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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    5:38 pm
    @@@@@This weather is all from the south “South
    @@@@@This weather is all from the south
    “South or north, I know a black cloud when I see it; and you
    must not set forward while it is so threateningAnd besides, I want
    to play something more to you—a very pretty piece—and your
    cousin Edmund’s prime favouriteYou must stay and hear your
    cousin’s favourite
    Fanny felt that she must; and though she had not waited for that
    sentence to be thinking of Edmund, such a memento made her
    particularly awake to his idea, and she fancied him sitting in that
    room again and again, perhaps in the very spot where she sat now,
    listening with constant delight to the favourite air, played, as it appeared
    to her, with superior tone and expression; and though pleased
    with it herself, and glad to like whatever was liked by him, she was
    more sincerely impatient to go away at the conclusion of it than she
    had been before; and on this being evident, she was so kindly asked
    to call again, to take them in her walk whenever she could, to come
    and hear more of the harp, that she felt it necessary to be done, if no
    objection arose at home
    Such was the origin of the sort of intimacy which took place between
    them within the first fortnight after the Miss Bertrams’ going
    away—an intimacy resulting principally from Miss Crawford’s desire
    of something new, and which had little reality in Fanny’s feelings
    Fanny went to her every two or three days: it seemed a kind of
    fascination: she could not be easy without going, and yet it was
    without loving her, without ever thinking like her, without any sense
    of obligation for being sought after now when nobody else was to
    be had; and deriving no higher pleasure from her conversation than
    occasional amusement, and that often at the expense of her judgment,
    when it was raised by pleasantry on people or subjects which
    she wished to be respectedShe went, however, and they sauntered
    181
    Jane Austen
    about together many an half-hour in MrsGrant’s shrubbery, the
    weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing
    sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively
    unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some
    tender ejaculation of Fanny’s on the sweets of so protracted an autumn,
    they were forced, by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking
    down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk
    for warmth
    “This is pretty, very pretty,” said Fanny, looking around her as
    they were thus sitting together one day; “every time I come into this
    shrubbery I am more struck with its growth and beautyThree years
    ago, this was nothing but a rough hedgerow along the upper side of
    the field, never thought of as anything, or capable of becoming anything;
    and now it is converted into a walk, and it would be difficult
    to say whether most valuable as a convenience or an ornament; and
    perhaps, in another three years, we may be forgetting—almost forgetting
    what it was beforeHow wonderful, how very wonderful
    the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!” And
    following the latter train of thought, she soon afterwards added: “If
    any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than
    the rest, I do think it is memoryThere seems something more
    speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities
    of memory, than in any other of our intelligencesThe memory
    is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so
    bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond
    control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of
    recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out
    Miss Crawford, untouched and inattentive, had nothing to say;
    and Fanny, perceiving it, brought back her own mind to what she
    thought must interest
    “It may seem impertinent in me to praise, but I must admire the
    taste MrsGrant has shewn in all thisThere is such a quiet simplicity
    in the plan of the walk! Not too much attempted!”
    “Yes,” replied Miss Crawford carelessly, “it does very well for a
    place of this sortOne does not think of extent here; and between
    ourselves, till I came to Mansfield, I had not imagined a country
    parson ever aspired to a shrubbery, or anything of the kind
    182
    Mansfield Park
    “I am so glad to see the evergreens thrive!” said Fanny, in reply
    “My uncle’s gardener always says the soil here is better than his own,
    and so it appears from the growth of the laurels and evergreens in
    generalThe evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful
    the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety
    of nature! In some countries we know the tree that sheds its leaf
    is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing that the same
    soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first
    rule and law of their existenceYou will think me rhapsodising; but
    when I am out of doors, especially when I am sitting out of doors, I
    am very apt to get into this sort of wondering strainOne cannot fix
    one’s eyes on the commonest natural production without finding
    food for a rambling fancy
    “To say the truth,” replied Miss Crawford, “I am something like
    the famous Doge at the court of Lewis X
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    5:43 pm
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    the first part unable to participate actively, due to the sensitive nature of their high official
    positions, is that about it?”
