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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    1:04 pm
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    Just as I also said that falling off my bike was part of learning to rideI remember falling off only made me more determined to learn to rideI also said that I have never met a golfer who has never lost a ballTo be a top men omega watch professional golfer, losing a ball or a tournament only inspires golfers to be better, to practice harder, to study moreThat's what makes them betterFor winners, losing inspires themFor losers, losing defeats themRockefeller, "I always tried to turn every disaster ' into an opportunity
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    6:46 am
    @@@@@It would be dangerous to keep him under his
    @@@@@It would be dangerous to keep him under his thumbThere would be further episodes, further rebellions, and it might come to a court-martial, which was always messy, always unpleasantThat time with the cigarette butt, he would have carried it through, as he would now if anything developed, but the appeal could be nasty for himThey would never override him in higher echelons, but it could be a black mark
    Hearn would have to goCummings was feeling a mingled triumph and frustrationHe could move Hearn where he wanted, and yet there was still an area of rebellion he had not been able to override completelyHe squinted his eyes against the glare of the lantern, turned it down a trifle, and then kneaded his thigh with one of his hands, realizing with annoyance it was one of Hearn's gestures
    Where should he send him? It was not terribly important; that reconnaissance platoon Dalleson had mentioned would do well enoughAnd it would keep Hearn in headquartersHe would have an idea of what was happening to HearnIn any case he could take care of that in the morningWhen he saw Dalleson about the I Company outpost, he could maneuver it so that the decision seemed to come from DallesonIt would be better that way, less apparent
    Cummings lay down again, his hands clasped under his head, staring once more at the ridgepoleAs if it were mocking him, he could see the map of Anopopei superimposed on the canvas, and he twisted over uncomfortably, feeling again the frustration and anger he had suffered when he received the message that he would probably get no Navy supportHis hopes had been too greatNow he could not divert his mind from the idea of invading Botoi BayThere might be another maneuver, there should be one, and yet his mind kept picturing the pincers of a frontal assault and an invasion from the rearHe wondered if he should chance it without naval support, but it would be a massacre, the rubber boats againHe could do it only if Botoi were undefended beach
    There was the nucleus of an idea in thatIf he could level the beach defenses first with one force, and then send in his landing craftPerhaps a small detachment could capture the beach at night, and in the morning the others could landBut that was far too ris
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    1:04 pm
    @@@@@That Croft, what a babyIt was the kind of
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    "Aw," Wyman said vaguelyFor an instant he thought of the girl who had stopped writing letters to himHe didn't even care if she was alive or dead nowWhat did it matter? He stared up at the mountain, and hoped they would turn backHad Croft said anything about it?
    As if to answer him, Croft sauntered toward them from his guard post"All right, you men, let's get movin'
    "We going back, Sergeant?" Wyman asked
    "Don't gimme any of your goddam lip, Wyman, we're gonna try the mountain A low shocked chorus, grumbling and resentful, answered him"Any one of you men got something to say about it?"
    "Why the hell don't we go back, Croft?" Red asked
    '"Cause that ain't what they sent us out to do Croft hovered about an intense rageHe would not be balked nowFor an instant he was tempted to raise his rifle and blast it at Valsen's headHe felt himself compressing his jaws"Come on, you men, you want the Japs to be waitin' for ya again?"
    Gallagher glared at him"That lootenant said we're goin' back
    "I'm in charge of this platoon now He stared at them, besting them with his eyesOne by one they stood up, hoisted their packs sullenlyThey were a little numbThis was a shock which left them passive"Aah, fug him," Croft heard one of them mutter, and he grinned to himself, lashed them with his to
    6:46 am
    @@@@@"Not a horse, please," Rhett laughed"I've
    @@@@@"Not a horse, please," Rhett laughed"I've only got
    three, and two of them are no damn good
    He settled the glass chimney on the lamp and smiled down at her
    "How about some eggs and a slice of ham?"
