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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    1:22 pm
    @@@@@On his side the inclination was stronger,
    @@@@@On his side the inclination was stronger, on
    hers less equivocalHis objections, the scruples of his integrity,
    seemed all done away, nobody could tell how; and the doubts and
    hesitations of her ambition were equally got over—and equally without
    apparent reasonIt could only be imputed to increasing attachment
    His good and her bad feelings yielded to love, and such love
    must unite themHe was to go to town as soon as some business
    relative to Thornton Lacey were completed—perhaps within a fortnight;
    he talked of going, he loved to talk of it; and when once with
    her again, Fanny could not doubt the restHer acceptance must be
    as certain as his offer; and yet there were bad feelings still remaining
    which made the prospect of it most sorrowful to her, independently,
    she believed, independently of self
    In their very last conversation, Miss Crawford, in spite of some
    amiable sensations, and much personal kindness, had still been Miss
    Crawford; still shewn a mind led astray and bewildered, and without
    any suspicion of being so; darkened, yet fancying itself lightShe might
    love, but she did not deserve Edmund by any other sentimentFanny
    believed there was scarcely a second feeling in common between them;
    and she may be forgiven by older sages for looking on the chance of
    Miss Crawford’s future improvement as nearly desperate, for thinking
    that if Edmund’s influence in this season of love had already done
    so little in clearing her judgment, and regulating her notions, his worth
    would be finally wasted on her even in years of matrimony
    Experience might have hoped more for any young people so circumstanced,
    and impartiality would not have denied to Miss
    Crawford’s nature that participation of the general nature of women
    which would lead her to adopt the opinions of the man she loved
    and respected as her ownBut as such were Fanny’s persuasions, she
    suffered very much from them, and could never speak of Miss
    Crawford without pain
    Sir Thomas, meanwhile, went on with his own hopes and his own
    observations, still feeling a right, by all his knowledge of human
    nature, to expect to see the effect of the loss of power and consequence
    on his niece’s spirits, and the past attentions of the lover
    producing a craving for their return; and he was soon afterwards
    able to account for his not yet completely and indubitably seeing all
    320
    Mansfield Park
    this, by the prospect of another visitor, whose approach he could
    allow to be quite enough to support the spirits he was watching
    William had obtained a ten days’ leave of absence, to be given to
    Northamptonshire, and was coming, the happiest of lieutenants,
    because the latest made, to shew his happiness and describe his uniform
    He came; and he would have been delighted to shew his uniform
    there too, had not cruel custom prohibited its appearance except on
    dutySo the uniform remained at Portsmouth, and Edmund conjectured
    that before Fanny had any chance of seeing it, all its own freshness
    and all the freshness of its wearer’s feelings must be worn awayIt
    would be sunk into a badge of disgrace; for what can be more unbecoming,
    or more worthless, than the uniform of a lieutenant, who
    has been a lieutenant a year or two, and sees others made commanders
    before him? So reasoned Edmund, till his father made him the
    confidant of a scheme which placed Fanny’s chance of seeing the second
    lieutenant of HThrush in all his glory in another light
    This scheme was that she should accompany her brother back to
    Portsmouth, and spend a little time with her own familyIt had
    occurred to Sir Thomas, in one of his dignified musings, as a right
    and desirable measure; but before he absolutely made up his mind,
    he consulted his sonEdmund considered it every way, and saw
    nothing but what was rightThe thing was good in itself, and could
    not be done at a better time; and he had no doubt of it being highly
    agreeable to FannyThis was enough to determine Sir Thomas; and
    a decisive “then so it shall be” closed that stage of the business; Sir
    Thomas retiring from it with some feelings of satisfaction, and views
    of good over and above what he had communicated to his son; for
    his prime motive in sending her away had very little to do with the
    propriety of her seeing her parents again, and nothing at all with
    any idea of making her happyHe certainly wished her to go willingly,
    but he as certainly wished her to be heartily sick of home
    before her visit ended; and that a little abstinence from the elegancies
    and luxuries of Mansfield Park would bring her mind into a
    sober state, and incline her to a juster estimate of the value of that
    home of greater permanence, and equal comfort, of which she had
    the offer
    321
    Jane Austen
    It was a medicinal project upon his niece’s understanding, which
    he must consider as at present diseasedA residence of eight or nine
    years in the abode of wealth and plenty had a little disordered her
    powers of comparing and judgi
    6:55 am
    @@@@@ We were worried about sending them to the
    @@@@@
    We were worried about sending them to the State University what with the depression and all, but I think we can see our way clear nowBrown, she'll add, always has wanted them to go, especially since he missed it

    The brother and sister are good friendsIn the sun parlor where the maple sofa is flanked by the vase (which had been a flower pot until the rubber plant died) and the radio, the girl makes him lead her
    Now, look, Willie-boy, it's easyYou just don' have to be afraid of holdin' me
    Who's afraid of holdin' ya?