    “Just about, except that these same powerful men in Washington can gain access to the identity
    and the whereabouts of this much desired corpse-to-be
    “Naturally,” agreed Alex, nodding in disbelief“They simply wave a wand and all the
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    “Exactly,” said David firmly“Because whoever meets with Carlos’s emissaries has to be so
    high up, so authentic, that the Jackal has no choice but to accept him or themHe can’t have any
    doubts, all thoughts of a trap gone with their coming forward
    “Would you also like me to make baby roses bloom during a January blizzard in Montana?”
    “Close to itEverything’s got to replica tiffany jewelry happen within the next day or two while Carlos is still stinging
    from what happened at the SmithsonianI’ll set up shop here and have Langley send me what I need
    Four Zero security, of courseI hate like hell to lose whoever it is at the Mayflower
    “We may not,” said Webb“Whoever it is won’t fold so fastIt’s not like the Jackal to leave an
    obvious hole like that
    “The Jackal? You think it’s Carlos himself?”
    “Not him, of course, but someone on his handbag dolce gabbana payroll, someone so unlikely he could carry a sign
    around his neck with the Jackal’s name on it and we wouldn’t believe him
    “Chinese?”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    37
    “MaybeHe might play that out and then he might notHe’s geometric; whatever he does is
    logical, even his logic seems illogical
    “I hear a man from the past, a man who never was
    Conklin looked toward the door of the apartment, David’s words suddenly provoking gucci women watch another
    thought“Where’s your suitcase?” he asked“You brought some clothes, didn’t you?”
    “No clothes, and these will be dropped in a Washington sewer once I have othersBut first I
    have to see another old friend of mine, another genius who lives in the wrong section of town
    “Let me guess,” said the retired agent“An elderly black man with the improbable name of
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    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    5:44 pm
    @@@@@ Scarlett kissed her cousin's cheek He
    @@@@@
    Scarlett kissed her cousin's cheek
    He hadn't said, "I told you so In the weeks that followed, Scarlett
    was invited to two more house parties, by people she had met at Alice
    Harrington'sShe wrote stilted, proper refusals for bothWhen the
    haycocks were finished she had the hired lads start working on the
    ruined lawn behind the houseIt could be back in good grass by next
    summer, and Cat would love to play croquetThat part had been fun
    The wheat was ripe yellow, almost ready to harvest, when a rider
    brought a note to her and invited himself into the kitchen for a cup of
    tea "or something more manly" while he waited for her to write a reply
    for him to take backCharlotte Montague would like to call on her if
    it was convenientWho on earth was Charlotte Montague? Scarlett
    had
    to rack her brain for nearly ten minutes before she recalled the
    pleasant, unobtrusive older woman at the Harringtons'
    Montague,
    she remembered, had not raced around like a wild Indian on
    Midsummer
    NightShe'd sort of disappeared after dinnerNot that it made her
    any less English
    But what could she want? Scarlett's curiosity was piquedThe note
    said "a matter of considerable interest to us both She went to the
    kitchen herself to give MrsMontague's messenger the note inviting
    her to tea that afternoonShe knew she was trespassing on MrsThe kitchen was supposed to be viewed only from the
    bridge-like gallery aboveBut it was her kitchen, wasn't it? And Cat
    had started spending hours there every day, why couldn't she?
    Scarlett
    nearly put on her pink frock for MrsIt was cooler
    than her Galway skirts and the afternoon was very warm, for Ireland
    Then she put it back in the wardrobeShe wouldn't pretend to be
    what
    she was notShe ordered harm brack for tea instead of the scones
    she
    usually hadCharlotte Montague was wearing a gray linen jacket and
    skirt with a lace jabot that Scarlett's fingers itched to touc
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    5:46 pm
    @@@@@Only as I finished speaking did I realize
    @@@@@Only as I finished speaking did I realize that the doctor wasn't
    snoring anymoreI could hear no noise from his breathingI cursed myself internally
    I whispered into his ear, so close that there was no way the doctor could possibly overhear
    “Yes, she's very strong
    Jamie strained to hear me, frowning, and then glanced at the opening to the dark hallHe must
    have realized the same thing I had, because he turned his face to my ear and whispered back
    softer than before“Why would you do that? Not hurt us? Isn't that what you want?”