    "Two slices," said ScarlettShe followed him into the kitchen and sat
    on a bench by the table with her feet tucked up under the blanket
    while
    he lit a fire in the big iron stoveWhen the pine kindling was
    crackling, she stretched her feet out to the warmthRhett brought a
    half-eaten ham and bowls of butter and eggs from the pantry"The
    coffee grinder's on the table behind you," he said"The beans are in
    that canIf you'll grind some while I slice the ham, breakfast will
    be ready that much sooner
    "Why don't you grind them while I cook the eggs?"
    "Because the stove's not hot yet, Miss GreedyThere's a pan of cold
    corn bread next to the grinderThat should tide you over
    I'll do the cooking Scarlett swivelled aroundThe pan under the
    napkin had four squares of corn bread left in itShe dropped her wrap
    to reach for a pieceWhile she was chewing she put a handful of
    coffee beans into the grinderThen she alternated taking bites of
    corn bread with turning the handleWhen the corn bread was almost
    gone, she heard the sizzle as Rhett dropped ham slices into a skillet
    "That smells like heaven," she said happilyShe finished grinding the
    coffee with a spurt of rapid cranks"Where's the coffee pot?" She
    turned, saw Rhett, and began to laughHe had a dishtowel tucked
    into
    the waistband of his trousers and a long fork in one handHe waved
    the
    fork in the direction of a shelf by the doo
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    1:11 pm
    @@@@@ Did she love him?" "Her head was turned by
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    Did she love him?"
    "Her head was turned by hisuniform, that was the all of itI hope he's waiting for her when she gets home
    "Thanks be to God, hisregiment's gone back to England
    He'll bother her no more Colum's face was hard as granite
    Scarlett held her tongue"What about that list?" she asked after she
    gave up expecting Colum to speak"We'd better get back to our
    shoppingYou know, Colum, Jamie has everything you want at his
    store
    Why don't we just go there?"
    "I couldn't put him in a fix
    He'd feel bound to make me a price that would hurt him
    "Honestly, Colum, you don't have the brains of a flea about business!
    Even if Jamie sells to you at cost, it will make him look better to his
    suppliers, and he'll get a bigger discount next order She laughed at
    Colum's bewilderment"I have a store myself, I know what I'm
    saying She talked a blue streak while they walked to
    Jamie'sColum was fascinated and obviously impressed, asking
    question
    after question"Colum!" Jamie boomed when they entered the store
    "We were just wishing for youUncle James, Colum's here The old
    man came out from the storeroom with his arms full of bunting fabric
    "You're the answer to a prayer, man," he said"Which is the color
    that we want?" He spilled the fabric onto a counterIt was all green,
    but four closely related shades"That one's the prettiest,"
    Scarlett saidJamie and her uncle asked Colum to make a cho
    6:46 am
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    man,” he said
    “Bald head and all,” affirmed Alex“He’s not a fool; he’s done this before and knows he’s being
    watchedHe can’t leave for fear of missing something, and if he had a phone there’d be others
    down in the Montaigne
    “The Jackal,” said Bourne, stepping forward, then stopping, remembering Conklin’s order to
    stay away from the window
    “Now, do you gucci women watches understand?” asked Alex, addressing the question to Krupkin
    “Of course,” conceded the KGB official, smiling“It’s why you wanted an ostentatious
    limousine from our embassyAfter we leave, Carlos is told that a Soviet diplomatic vehicle was
    sent to pick us up, and for what other reason would we be here but to interrogate Madame Lavier?
    Naturally, in my well-advertised presence was a tall man who might or might not be Jason Bourne,
    and gucci hobo handbag another shorter individual with a disabled leg—thus confirming that it was Jason Bourne
    Our unholy alliance is therefore established and observed, and again, naturally, during our harsh
    questioning of Madame Lavier, tempers flared and references were made to the Jackal’s informer
    in Dzerzhinsky Square
    “Which only I’d known about through my dealing with Santos at Le Coeur du Soldat,” said
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    men—to back up the information she deliversI’ve got to say it, Saint Alex, that serpentine brain
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    “I hear a professor I once knewI thought he’d left us
    “Only for a while, I hope
    “Well done, AlekseiYou still have the touch; you may remain abstemious if you must, much as
    it pains meIt’s always the nuances, isn’t it?”
