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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    8:42 am
    @@@@@The poor and middle class try to own
    @@@@@The poor and middle class try to own everything and lose it to the government or to fellow citizens who like to sue the richThey learned it from the Robin Hood storyTake from the rich, give to the poor
    It is not the purpose of this book to go into the specifics of owning a corporation But I will say that if you own any kind of legitimate assets, I would consider finding out more about the benefits and protection offered by a corporation as soon as possibleThere are many books
    written on the subject that will detail the benefits and even walk you through the steps necessary to set up a corporationOne book in particular, Incand Grow Rich provides a wonderful insight into the power of personal corporations
    Financial IQ is actually the synergy of many skills and talentsBut I would say it is the combination of the four technical skills listed above that make up basic financial intelligenceIf you aspire to great wealth, it is the combination of these skills that will greatly amplify an individual's financial intelligence

    In summary

    The Rich People With Corporations The People Who Work for Corporations
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    As part of your overall financial strategy, we strongly recommend owning your own corporation wrapped around your assets

    CHAPTER SIX
    Lesson Five:The Rich Invent Money

    Last night, I took a break from writing and watched a TV program on the history of a young man named Alexander Graham BellBell had just patented his telephone, and was having growing pains because the demand for his new invention was so strongNeeding a bigger company, he then went to the giant at that time, Western Union, and asked them if they would buy his patent and his tiny companyHe wanted $100,000 for the whole packageThe president of Western Union scoffed at him and turned him down, saying the price was ridiculousA multi-billion-dollar industry emerged, and AT&T was born
    The evening news came on right after the story of Alexander Graham Bell endedOn the news was a story of another downsizing at a local companyThe workers were angry and complained that the company ownership was unfairA terminated manager of about 45 years of age had his wife and two babies at the plant and was begging the guards to let him talk to the owners to ask if they would reconsider his terminationHe had just bought a house and was afraid of losing itThe camera focused in on his pleading for all the world to
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
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    "You shouldn't say that even in kidding Red shuddered unaccountablyThe moon was coming out, limning the slabs of the cliffs with gucci replica silverLying on his back, he could see up the great slopes of the mountain almost to its peakNothing seemed right at this momentHe could even believe it might be bad luck to say such a thing to Roth"Forget it," he said more softly
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    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    8:42 am
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    @@@@@ She was surprised to see that there was someone
    in the roomHer grandfather never had guestsThe man bowed, and
    she
    inclined her head"This is my lawyer, Mr
    Ring for Jerome, ScarlettHe'll show you to the drawing room,
    Jones
    Wait there until I send for youScarlett had hardly touched the
    bell pull before Jerome opened the door"Pull that chair up closer,
    ScarlettI have a great deal to say to you, and I don't want to
    strain my voice Scarlett was mystifiedThe old man had all but
    said "please He sounded kind of feeble, tooLord, I hope he's not
    getting ready to die on meI don't want to have to deal with Eulalie
    and Pauline at hisfuneralShe moved a chair to a spot near the head
    of the bedPierre Robillard studied her from under lowered eyelids
    "Scarlett," he said quietly when she was seated, "I am almost
    ninety-four years oldI am in good health, considering my age, but it
    is not likely in simple mathematics that I will live much longerI am
    asking you, my grandchild, to stay with me for the time I have left
    Scarlett started to speak, but the old man raised one thin hand to stop
    her"I haven't finished," he said"I do not appeal to your sense of
    family duty, even though I know that you have acted responsibly
    toward
    the needs of your aunts for many years"I am prepared to make you
    a
    fair offer, even a generous oneIf you will remain in this house as
    its chatelaine and see to my comforts and conform with my wishes,
    you
    will inherit my entire estate when I
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    8:48 am
    @@@@@They were unpleasant when they brushed the
    @@@@@They were unpleasant when they brushed the skin wrongAnd my fingers
    were so long and thin–the added length of fingernails made them look strange
    She cleared her throat after a minute“I'm guessing my intuition was right I said her name slowly“Why did you keep your human name? Did it make
    you feel… more at one? With your host, I mean?” I would have liked to know about Curt's
    choice as well, but it was such a personal questionIt would have been wrong to ask anyone
    besides Curt for the answer, even his partnerI worried that I'd already been too impolite, but
    she laughed
    “Heavens, no, WandererHaven't I told you this? HmmMaybe not, since it's not my job to
