not like the idea that it took so long to play a silly game
    Her friend attempted to tell her to look within herself to see if the game "reflected" on herself in any wayWith that suggestion, the woman demanded her money backShe said that the very idea that a game could be a reflection of her was ridiculousHer money was promptly refunded and she left
    Since 1984, I have made millions simply by doing what the school system does notIn school, most teachers lectureI hated lectures as a student; I was soon bored and my mind would drift
    In 1984,I began teaching via games and simulationsI always encouraged adult students to look at games as reflecting back to what they know, and what they needed to learnMost importantly, a game reflects back on one's behaviorIt's an instant feedback system Instead of the teacher lecturing you, the game is feeding back a personalized lecture, custom made just for you
    The friend of the woman who left later called to give me an updateShe said her friend was fine and had calmed down In her cooling-off period, she could see some slight relationship between the game and her life
    Although she and her husband did not own a boat, they did own
    everything else imaginable She was angry after their divorce, both because he had run off with a younger woman and because after twenty years of marriage, they had accumulated little in the way of assetsThere was virtually nothing for them to splitTheir twenty years of married life had been incredible fun, but all they had accumulated was a ton of doodads
    She realized that her anger at doing the numbers-the income statement and balance sheet-came from her embarrassment of not understanding themShe had believed that finances were the man's jobShe maintained the house and did the entertaining, and he handled the finances
    2:15 am
    @@@@@It was the middle of the day, and the
    @@@@@It was the middle of the day, and the sun
    was shining on WichitaIt was not as hot as the Arizona desert, but it was more humidThe air
    swarmed with tiny flying bugs
    Jared drove toward the highway out of town, carefully keeping below the speed limitThis
    continued to irritate him
    “Getting tired of shopping yet, Wanda?” Ian asked me
    “You always say thatIsn't thereanything you mind?”
    “I mind… being away from JamieAnd I mind being outside, a little bitDuring the day
    especiallyIt's like the opposite of claustrophobiaEverything is too openDoes that bother you,
    too?”
    “SometimesWe don't go out during the day much
    “At least she gets to stretch her legs,” Kyle muttered“I don't know why you want to hearher
    complain
    “Because it's so uncommonWhich makes it a nice change from listening toyou complainOnce Ian and Kyle got started, they usually went on for a while
    “Oklahoma City next?” I asked Jared
    “And a few small towns on the way, if you're up for it,” he answered, eyes on the road
    Jared rarely lost his focus when on a raidHe didn't relax into relieved banter the way Ian and
    Kyle did every time I completed another mission successfullyIt made me smile when they used
    that word–missionhat sounded so formidable
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    2:31 am
    @@@@@ I'm playing with wordsAll that he had
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    I'm playing with wordsAll that he had written seemed meaningless, a conceitHe was filled with a powerful spasm of distaste for what he had written, and slowly with a heavy pressure of his pencil he drew a line through each of his sentencesIn the middle of the page his pencil broke, and he flung it down and strode outside the tent, breathing a little quickly
    It had all been too pat, too simpleThere was order but he could not reduce it to the form of a single curve
    He stared about the silent bivouac, looked up at the stars of the Pacific sky, heard the rustle of the coconut treesAlone, he felt his senses expanding again, lost the intimate knowledge of the size of his bodyA deep boundless ambition leaped in him again, and if his habits had not been so deep he might have lifted his arms to the skyNot since he had been a young man had he hungered so for knowledgeIt was all there if only he could grasp it
    An artillery piece fired, shattering the loom of the night
    Cummings listened to its echoes and shuddered



    7

    IN THE TWILIGHT the cliffs of Mount Anaka were glowing with reds and golds, reflecting back into the hills and fields at the baseIn their bivouac what was left of the platoon was settling for the nightThe four extra men who had gone along with Brown's detail for the first hour had returned now and were adjusting their blanketsGallagher was on guard in the knoll that overlooked the hollow; the rest of the men were eating their ration or clumping a few yards into the grass to relieve themselves
    Wyman was brushing his teeth very carefully, sprinkling a few drops of water from his canteen onto the bristles and then massaging his gums thoughtfully
    "Hey, Wyman," Polack called, "turn on the radio for me, will ya?"