    You're not such a roughneck, she says from the vantage of senior year in high schoolYou're gonna be dating soon
    Yeah, he exclaims with disgustBut he feels her small pert breasts against his chestHe is almost as tall as herWho's gonna date?
    You are
    They shuffle along the smooth red stone of the floorHey, Patty, when Tom Elkins comes around to see you, lemme talk to himI wanna know if he thinks I'll be big enough to get on the football team in a coupla years
    Tom Elkins, that ol' fool He looks at her in disgustWhat's the matter with Tom Elkins?
    It's all right, Willie, you'll make the team

    He never does get quite big enough, but by his junior year he is the head of the cheer leaders, and he has talked his father into buying him a used car
    You don't understand, Pop, I really need the carA guy's gotta get aroundLike last Friday when I had to get all the crew together to practice for the Wadsworth game, I wasted all the afternoon just running around
    Are you sure, Son, it won't be a wanton extravagance?
    I really need it, PopI'll even work summers to pay you back
    It's not a question of that, although I think you oughter to keep you from getting spoiled
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    1:22 pm
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    me everything you’ve got—telephone and license numbers, every name you can remember,
    anything you can give me that I ask forSwayne, I know that there are probably a lot of little things you’d like to
    take along, but—”
    “Forget it, MrMementos I don’t haveWhatever I really wanted was long since shipped
    out of this hell holeIt’s all in storage ten thousand miles away
    “My, you really were prepared, weren’t you?”
    “Tell me something I cartier watches women don’t knowYou see, the time had to come, one way or the other, y’know
    what I mean?” Rachel walked rapidly past the two men and into the hall; she stopped and came
    back to Master Sergeant Flannagan, a smile on her lips, a glow in her eyes, as she placed her hand
    on his face“Hey, Eddie,” she said quietly“It’s really gonna happenWe’re gonna live, Eddie
    Y’know what I mean?”
    “Yeah, babe
    As they walked out into the darkness toward the cabin, Bourne used louis vuitton spoke“I meant what I said about
    not wasting time, SergeantWhat were you going to tell me about Swayne’s place
    here?”
    “Are you ready?”
    “What does that mean? Of course I’m readyHe stopped suddenly on the grass
    at Flannagan’s words
    “For openers, it’s a cemetery
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    106
    Alex Conklin sat back in the desk chair, the phone in his hand, stunned, frowning, unable to
    summon a rational response to Jason’s astonishing gucci fabric informationAll he could say was “I don’t
    believe it!”
    “Which part?”
    “I don’t knowBut I have to believe it, don’t I?”
    “You didn’t want to believe London or Brussels, either, or a commander of the Sixth Fleet or the
    keeper of the covert keys in LangleyI’m just adding to the listThe point is, once you find out
    who they all are, we can move
    “You’ll have to start from the beginning again; my head’s shreddedThe telephone number in
    New York, the license gucci men's watch plates—”
    “The body, Alex! Flannagan and the general’s wife! They’re on their way; that was the deal and
    you’ve got to cover it
    “Just like that? Swayne kills himself and the two people on the premises who can answer
    questions, we say Ciao to them and let them get away? That’s only slightly more lunatic than what
    you’ve told me!”