    “Not always by any means,” disagreed black chanel bag Conklin simply, shaking his head“Most of the time it’s
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    told she was still trusted, but she wasn’t, not completelySo an old man was dispatched to watch
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    1:14 pm
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    that the Seeker would be ahead, waiting impatiently, rather than following behind, a stop would
    be a nice delay
    I found myself looking in the rearview mirror often, searching for a sign of pursuitI was
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    Seeker's taunt bother me; she clearly didn't have the temperament to go anywhere slowly
    Still… I continued to watch for her
    I'd been west to the ocean, north and south up and down the pretty California coastline, but I'd
    never been east for any distance at allCivilization fell behind rolex watches women me quickly, and I was soon
    surrounded by the blank hills and rocks that were the precursors to the empty desert wastelands
    It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered meI should not have found
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    harmonyWe were all the same: peaceful, friendly, honestWhy should I feel better away from
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    I searched for her but found her remote, dreaming in the back of my head
    This was the best it had been since she'd started talking again
    The miles passed quicklyThe dark, rough rocks and the dusty plains covered in scrub flew by
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    the desert was so much more colorful in Melanie's memories, so much more compellingI let my
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    6:53 am
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    I knew where they had come fromThey had crawled
    out of the shells
    They started up the stairs toward me, hand in hand
    Thunder exploded a mile overheadI thought, I am not seeing
    this
    "I can do this," one of the girls saidShe spoke
    in the voice of the shells
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    "It was red," the other girl saidShe spoke in
    the voice of the shellsThey were halfway up now
    Their heads were little more than skulls with wet
    hair draggling down the sides
    "Sit in the char," they said together, like girls
    chanting a skip-rope rhymebut they spoke in
    the voice of the shells
    They reached up for me with terrible fishbelly
    fingers
    I fainted at the head of the stairs
    xx
    The telephone was ringingThat was my Telephone
    Winter
    I opened my eyes and groped for the bedside lamp,
    wanting light right away because I'd just had the
    worst nightmare of my lifeInstead of finding the
    lamp, my fingers struck a wallAt the moment they
    did, I became aware that my head was cocked at a
    strange, painful angle against that same wall
    Thunder rumbled - but faint and sullen; it was
    going-away thunder now - and that was enough to
    bring everything back with painful, frightening
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    clarityI
    had fainted because -
    My eyes flew openMy ass was on the landing, my
    legs trailing down the stairsI thought of the
    two drowned girls - no, it was more, it was an
    instant of total, brilliant recall - and shot to
    my feet without feeling my bad hip at allMy
    concentration was fixed entirely on the three
    light-switches at the head of the stairs, but even
    as my fingers found them I thought: Won't work,
    the storm will have knocked out the pow
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    1:03 pm
    @@@@@ "You're a little late for that, bitch,"
    @@@@@
    "You're a little late for that, bitch," I
    whispered
    So why did I still smell gas?
    The paintings - especially the most dangerous ones,
    the Girl and Ship series - were safely under lock
    and key, and off-island, just as Elizabeth had
    wishedAccording to Pam, nobody in our circle of
    family and friends had taken sketches except for
    Bozie, Tom, and Xander KamenIt was too late for
    Tom and Kamen, and I'd have given a great deal to
    change that, but Bozie had promised to burn his,
    so that was all rightEven Jack was covered,
    because he'd owned up to his little act of
    thieveryIt had been smart of Wireman to ask him,
    I thoughtI was only surprised he hadn't asked if
    I'd given Jack some artwork myse -
    My breath turned to glass in my throatNow I knew
    what I'd forgottenNow, in this deep crease of
    the night with the wind roaring outsideI'd been
    883
    so fixated on the goddam show that I'd never
    thought much about who I might have given work to
    before the show
    Can I have it?