    “NoI don't want to hurt you
    “Why?”
    “Your sister and I have… spent a lot of time togetherShe shared you with meAnd… I started
    to… to love you, too
    “And Jared, too?”
    I gritted my teeth for a second, chagrined that he had made the connection so easily“Of course
    I don't want anything to hurt Jared, either
    “He hates you,” Jamie told me, plainly grieved by the fact
    “You might, after you think about it more
    “But you weren't even here when they took overYou didn't pick my dad or my mom or
    MelanieYou were in outer space then, right?”
    “Yes, but I am what I am, JamieI've had many hosts before Melanie, and
    nothing's stopped me from… taking lives
    “Does Melanie hate you?”
    I thought for a minute“Not as much as she used toI don't hate you at all
    “She says she doesn't hate me at all anymore,” I murmured almost silently
    “How… how is she?”
    “She's happy to be her
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    5:38 pm
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    On the third day the men captured a Japanese airfieldIt was a minor affair, a quarter-mile strip of cleared jungle with a small hangar recessed in the brush and a few buildings already destroyed by the Japanese, but the Pacific communiques included it, and radio announcers mentioned the victory toward the end of their news broadcastsThe airfield had been taken by two platoons who circled the jungle about it, routed the sole machine-gun squad still defending the birkin hermes clearing, and radioed back to Battalion HeadquartersThe nightly defense positions of the General's troops had some coherence for the first timeThe General established a front line a few hundred yards beyond the airstrip, and listened that evening to the Japanese artillery bombarding the fieldBy midmorning the next day his troops had moved forward another half mile up the peninsula, and the front had broken again into sluggish separate globules of mercury
    It seemed impossible to maintain any sort of orderTwo companies might start in the morning with perfect liaison between their flanks, and by nightfall would be bivouacking a mile apartThe jungle offered far more resistance than balenciaga city the Japanese, and the troops tried to avoid it wherever they could, threading their way along creekbanks, forging trails through the comparatively uncluttered wilderness of natural coconut groves, and moving with pleasure through the occasional clearings of kunai grassThe Japanese in response would shell the clearings at unpredictable hours, so that the troops avoided them finally, and blundered through the uncertain avenues which thinner patches of jungle might provide
    In the first week of the campaign the jungle was easily the General's worst opponentThe division task force had been warned that the forests of Anopopei were formidable, but being told this did not make it gucci backpacks easierThrough the densest portions, a man would lose an hour in moving a few hundred feetIn the heart of the forests great trees grew almost a hundred yards high, their lowest limbs sprouting out two hundred feet from the groundBeneath them, filling the space, grew other trees whose shrubbery hid the giant ones from viewAnd in the little room left, a choked assortment of vines and ferns, wild banana trees, stunted palms, flowers, brush and shrubs squeezed against each other, raised their burdened leaves to the doubtful light that filtered through, sucking for air and food like snakes at the bottom of a pitIn the deep jungle it was always as dark as the sky before a summer balenciaga handbag thunderstorm, and no air ever stirredEverything was damp and rife and hot as though the jungle were an immense collection of oily rags growing hotter and hotter under the dark stifling vaults of a huge warehouseHeat licked at everything, and the foliage, responding, grew to prodigious sizesIn the depths, in the heat and the moisture, it was never silentThe birds cawed, the small animals and occasional snakes rustled and squealed, and beneath it all was a hush, almost palpable, in which could be heard the rapt absorbed sounds of vegetation growing
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    5:38 pm
    @@@@@Here is some great misapprehension which
    @@@@@Here is some great misapprehension which must be
    rectifiedIt is highly unfit for you to sit, be it only half an hour a
    day, without a fireYour aunt
    cannot be aware of this
    Fanny would rather have been silent; but being obliged to speak,
    she could not forbear, in justice to the aunt she loved best, from
    saying something in which the words “my aunt Norris” were distinguishable
    “I understand,” cried her uncle, recollecting himself, and not wanting
    to hear more: “I understandYour aunt Norris has always been