    talk, but to listenMost of the souls I speak with don't need as much encouragement as you do
    Did you know I came to Earth in one of the very first placements, before the humans had any
    idea we were here? I had human neighbors on both sidesCurt and I had to pretend to be our
    hosts for several yearsEven after we'd settled the immediate area, you never knew when a
    human might be nearSoKathy just became who I wasBesides, the translation of my former
    name was fourteen words long and did not shorten prettilyThe sunlight slanting
    through the window caught her eyes and sent their silver green reflection dancing on the wall
    For a moment, the emerald irises glowed iridescent
    I'd had no idea that this soft, cozy woman had been a part of the front lineIt took me a minute
    to process thatI stared at her, surprised and suddenly more respectfulI'd never taken
    Comforters very seriously–never had a need before nowThey were for those who struggled, for
    the weak, and it shamed me to be hereKnowing Kathy's history made me feel slightly less
    awkward with he
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    8:40 am
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    Mary wasn't like thatMary still loved it all
    She drank whiskey from a water-glass and wanted to
    know what it was like when Tinker Bell flew out of
    nowhere and tapped you on the shoulder and you
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    wrinkle-neck side of fifty, you had bag dolce gabbana suddenly
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    moonSo even though it wasn't like having a fast
    car or being handed the keys to a fully furnished
    house, I told her it wasBecause you can't tell
    anyone what it's likeYou can only talk around it
    until everyone's exhausted and it's time to go to
    sleep
    But Elizabeth had known what it was like
    It was in her drawings, then in her paintings
    It was like being given a tongue when earring chanel you had been
    muteIt was like being given
    back your memory, and a person's memory is
    everything, really
    Even from that first line - that incredibly brave
    first line meant to show where the Gulf met the
    sky - she had understood that seeing and memory
    were interchangeable, and had set out to mend
    herself
    Perse hadn't been in it
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    For the next four hours, I slipped in and out of
    Libbit's worldIt was a wonderful, replica rolex submariner frightening
    place to beSometimes I scribbled words - The
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    but mostly it was picturesPictures were the real
    language we shared
    I understood her family's quick arc from amazement
    to acceptance to boredomIt had happened partly
    because the girl was so prolific, maybe more
    because she was part of them, she was their little
    Libbit, and there's always that feeling that no
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    their boredom only made her hunger strongerShe
    looked for new ways to wow them, sought new ways
    of seeing
    And found them, God help her
    I drew birds flying upside-down, and animals
    walking on the swimming pool
    I drew a horse with a smile so big it ran off the
    sides of its faceI thought it was right around
    then that Perse had entered the pictureOnly -
    "Only Libbit didn't know it was Perse," I gucci women watch
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    8:40 am
    @@@@@The only distinction is how far away from
    @@@@@The only distinction is how far away from the inside are you? The reason you want to have rich friends who are close to the inside is because that is where the money is madeIt's made on informationYou want to hear about the next boom, get in and get out before the next bustI'm not saying do it illegally, but the sooner you know, the better your chances are for profits with minimal riskThat is what friends are forAnd that is financial intelligenceMASTER A FORMULA AND THEN LEARN A NEW ONE: The power of learning quicklyIn order to make bread, every baker follows a recipe, even if it's only held in their headThe same is true for making moneyThat's why money is often called "dough
    Most of us have heard the saying "You are what you eat I have a different slant on the same sayingI say, "You become what you study In other words, be careful what you study and learn, because your mind is so powerful that you become what you put in your headFor example, if you study cooking, you then tend to cookIf you don't want to be a cook anymore, then you need to study something else Let's say, a schoolteacherAfter studying teaching, you often become a teacherChoose what you study carefully
    When it comes to money, the masses generally have one basic formula they learned in schoolAnd that is, work for moneyThe formula I see that is predominant in the world is that every day millions of people get up and go to work, earn money, pay bills, balance checkbooks, buy some mutual funds and go back to workThat is the basic formula, or recipe
    If you're tired of what you're doing, or you're not making enough, it's simply a case of changing the formula via which you make money
    Years ago, when I was 26,1 took a weekend class called "How to Buy Real Estate Foreclosu
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    8:42 am
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    Stanley had come up beside Brown"What does he want us to do, leave him?"