    My memory, still apt to be so balky, sometimes
    surprised me with bursts of Technicolor brillianceI saw Ilse standing barefoot
    in Little Pink, dressed in shorts and a shell top
    She was standing by my easelI had to ask her to
    move so I could see the picture she was so taken
    withThe picture I didn't even remember doing
    Can I have it?
    When she stood aside, I saw a little girl in a
    tennis dressHer back was turned, but she was the
    focus of the pictureThe red hair marked her as
    Reba, my little love, that girlfriend from my
    other lifeYet she was also Ilse - Rowboat Ilse -
    and Elizabeth's big sister Adriana as well, for
    that was Adie's tennis dress, the one with the
    fine blue loops along the hem(I couldn't know
    this, but I did; it was news that had come
    whispering up from Elizabeth's pictures - pictures
    done when she was still known as Libbit
    Can I have it? This is the one I want
    884
    Or the one something wanted her to want
    I tried Ilse, Pam had saidI wasn't sure I'd
    reach her, but she just got in
    All around the doll-girl's feet were tennis ball
    6:44 am
    @@@@@ Take care of them for me I would have done
    @@@@@
    Take care of them for me
    I would have done that anywayI've got a feeling he might not like me so much
    Even if he won't let you
    I'll do whatever I can for him, Wanda
    Ian paused in the hall outside the red and gray doors to his roomHe raised his eyebrows, and I
    noddedLet him think I was still hiding from Jamie
    Ian slid the red door aside, and I went straight to the mattress on the rightI balled up there,
    knotting my shaking hands in front of my hammering heart, trying to hide them behind my
    knees
    Ian curled around me, holding me close to his chestThis would have been fine–I knew that he
    would end up sprawled out in all directions when he was really asleep–except that he could feel
    my trembling
    “It's going to be fine, WandaI know we'll find a solution
    “I truly love you, Ian It was the only way I could tell him goodbyeThe only way he would
    acceptI knew he would remember later and understand“With my whole soul, I love you
    “I truly love you, too, my Wanderer
    He nuzzled his face against mine until he found my lips, then he kissed me, slow and gentle, the
    flow of molten rock swelling languidly in the dark at the center of the earth, until my shaking
    slowedIt will keep for the night
    I nodded, moving my face against his, and sighedI didn't have to wait longI stared at the ceiling–the stars had moved above
    the cracks her
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    1:03 pm
    @@@@@ “Dear mama, only think, my cousin cannot
    @@@@@
    “Dear mama, only think, my cousin cannot put the map of Europe
    together—or my cousin cannot tell the principal rivers in Russia—
    or, she never heard of Asia Minor—or she does not know the difference
    between water-colours and crayons!—How strange!—Did you
    ever hear anything so stupid?”
    “My dear,” their considerate aunt would reply, “it is very bad, but
    you must not expect everybody to be as forward and quick at learning
    as yourself
    “But, aunt, she is really so very ignorant!—Do you know, we asked
    her last night which way she would go to get to Ireland; and she
    said, she should cross to the Isle of WightShe thinks of nothing
    but the Isle of Wight, and she calls it the Island, as if there were no
    other island in the worldI am sure I should have been ashamed of
    myself, if I had not known better long before I was so old as she is
    I cannot remember the time when I did not know a great deal that
    she has not the least notion of yetHow long ago it is, aunt, since
    we used to repeat the chronological order of the kings of England,
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    with the dates of their accession, and most of the principal events of
    their reigns!”