    "Naah, I'm tired of listening to it," Minetta said"Listen, you guys, I'm still civilized," he piped"If I want to brush my teeth I can
    "Not even his best friends will tell him," Minetta wisecracked
    "Aaah, go fug yourself, I'm sick of ya
    Croft stirred in his blankets, propped himself on an elbow"Listen, you men, you can just shu
    2:15 am
    @@@@@ Deep in his bowels something had reacted
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    Deep in his bowels something had reacted and a twinge of diarrhea made him perspireHe reached over, picked up his field telephone, cranked it once, and murmured into the receiver, "Find Hearn and send him over to my tent Then he rubbed vigorously at the flesh on the left side of his face, which seemed to have grown numb His rage was just beginning to function; a furious uncontrolled anger tightened his mouth, set his heart beating over-rapidly, and tingled in the tips of his fingersHe walked over to his refrigerator and poured himself a glass of water, which he drank with short distraught swallowsFor an instant, deep beneath the currents of his rage, there was another feeling, an odd compound of disgust and fear perhaps, and something else, a curious troubled excitement, a momentary submission as if he had been a young girl undressing before the eyes of a roomful of strange menBut his rage choked this off, expanded inside him until it clotted all the conduits of his emotion, and left him trembling with an unendurable wrathIf he had been holding an animal in his hands at that instant he would have strangled it
    And with it was another sort of fear, overt and aware; what Hearn had done was equivalent to a soldier's laying hands on his personTo Cummings it was a symbol of the independence of his troops, their resistance to himThe fear, the respect his soldiers held for him now was a rational one, an admission of his power to punish them, and that was not enoughThe other kind of fear was lacking, the unreasoning one in which his powers were immense and it was effectively a variety of sacrilege to thwart himThe cigarette butt on the floor was a threat, a denial of him, as fully as Lanning's defection, or a Japanese attack on his lines, and he had to meet it directly and ruthlesslyThe longer you tarried with resistance the greater it becameIt had to be destroyed
    "You want to see me, sir?" It was Hearn entering his tent
    Cummings turned around slowly, and looked at him"Yes, sit down, I want to talk to you His voice had been cold and evenWith Hearn before him, his anger became incisive, controllable, an instrument of his actionsWith great deliberation he lit a cigarette, his hands steady now, and exhaled it leisurely"It's been a long time since we've had a little talk, Robert
    "Yes, sir, it has been
    Not since the night of the chess gameAnd they were both aware of i
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    2:31 am
    @@@@@And they always got itAfter that the
    @@@@@And they always got itAfter that
    the evening evolved by itselfOften the whole family ended up at
    Matt's house, because he had five young children asleep upstairs
    Maureen and Jamie could leave Jacky and Helen in Mary Kate's care,
    and
    Patricia could bring her sleeping two-year-old and three-year-old
    without waking themBefore too long the music would beginLater,
    when Colum came in, he would be the leaderThe first time Scarlett
    saw the bodhran, she thought it was an outsize tambourineThe
    metal-framed circle of stretched leather was 10 more than two feet
    across, but it was shallow, like a tambourine, and 1
    Gerald was holding it in his hand, like a tambourineThen he sat
    down,
    braced it on his knee and tapped on it with a wooden stick that he held
    in the middle, rocking it to strike one end, then the other, against
    the skin, and she saw that it was really a drumNot much of a drum,
    she thoughtUntil Colum picked it up
    His left hand spread against the underside of the taut leather as if
    caressing it, and his right wrist was suddenly as fluid as waterHis
    arm moved from top to bottom to top to center of the drum while
    his right hand made a curious, careless-looking motion that pounded
    the
    stick with a steady, blood-stirring rhythmThe tone and volume
    differed, but the hypnotic, demanding beat never varied, as fiddle,
    then whistle, then concertina joined inMaureen held the bones
    lifeless in her hand, too caught up in the music to remember them
    Scarlett gave herself over to the drumbeatIt made her laugh, it
    made
    her cry, it made her dance as she'd never dreamed she could dance
    It
    was only when Colum laid the bodhran down on the floor beside him
    and
    demanded a drink, saying "I've drummed myself dry," that she saw
    that
    everyone else was as transported as she wasShe looked at the
    short,
    smiling pug-nosed figure with a shiver of awestruck wonderThis man
    was not like other men"Scarlett darling, you understand oysters
    better than I do," said Maureen when they entered the City Market
    "Will you find us the best of them? I want to make a grand oyster
    stew
    for Colum's tea todayp 'For tea? Oyster stew's rich enough for a
    meal
    "And isn't that the reason for it? He's speaking at a meeting tonight,
    and he'll need the strength of it
    "What kind of meeting, Maureen?
    Will we all go?"
    "It's at the Jasper Greens, the American Irish volunteer soldiering
    group, so there'll be no wo
    2:15 am
    @@@@@"You're a barbarian, Scarlett," Rhett said
    @@@@@"You're a barbarian, Scarlett,"
    Rhett
    said heavily"Go up to the house and tell Pansy to get readyI'll
    meet you at the dock What had she done wrong? One minute he
    was
    full of life and excitement, then all of a sudden it was gone and he
    was cold, a strangerShe'd never understand him if she lived to be a
    hundredShe strode rapidly up the green terraces, blind now to their
    beauty, and into the houseThe boat moored to the landing was very
    different from the scabrous barge that had brought Scarlett and Pansy
    to the plantationIt was a sleek brown-painted sloop with bright
    brass fittings and gilt scroll trimBeyond it in the river was
    another boat, one that she'd much prefer, Scarlett thought angrilyIt
    was five times the size of the sloop and it had two decks with white
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    soon
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    thing
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    284
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    viii
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