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    Brown generated some rage"Goddammit, Stanley, what the hell's the matter with you?" Again Brown was temptedA deep lassitude had filled his body; he had no desire to move on"Come on, men, let's go," he bawledHe saw Ridges lying asleep a few feet away and it enraged him"Come on, Ridges, will you quit dickin'-off?"
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    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    8:42 am
    @@@@@She was carrying the wages of all the
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    ice creamShe lifted the cord from her neck, over her head, and she
    jingled
    the pouch in her hand"There's extra for your trouble, you
    ill-bred cad," she said
    Her arm was strong and her aim trueThe pouch struck the officer in
    the mouthShillings and pence scattered down the front of his tunic
    and onto the ground"Clean up the mess you've made," said Scarlett,
    "and take away that trash you brought with you!" She turned her
    back
    on the soldiers"For the love of God, Kathleen," she whispered, "get
    over in the field and stop the men before there's real trouble Later
    Scarlett confronted Old DanielSuppose she hadn't
    brought the tobacco? Suppose it hadn't come in today? She glared at
    her uncle, then burst out, "Why didn't you tell me you needed money?
    I'd have been glad to give it to you
    "The O'Haras don't take charity," said Daniel"'Charity'?
    It's not charity when it's your own family, Uncle Daniel Daniel
    looked at her with old, old eyes"What isn't earned by your own
    hands
    is charity," he said"We've heard your history, Young Scarlett
    O'HaraWhen my brother Gerald lost hiswits, why did you not call
    upon
    his brothers in Savannah? They're all your own family Scarlett's
    lips trembledShe hadn't asked or accepted help from
    anyoneShe had had to carry the burden aloneHer pride wouldn't
    permit any yielding, any weaknessAnd in the Famine?" She had to
    know"Pa would have sent you all he had
    Uncle James and Uncle Andrew
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    8:50 am
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    “I wondered why you didn't answer the question
    There was a pause while she waited for me to respond
    “So… why didn't you answer the question?”
    I turned around, not concealing the impatience on my face“Because it wasn't pertinent to the
    lesson, because Robert needs to learn some manners, and because it's no one else's business
    I swung my bag to my shoulder and headed for the doorShe stayed right beside me, rushing to
    keep up with my longer legsWe walked down the hallway in silenceIt wasn't until we were
    outside, where the afternoon sun lit the dust motes in the salty air, that she spoke again
    “Do you think you'll ever settle, Wanderer? On this planet, maybe? You seem to have an
    affinity for their… feelings
    I bridled at the implied insult in her toneI wasn't even sure how she meant to insult me, but it
    was clear that she didMelanie stirred resentfully
    “I'm not sure what you mean
    “Tell me something, WandererDo you pity them?”
    “Who?” I asked blankly“The Walking Flowers?”
    “No, the humans
    I stopped walking, and she skidded to a halt beside meWe were only a few blocks from my
    apartment, and I'd been hurrying in hopes of getting away from her, though likely as not, she'd
    invite herself inBut her question caught me off guardDo you pity them?”
    “Don't you?”