    “We don’t have time for negotiating games—and besides, he can’t answer any more questions
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    6:55 am
    @@@@@"They're the newest O'Haras to come to
    @@@@@"They're the newest O'Haras to
    come to Savannah It didn't matter at all that Matt and Katie
    O'Hara's double parlors held almost no furnitureThey had fireplaces
    for warmth, gaslit ceiling globes for light, and a broad, polished wood
    floor for dancingThe hours Scarlett passed in those bare rooms that
    Saturday were among the happiest she'd ever knownWithin the
    family
    the O 'Haras shared love and happiness as freely and unconsciously as
    they shared the air they breathedScarlett felt within her the growth
    of something she had lost too long ago to rememberShe became,
    like
    them, unaffected and spontaneous and open to carefree joyShe
    could
    shed the artifice and calculation that she'd learned to use in the
    battles for conquest and dominance that were part of being a belle in
    Southern societyShe had no need to charm or conquer; she was
    welcome
    as she was, one of the familyFor the first time in her life she was
    willing to relinquish the spotlight to let someone else be the center
    of attentionThe others were fascinating to her, primarily because
    they were her new-found family, but also because she'd never known
    anyone like them in her lifeScarlett looked at
    Maureen, with Brian and Daniel making music behind her, Helen and
    Mary
    Kate clapping in time with the rhythm she was setting with the bones,
    and for a moment it was as if the vivid redheads were the youthful
    Tarletons come back to lifeThe twins, tall and handsome, the girls
    squirming with juvenile impatience to move on to the next adventure
    life held for themScarlett had always envied the Tarleton girls
    their freeand-easy ways with their motherNow she saw the same
    easiness between Maureen and her childrenAnd she knew that she,
    too,
    was welcome to laugh with Maureen, to tease and be teased, to share
    in
    the bounteous affection that Jamie's wife showered on everyone
    around
    herAt that moment Scarlett's near-worship of her serene,
    self-contained mother shivered and suffered a tiny crack, and she
    began
    to free herself of the guilt she'd always felt because she couldn't
    live up to her mother's teachingsPerhaps it was all right if she
    wasn't a perfect lady
    The idea was too rich, too complicatedShe'd think about it later
    She didn't want to think about anything nowNot yesterday, not
    tomorrowThe only thing that mattered was this moment and the
    happiness it held, the music and singing and clapping and dancing
    After the formal rituals of Charleston's balls, the spontaneous
    home-made pleasures were intoxicatingScarlett breathed deep of
    the
    joy and laughter around her, and it giddied her
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    1:30 pm
    @@@@@dishes one after another for
    @@@@@dishes one after another for her
    approval
    Scarlett accepted rashers of bacon and a spoonful of salt and
    scrambled
    eggs"Yes, grilled tomato," she said, "no, nothing cold ham,
    preserved goose, jellied quail eggs, spiced beef, salted fish, aspics,
    ices, fruits, cheeses, breads, relishes, jams, sauces, wines, ale,
    cider, coffee-all no"I'll have tea," she saidShe was sure she
    could swallow some teaThen she'd be able to go back to her room
    Luckily this was a big party, and mostly for shootingMost of the men
    would already be out with their guns
    There would be luncheon in the house and somewhere on the grounds,
    wherever the shoot wasThere would be tea served indoors and out
    Everyone could choose amusementsNo one was required to be any
    special place at any special time until dinner was servedThe guest
    card in her room said to gather in the drawing room after the first
    dinner gong at seven forty-fiveProcessing into dinner at eightShe
    indicated a chair beside a woman she hadn't met before
    The footman deposited her plate and the small tray with individual tea
    serviceThen he pulled out the chair, seated her, shook out the folds
    of her napkin, and draped it across her lapScarlett nodded to the
    woman"Good morning," she said, "my name is Scarlett O'hara The
    woman had a lovely smileI've been looking forward
    to
    meeting youMy cousin Lucy Fane told me that she'd met you at Bart
    Morland'sWhen Parnell was thereTell me, don't you find it
    delectably seditious to admit that one supports Nome Rule? My
    name's
    May Taplow, by the
    6:55 am
    @@@@@ Fords concentrated on the unconscious body;
    @@@@@
    Fords concentrated on the unconscious body; he edged the scalpel through the skin at the base
    of the subject's skull with small, precise movements, and then sprayed on the medication that
    stilled the excess flow of blood before he widened the fissureFords delved delicately beneath
    the neck muscles, careful not to injure them, exposing the pale bones at the top of the spinal
    column
    “The soul is ready, Fords,” Darren informed him
    Fords felt Darren at his elbow and knew without looking that his assistant would be prepared,
    his hand stretched out and waiting; they had worked together for many years nowFords held
    the gap open
    “Send her home,” he whispered
    Darren's hand moved into view, the silver gleam of an awaking soul in his cupped palm
    Fords never saw an exposed soul without being struck by the beauty of it
    The soul shone in the brilliant lights of the operating room, brighter than the reflective silver
    instrument in his handLike a living ribbon, she twisted and rippled, stretching, happy to be free
    of the cryotankHer thin, feathery attachments, nearly a thousand of them, billowed softly like