    an advocate, and very judiciously, for young people’s being brought
    up without unnecessary indulgences; but there should be moderation
    in everythingShe is also very hardy herself, which of course
    will influence her in her opinion of the wants of othersAnd on
    another account, too, I can perfectly comprehendI know what her
    sentiments have always beenThe principle was good in itself, but it
    may have been, and I believe has been, carried too far in your caseI
    am aware that there has been sometimes, in some points, a misplaced
    distinction; but I think too well of you, Fanny, to suppose
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    Jane Austen
    you will ever harbour resentment on that accountYou have an understanding
    which will prevent you from receiving things only in
    part, and judging partially by the eventYou will take in the whole
    of the past, you will consider times, persons, and probabilities, and
    you will feel that they were not least your friends who were educating
    and preparing you for that mediocrity of condition which seemed
    to be your lotThough their caution may prove eventually unnecessary,
    it was kindly meant; and of this you may be assured, that every
    advantage of affluence will be doubled by the little privations and
    restrictions that may have been imposedI am sure you will not
    disappoint my opinion of you, by failing at any time to treat your
    aunt Norris with the respect and attention that are due to herI must speak to you for a few
    minutes, but I will not detain you long
    Fanny obeyed, with eyes cast down and colour risingAfter a
    moment’s pause, Sir Thomas, trying to suppress a smile, went on
    “You are not aware, perhaps, that I have had a visitor this morning
    I had not been long in my own room, after breakfast, when Mr
    Crawford was shewn inHis errand you may probably conjecture
    Fanny’s colour grew deeper and deeper; and her uncle, perceiving
    that she was embarrassed to a degree that made either speaking or
    looking up quite impossible, turned away his own eyes, and without
    any farther pause proceeded in his account of MrCrawford’s business had been to declare himself the lover of
    Fanny, make decided proposals for her, and entreat the sanction of
    the uncle, who seemed to stand in the place of her parents; and he
    had done it all so well, so openly, so liberally, so properly, that Sir
    Thomas, feeling, moreover, his own replies, and his own remarks to
    have been very much to the purpose, was exceedingly happy to give
    the particulars of their conversation; and little aware of what was
    passing in his niece’s mind, conceived that by such details he must
    be gratifying her far more than himselfHe talked, therefore, for
    several minutes without Fanny’s daring to interrupt
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    5:42 pm
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    louis vuitton multicolore,gucci bookbag,prada clutch,vintage hermes,fake hermes@@@@@As with Alex’s initial call, catching Armbruster in the shower,
    he anonymously told the shaken chairman that someone would be in touch with him later in the
    day—either at the office or at homeThe contact would identify himself simply as Cobra(“Use all
    the banal trigger words you can come up with” was the gospel according to St In the
    meantime, Armbruster was instructed to talk to no one“Those are orders from the Sixth Fleet
    “Oh, louis vuitton multicolore Christ!”
    Thus Albert Armbruster called for his chariot and was driven home in discomfortFurther
    nausea was in store for the chairman, however, as Jason Bourne was waiting for himArmbruster,” said the stranger pleasantly as the chairman struggled out of
    the limousine, the door held open by the chauffeur
    “Yes, what?” Armbruster’s response was immediate, unsure
    “I merely said ‘Good afternoonWe met at the White House reception for
    the Joint Chiefs several gucci bookbag years ago—”
    “I wasn’t there,” broke in the chairman emphatically
    “Oh?” The stranger arched his brows, his voice still pleasant but obviously questioningArmbruster?” The chauffeur had closed the door and now turned courteously to the
    chairman“Will you be needing—”
    “No, no,” said Armbruster, again interrupting“You’re relieved—I won’t need you anymore
    today
    “Same time tomorrow morning, sir?”
    “Yes, tomorrow—unless you’re told otherwiseI’m prada clutch not a well man; check with the office The chauffeur tipped his visored cap and climbed back into the front seat
    “I’m sorry to hear that,” said the stranger, holding his place as the limousine’s engine was
    started and the automobile rolled awayI was never at the White House for that damned reception!”