    “NoThey were quite the brutal raceThey were lucky to survive each other as long as they
    did
    “Not every one of them was bad
    “It was a predilection of their geneticsBrutality was part of their species
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    8:40 am
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    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    8:40 am
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    and none at all to herself, as she foresaw in it all the comforts
    of hurry, bustle, and importance, and derived the immediate advantage
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    115
    Jane Austen
    CHAPTER XIV
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    measurements, had suggested and removed at least two sets of difficulties,
    and having made the necessity of an enlargement of plan
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    to seekOther preparations were also in handAn enormous roll of
    green baize had arrived from Northampton, and been cut out by
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    people to be pleased, so many best characters required, and, above
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    comedy, that there did seem as little chance of a decision as anything
    pursued by youth and zeal could hold out
    On the tragic side were the Miss Bertrams, Henry Crawford, and
    MrYates; on the comic, Tom Bertram, not quite alone, because it
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    to make allies unnecessary; and, independent of this great irreconcilable
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    116
    Mansfield Park
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    with a difficulty, and on one side or the other it was a continual
    repetition of, “Oh no, that will never do! Let us have no ranting
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    Fanny looked on and listened, not unamused to observe the selfishness
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    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    73
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    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    8:42 am
    @@@@@When it comes to things like pictures, it's
    @@@@@When it comes to things like
    pictures, it's always just someone's opinion,
    isn't it? I only knew that something was going on
    for meSometimes it felt a little
    scaryMostly it felt pretty goddam wonderful
    I did most of my drawing upstairs, in the room I'd
    come to think of as Little PinkThe only view
    from there was of the Gulf and that flat horizonline,
    but I had a digital camera and I took
    pictures of other things sometimes, printed them
    out, clipped them to my easel (which Jack and I
    turned so the strong afternoon light would strike
    across the paper), and drew that stuffThere was
    no rhyme or reason to those snapshots, although
    when I told Kamen this in an e-mail, he responded
    that the unconscious mind writes poetry if it's
    left alone
    108
    I drew my mailboxI drew the stuff growing around
    Big Pink, then had Jack buy me a book - Common
    Plants of the Florida Coast - so I could put names
    to my picturesNaming seemed to help - to add
    power, somehowBy then I was on my second box of
    colored pencilsand I had a third waiting in
    the wingsThere was aloe vera; sea lavender with
    its bursts of tiny yellow flowers (each possessing
    a tiny heart of deepest violet); inkberry with its
    long spade-shaped leaves; and my favorite, sophora,
    which Common Plants of the Florida Coast also
    identified as necklace-bush, for the tiny podlike
    necklaces that grow on its branchesThere were
    shells everywhere, an eternity of shells just
    within my limited walking distanceDuma Key was
    made of shells, and soon I'd brought back dozens
    And almost every night when the sun went down, I
    drew the sunsetI knew sunsets were a cliché, and
    that's why I did themIt seemed to me that if I
    could break through that wall of been-there-donethat
    even once, I might be getting somewhereSo I
    piled up picture after picture, and none of them
    looked like muchI tried overlaying Venus Yellow
    109
    with Venus Orange again, but subsequent efforts
    didn't workThe sullen furnace-glow was always
    missingEach sunset was only a penciled piece of
    shit where the colors said I'm trying to tell you
    the horizon's on fireYou could undoubtedly have
    bought forty better ones at any sidewalk art show
    on a Saturday in Sarasota or Venice BeachI saved
    some of those drawings, but I was so disgusted
    with most of them that I threw them away
    One evening after another bunch of failures, once
    again watching the top arc of the sun disappear,
    leaving that flush of Halloween color trailing
    behind, I thought: It was the shipThat was what
    gave my first one a little sip of magic
    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    8:42 am
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    CHAPTER 39
    Worried
    Perfect,I grumbled to myself
    Ian was coming to join me for lunch, a big smile glued into place on his faceTrying to cheer
    me up… again
    I think you're overdoing the sarcasm lately,Melanie told me
    I'll keep that in mind
    I hadn't heard from her much in the past weekNeither of us was good company right nowIt
    was better if we avoided social interaction, even with each other
    “Hey, Wanda,” Ian greeted me, hopping up onto the counter beside meHe had a bowl of
    tomato soup in one hand, still steamingMine was beside me, cooled and half fullI was toying
    with a piece of roll, ripping it into tiny pieces
    I didn't answer him He put his hand on my kneeMel's angry reaction was lethargicShe was too
    used to this kind of thing to really work up a good fit anymore“They'll be back todayBefore
    sunset, without a doubt
    “You said that three days ago, and two days ago, and again yesterday,” I reminded him
    “I have a good feeling about todayDon't sulk–it's so human,” he teasedI was so worried I could barely think straightIt didn't leave me