    pale silver hairThough they were all lovely, this one seemed particularly graceful to Fords Deep
    Waters
    He was not alone in his reactionHe heard Darren's soft sigh, heard the admiring murmurs of
    the students
    Gently, Darren placed the small glistening creature inside the opening Fords had made in the
    human's neckThe soul slid smoothly into the offered space, weaving herself into the alien
    anatomyFords admired the skill with which she possessed her new homeHer attachments
    wound tightly into place around the nerve centers, some elongating and reaching deeper to
    where he couldn't see, under and up into the brain, the optic nerves, the ear canalsShe was very
    quick, very firm in her movementsSoon, only one small segment of her glistening body was
    visible
    “Well done,” he whispered to her, knowing that she could not hear himThe human girl was
    the one with ears, and she still slept soundly
    It was a routine matter to finish the jobHe cleaned and healed the wound, applied the salve
    that sealed the incision closed behind the soul, and then brushed the scar-softening powder
    across the line left on her neck
    “Perfect, as usual,” said the assistant, who, for some reason unfathomable to Fords, had never
    made a change from his human host's name, Darre
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    1:30 pm
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    veins on the back of his handI lifted his hand gingerly, worried about the slender bones that
    Jamie had said were so brittleIt felt too light, as if it were hollow
    “Ah, Gladdie, it's been hard louis vuitton logo without youIt's a nice place here; you'll like it, even when I'm
    gonePlenty of people to talk to–I know how you need to have your conversation” The
    volume of his voice sank until I couldn't make out the words anymore, but his lips still shaped
    the words he wanted to share with his wifeHis mouth kept cartier watch replica moving, even when his eyes closed
    and his head lolled to the side
    Ian found a wet cloth and began wiping Walter's shining face
    “I'm not good at… at deception,” I whispered, watching Walter's mumbling lips to make sure
    he wasn't listening to me“I don't want to upset him
    “You don't have to say chanel tote anything,” Ian reassured me“He's not lucid enough to care
    “Do I look like her?”
    “Not a bit–I've seen her picture
    “Here, let me do that
    Ian gave me the rag, and I cleaned the sweat off Walter's neckBusy hands always made me
    feel more comfortableWalter continued to mumbleI thought I heard him rolex oyster perpetual daytona say, “Thanks,
    Gladdie, that's nice
    I didn't notice that Doc's snores had stoppedHis familiar voice was suddenly there behind me,
    too gentle to startle
    “How is he?”
    “Delusional,” Ian whispered“Is that the brandy or the pain?”
    “More the pain, I would thinkI'd trade my right arm for some gucci women watches morphin
    7:03 am
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    charcoal or in jolly watercolors, the family
    members almost always with their hands linked like
    paperdollsthen a storm, the water in the
    swimming pool lashed into waves, the fronds of a
    palm pulled into ragged banners by the wind
    There were well over a hundred pictures in all
    She might only have been a child, but she had also
    been unbottlingTwo or three more storm
    picturesmaybe the Alice pasha cartier watch that had uncovered
    Eastlake's treasure-trove, maybe just a big
    thunderstorm, it was impossible to say for surethe Gulf again, this time with
    flying fish the size of dolphinsthe Gulf with
    pelicans that appeared to have rainbows in their
    mouths
    I stopped, my breath caught in my throat
    Compared with many of the others I'd gone through,
    this one was dead simple, just the silhouette of a
    ship against the dying light, caught at the
    tipping-point omega seamaster watch between day and dark, but its
    simplicity was what gave it its powerCertainly
    I'd thought so when I drew the same thing on my
    first night in Big PinkHere was the same cable,
    stretched taut between the bow and what might in
    Elizabeth's time have been called a Marconi tower,
    creating a brilliant orange triangleHere was the
    same upward shading of light, orange to blue
    There was even the same scribbly, not-quitecareless
    overlay of color that made the ship dior saddle -
    skinnier than mine had been - look like a phantom
    out there, trudging its way north
    "I drew this," I said faintly
    "I know," Wireman said
    800
    I thumbed deeper, hurrying through big bunches of
    watercolors and colored pencil drawings, knowing
    what I would eventually findAnd yes, near the
    bottom I came to Elizabeth's first picture of the
    PerseOnly she had drawn it new, a slim threemasted
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    trademark Elizabeth Eastlake sun, the kind that
    shoots off long happy-rays of lightIt was a
    wonderful piece of work, almost begging for a
    calypso sound-track
    But unlike her other paintings, it also felt false
    "Keep going, muchachofamily, four of them,
    anyway, standing on the beach with their hands
    linked like paperdolls and those big Elizabeth
    happysmilesthe house, with what
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    1:22 pm
    @@@@@ They sat down beside the trail"Mistake
    @@@@@
    They sat down beside the trail"Mistake trying this," the officer gasped
    Croft, with his lean ropy body, had borne the labor comparatively well, but his voice was unsteady and he had to talk with short quick spates of words
    "Have to go one mileMore than halfway there, I thinkNever should have tried it,"
    "They need the guns bad?"