    “Yes,” added the other; “and of the Roman emperors as low as
    Severus; besides a great deal of the heathen mythology, and all the
    metals, semi-metals, planets, and distinguished philosophers
    “Very true indeed, my dears, but you are blessed with wonderful
    memories, and your poor cousin has probably none at allThere is a
    vast deal of difference in memories, as well as in everything else, and
    therefore you must make allowance for your cousin, and pity her
    deficiencyAnd remember that, if you are ever so forward and clever
    yourselves, you should always be modest; for, much as you know
    already, there is a great deal more for you to learn
    “Yes, I know there is, till I am seventeenBut I must tell you
    another thing of Fanny, so odd and so stupidDo you know, she
    says she does not want to learn either music or drawing
    “To be sure, my dear, that is very stupid indeed, and shows a great
    want of genius and emulationBut, all things considered, I do not
    know whether it is not as well that it should be so, for, though you
    know (owing to me) your papa and mama are so good as to bring
    her up with you, it is not at all necessary that she should be as
    accomplished as you are;—on the contrary, it is much more desirable
    that there should be a difference
    Such were the counsels by which MrsNorris assisted to form her
    nieces’ minds; and it is not very wonderful that, with all their promising
    talents and early information, they should be entirely deficient
    in the less common acquirements of self-knowledge, generosity and
    humilityIn everything but disposition they were admirably taught
    Sir Thomas did not know what was wanting, because, though a
    truly anxious father, he was not outwardly affectionate, and the reserve
    of his manner repressed all the flow of their spirits before him
    To the education of her daughters Lady Bertram paid not the
    smallest attentionShe had not time for such caresShe was a woman
    who spent her days in sitting, nicely dressed, on a sofa, doing some
    long piece of needlework, of little use and no beauty, thinking more
    of her pug than her children, but very indulgent to the latter when
    it did not put herself to inconvenience, guided in everything important
    by Sir Thomas, and in smaller concerns by her sisterHad she
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    possessed greater leisure for the service of her girls, she would probably
    have supposed it unnecessary, for they were under the care of a
    governess, with proper masters, and could want nothing moreAs
    for Fanny’s being stupid at learning, “she could only say it was very
    unlucky, but some people were stupid, and Fanny must take more
    pains: she did not know what else was to be done; and, except her
    being so dull, she must add she saw no harm in the poor little thing,
    and always found her very handy and quick in carrying messages,
    and fetching, what she wanted
    Fanny, with all her faults of ignorance and timidity, was fixed at
    Mansfield Park, and learning to transfer in its favour much of her
    attachment to her former home, grew up there not unhappily among
    her cousinsThere was no positive ill-nature in Maria or Julia; and
    though Fanny was often mortified by their treatment of her, she
    thought too lowly of her own claims to feel injured by i
    6:44 am
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    "Anyway there's a suburb I'd like to live in," Goldstein said, nodding his head"It's really a fine place, and nice people in it, cultured, refinedI wouldn't like my son to grow up the way I did
    Martinez nodded sagelyHe never possessed any definite convictions or ambitions, and he always felt humble when he talked to a man who had sharp complete plans"America's a good country," he said sincerelyHe had a glow of righteous patriotism for a moment; half-remembered was his image of a schoolroom and the children singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee For the first time in many years he thought of being an aviator, and felt a confused desire"I learn to read good in school," he said"The teacher thought I was smart
    "I'm sure she did," Goldstein said with conviction
    The water was less rough, and the spray had become infrequentMartinez looked about the boat, listened for a moment to the random sounds of conversation, and shrugged again
    Gallagher had come back to his cot, which was adjacent to Martinez's, and he lay down without saying anythingGoldstein was uncomfortable; he had not spoken to Gallagher for over a month"It's a wonder none of the men are seasick," Goldstein said at last"These boats aren't good for traveling
    "Roth, Wyman, they're sick," Martinez said
    Goldstein shrugged proudlyI'm used to being on boatsA friend of mine had a sailboat on Long Island, and in the summer I used to go out with him a lotI enjoyed it thoroughly He thought of the Sound and the pale dunes that surrounded
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
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