    energy to do anything else
    “This isn't the first raid Jamie's gone on
    “That makes me feel so much bett
    Friday, December 17th, 2010
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    He wakes up that night in an alley with a blood crust on his cheekWhen he grimaces he can feel the crust shredding into cracksA cop picks him up and sends him to Bellevue, where he is kept for two days, and when he gets out he panhandles for a couple of weeks
    But there is the happy endingHe catches a job finally as a dishwasher in a fancy restaurant in the East Sixties, and he gets friendly with a waitress there, ends up by living with her in a couple of furnished rooms on West 27th StreetShe has an eight-year-old kid who likes Red, and they get along well for a couple of years

    Red switches to a job fendi sale as night clerk in one of the flophouses on the BoweryIt's easier than dishwashing, and pays him five bucks more, twenty-three a weekHe holds on to it for the last two years before the war, drifting along through the liquid fetid heat of summer in the Bowery and the chill damp winters when the walls leak and the brown plaster becomes stained with grayLong nights pass in which he thinks of nothing, listening dully to the periodic wrangling passage of the trains on the Third Avenue el, waiting for the morning so he can go home to Lois
    Several times a night he passes through the main room where forty or fifty rolex submariner price men are sleeping uneasily on their iron cots, and he listens to the constant soft coughing and smells the harsh styptic formalin and the bodies of the old drunks, a crabbed smell, glum and souredThe hallways and the bathroom stink of disinfectant, and over the urinals there is almost always a drunk retching his liquor, holding dreamily to the porcelain near the flush leverHe closes the door and goes into the card room, where a few old men are playing pinochle around an old round table, the floor under them black with grease and cigarette endsRed listens to their talk, mumbled and unfinished
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    Come on down in the street, and I'll take you on
    Then one of them comes up to Red, and whispers to him, You better leave him alone 'cause he'll throw you down the stairs, the last night man he broke his neckI'm sorry I disturbed ya, pop, I'll be minding my manners
    You do that, son, and you and me won't have no trouble
    Across the street, they can hear a jukebox grinding in a barroom
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    He's having fun, she thought, making those jokes of his that he knows
    I
    hardly ever understandJust the way he used to before
    before things went badI mustn't put my foot wrong now
    What would I have said, before I loved him so much? "I'm surprised
    that you'd come to a ball in Atlanta when there are such big new louis vuitton doings in
    your precious Charleston," she said
    Not exactly mean, but not too loving, eitherRhett's eyebrows rose in
    black crescents above hismask, Scarlett held her breathHe'd always
    done that when he was amusedShe was acting just right
    "How do you come to be so informed about Charleston's social ladies watches gucci life,
    Scarlett?"
    "I read the paper,; Some silly woman keeps going on and on about
    some
    horseraceShe thought he was smiling, but she
    couldn't really- see his lipsI read the newspapers, said
    Rhett
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    Atlanta decides to pretend that it's New OrleansHe
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    cobbled streets, tall shadowy rooms with great mirrors framed in dull
    gold, strange and marvelous foods gucci tote "I'll admit the refreshments
    aren't as fancy," she said grudgingly
    "A powerful understatement I'm making him laughI haven't heard
    him laugh for ages He must have seen the men flocking
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    Friday, December 10th, 2010
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    “Yes, but DeSole did because he’d sold out; he was part of itHe had to have been alertedWe’ve been penetratedSome maniac says he’s going to expose us, blow us apart
    You told me yourself that panic buttons were punched from the Trade Commission to Pentagon
    Procurements to the embassy in London
    “They were punched,” agreed Conklin“So hard that two of them had to be taken out along with
    Teagarten and our disgruntled MoleSnake Lady’s elders quickly decided who their vulnerable
    people wereBut where does Carlos or Bourne fit in? There’s no attribution
    “I thought we agreed that there was
    “DeSole?” Conklin shook his head“It’s a provocative thought, but it doesn’t washHe couldn’t
    have presumed that I knew about Medusa’s penetration because we hadn’t even started it
    “But when you did, the sequence had to bother him if only in the sense that although they were
    poles apart, one crisis followed too quickly upon anotherWhat was it? A matter of hours?”
    “Less than twenty-four Still, they were poles apart
    “Not for an analyst’s analyst,” countered Holland“If it walks like an odd duck and sounds like
    an odd duck, look for an odd duckI submit that somewhere along the line DeSole made the
    connection between Jason Bourne and the madman who had infiltrated Medusa—the new
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    “For Christ’s sake, how?”
    “I don’t knowMaybe because you told us Bourne came out of the old Saigon Medusa—that’s
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    “My God, you may be right,” said Alex, falling back on the couch“The driving force we gave
    our unnamed madman was that he’d been cut off from, the new MedusaI used the words myself
    with every phone call‘He’s spent years putting it toget
    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
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    I almost dropped the creepy little thing on the
    floor, where it surely would have shattered on the
    tiles
    "Just me, Elizabeth," I called back, laying the
    figure on the counter
    "Edmund? Or Edgar, or whatever your name is?"