    The officer halted for a moment and tried to speak normallythere's no tank weapons thereWe stopped a tank attack two hours agoOrders came to move some thirty-sevens over to First BattalionGuess they expect attack there
    "Better get them through," Croft saidHe was contemptuous because the officer had to talk to himThe man ought to be able to do his own job The officer stood up and leaned for a moment against a tree"If you get a gun stuck, let me knowHave to cross a stream
    He began to feel his way forward, and Croft turned around and worked his way back to the gun he was pullingThe column was over two hundred yards long by nowThey started to move, and the labor continuedOnce or twice a flare filtered a wan and delicate bluish light over them, the light almost lost in the dense foliage through which it had to passIn the brief moment it lasted, they were caught at their guns in classic straining motions that had the form and beauty of a friezeTheir uniforms were twice blackened, by the water and the dark slime of the trailAnd for the instant the light shone on them their faces stood out, white and contortedEven the guns had a slender articulated beauty like an insect reared back on its wire haunchesThen darkness swirled about them again, and they ground the guns forward blindly, a line of ants dragging their burden back to their
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
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    Scarlett's head jerked to one side, denying the open grave, the plain
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    the soft wood, marks of the hammers that had driven the nails to close
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    Melly
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    Scarlett
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    much
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    and
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    6:55 am
    @@@@@If he touched him he would be killedBut it
    @@@@@If he touched him he would be killedBut it seemed unbelievable
    He could not go back nowIt was impossible to turn his body around without making some small sound, enough in any case to alert the machine gunnerAnd it was impossible to pass him; the trail skirted the lip of the machine-gun emplacementHe would have to kill himEven at the thought Martinez's overpitched senses rebelledHe lay there shuddering, conscious suddenly of how weak, how tired, he feltThere seemed no strength, no capacity for effort left in his limbsHe was reduced to peering through the foliage at the moonlight on the soldier's faceAt any moment the machine gunner might stand up and go to awaken the next man for his turn at guard, and he would be discoveredHe had to kill him right away
    And again there seemed something wrong in his calculationsHe felt that if only he could shake his head or flex his limbs this would become clear to him, but now he was caughtMartinez reached back for his trench knife, slipped it softly out of the scabbardThe handle felt uncomfortable in his palm, alien; although he had used it a hundred times for other purposes, opening cans or cutting something, he did not know how to hold it nowThe blade kept reflecting a sliver of moonlight, and he held it under his forearm at last, staring with terrified stricken eyes at the soldier in the gun holeAlready he felt as if he knew him well; each of his slow leisurely motions traced a familiar route in Martinez's mind -- as the Jap picked at his nose delicately a grin was wrenched from Martinez's mouthHe was not even aware of it except for the fatigue in his cheek muscles
    I go kill him, he commanded himself, but nothing happenedHe remained lying on the ground with the knife concealed beneath his arm, the damp earth of the trail chilling his body slowlyAt alternate instants he felt in fever and then coldThe moment had become unreal to him again, and he had the qualified controlled terror that he knew in his nightmaresIt was not real, and he shuddered once more, thinking of turning backSlowly -- it took him over a minute -- he got to his hands and knees, brought one foot under him, and swayed there, no more certain of attacking or retreating than a coin on edge about to fal
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    1:23 pm
    @@@@@If everything goes the way I intend it to go
    @@@@@If everything goes the way I intend it to go here, I don’t
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    142
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    Jane Austen
    Mansfield Park
    (1814)
    by
    Jane Austen
    (1775-1817)
    CHAPTER I
    ABOUT THIRTY YEARS AGO Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with
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    All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match,
    and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three
    thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to itShe had two
    sisters to be benefited by her elevation; and such of their acquaintance
    as thought Miss Ward and Miss Frances quite as handsome as
    Miss Maria, did not scruple to predict their marrying with almost
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    Miss Ward, at the end of half a dozen years, found herself obliged to
    be attached to the RevNorris, a friend of her brother-in-law,
    with scarcely any private fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet worse
    Miss Ward’s match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not
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    contemptible: Sir Thomas being happily able to give his friend an
    income in the living of Mansfield; and
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