    "Right I went back into the parlor
    "Did you take care of that business of mine?"
    "Yes, ma'am, I sure did
    "Have I had my snack yet?"
    "Yes
    "Do you want something else? I'm sure I could-"
    "No thanks, honI'm sure the train will be here
    soon, and you know I don't like to travel on a
    full stomachI always end up in one of the
    backwards seats and with food in my stomach I
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    should certainly be train-sickHave you seen my
    tin, my Sweet Owen tin?"
    "I think it was in the kitchenShould I bring
    it?"
    "Not on such a wet day," she said"I thought I'd
    have you throw her in the pond, the pond would do,
    but I've changed my mindIt seems unnecessary on
    such a wet dayThe quality of mercy is not
    strained, you knowIt droppeth like the gentle
    rain
    "From heaven," I said She flapped her hand as if that part
    were of no matter
    "Why don't you arrange your chinas, Elizabeth?
    They're all mixed up today
    She cast a glance at the table, then looked at the
    window when an especially strong gust of wind
    slapped it with rain"I'm so
    fucking confused And then, with a spite I would
    not have guessed she had in her: "They all died
    and left me to this
    I was the last one to be repulsed by her lapse
    into vulgarity; I understood it too wellMaybe
    the quality of mercy isn't strained, there are
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    millions of us who live and die by the idea, but
    we have things like this waiting
    She said, "He never should have got that thing,
    but he didn't kno
    Monday, December 6th, 2010
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    Before I could ask, Jared lifted the nameless woman tenderly from the cot, rolled her face-up,
    and laid her on another, cleaner resting placeThis tenderness did not move meThis tenderness
    was for the human, for Melanie
    Doc went with him, checking her pulse, peeking under her lidsHe shone a flashlight into her
    unconscious eyes and watched the pupils constrictNo light reflected back to blind himHe and
    Jared exchanged a long glance
    “She really did it,” Jared said, his voice low
    I didn't hear Jeb sidle up next to me
    “Pretty slick, kid,” he murmured
    “Feeling a smidge conflicted?”
    I didn't answer
    Aaron and Brandt were talking behind me, their voices rising with excitement, answering each
    other's thoughts before the questions were spoken
    “Wait till the others hear!”
    “Think of the –”
    “We should go get some –”
    “Right now, I'm ready –”
    “Hold up,” Jeb cut Brandt off“No soul snatching until that cryotank is safely on its way into
    outer spaceRight, Wanda?”
    “Right,” I agreed in a firmer voice, hugging the tank tighter to my chest
    Brandt and Aaron exchanged sour glances
    I was going to need more alliesJared and Jeb and Doc were only three, though certainly the
    most influential three hereStill, they would need support
    I knew what this meant
    It meant talking to Ian
    Others, too, of course, but Ian would have to be one of themMy heart seemed to slump lower
    in my chest, to curl limply in on itselfI'd done many things I had not wanted to do since joining
    the humans, but I couldn't remember any this sharply and pointedly painfulEven deciding to
    trade my life for the Seeker's–that was a huge, vast hurt, a wide field of ache, but it was almost
    manageable because it was so tied up in the bigger pictur
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    His senior year he branches out, plays house football with a surprising and furious satisfactionOne play he never quite forgetsA ball carrier on the opposing team breaks through a hole in the line, is checked momentarily, and is standing there stock upright, helpless, when Hearn tackles himHe has charged with all his strength and the player is taken off the field with a earrings chanel wrenched knee while Hearn patters after him
    You all right, Ronnie?
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    Good tackle, HearnOnly he knows he isn'tThere has been an instant of complete startling gratification when he knew the ball carrier was helpless, waiting to be hitThere is not even any cynical pleasure in making the All-House football team
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    The stags line up against the wall, chat cursorily with one another, and cut in to dance with either a girl they know or the girl of a man they knowHearn smokes a cigarette or two, quite bored, and then cuts in on a little blonde girl dancing with a tall blond clubman
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    More and more often this inexplicable humorSomewhere in the cavernous and undoubtedly rotten tissues of the collective brain of Al, of Jansen, of the magazine men, the college literary critics, in the aesthetes' salons, in the modern living rooms on the quiet back streets of Cambridge, there would be the unadmitted hunger to be bored and superior at a Brattle Hall dance, either that or go to Spain
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