    “Perhaps I was mistaken—”
    “Yes, well, nice to see you again,” said Armbruster anxiously, impatiently, hurrying to the steps
    that led up to his vintage hermes Georgetown house
    “Then again, I’m quite sure Admiral Burton introduced us—”
    “What?” The chairman spun around“What did you just say
    “This is a waste of time,” continued Jason Bourne, the pleasantness gone from his voice and his
    face Armbruster repeated the statement in a hoarse whisper,
    snapping his head up to look at the front of his house, to the windows and the door
    “You’ll be far worse unless we talk,” added Jason, following the chairman’s fake hermes ey
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    5:46 pm
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    wailing when she was only halfway through the colonnade from house
    to
    kitchen wingScarlett ran even faster"She didn't
    know the pan was hot" "already buttered her hand"
    "dropped it soon as she picked it up The
    voices were silver chanel all around herScarlett heard only Cat's"Momma's
    here,
    darlingWe'll fix Cat up quick as a wink scooped the crying child
    up in her arms and hastened to the She'd seen the furious red weal
    across Cat's palmIt was so swollen her little fingers chanel jewelry were spread
    wideThe drive had doubled its length, she'd swear itShe was
    running as fast as she could without risking a fallDevlin's
    not at his house, he won't have a roof over his head when he comes
    back
    I'll throw out every stick of furniture prada clutch he owns, and his family with
    it
    But the doctor was there"Now, now, there's no need to be in such a
    state, MrsAren't children having accidents all the time?
    Let me take a look at it Cat screamed when he pressed her handIt
    tore Scarlett like a chanel tote knife"It's a bad burn, and that's a fact," said
    Dr"We'll keep it greased till the blister fills, then cut
    and drain the liquid
    "She's hurting now, DoctorCan't you do something?" Cat's tears
    were
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    5:46 pm
    @@@@@“My eyes are still stinging Doc held up a
    @@@@@“My eyes are still stinging
    Doc held up a pair of bright red hands
    Doc gave a mocking bow from the waist, then turned to me“Wanda, I had a question for
    you” He let the words trail off
    I raised my eyebrows
    “Well, I was wondering Of all the different planets you're familiar with, which species is
    physically the closest to humankind?”
    I blinked“Why?”
    “Just good old-fashioned biological curiosityI guess I've been thinking about your Healers
    Where do they get the knowledge to cure, rather than just treat symptoms, as you said?” Doc
    was speaking louder than necessary, his mild voice carrying farther than usualSeveral people
    looked up–Trudy and Geoffrey, Lily, Walter…
    I wrapped my arms tightly around myself, trying to take up less space“Those are two different
    questions,” I murmured
    Doc smiled and gestured with one hand for me to proceed
    Jamie squeezed my hand“The Bears on the Mists Planet, probably
    “With the claw beasts?” Jamie whispered
    “How are they similar?” Doc prodded
    I rolled my eyes, feeling Jeb's direction in this, but continued“They're close to mammals in
    many waysTheir blood isn't exactly the same as yours, but it does
    essentially the same jobThey have similar emotions, the same need for societal interaction and
    creative outlets –”
    “Creative?” Doc leaned forward, fascinated–or feigning fascination“How so?”
    I looked at JamieWhy don't you tell Doc?”
    “I might get it wrong
    He looked at Doc, who nod
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    5:38 pm
    @@@@@Rosalita is sweet but there are girls
    @@@@@Rosalita is sweet but there are girls sweeterHe walks along the dirt-impacted streetsThey are beginning to pave them now
    Tired? Restless? Knock up a dame? Join The Army

    Martinez is a buck private in 1937He is still a private in thirty-nineNice shy Mex kid with good mannersHis equipment is always spotless, and that's sufficient for the cavalryYou weed the officers' gardens, you can be houseboy at their partiesYou groom a horse after you ride it; if it is a mare you swab out its dockThe stables are hot and fermy(I will buy you many dresses A soldier strikes a horse across the headThat's the only way that dumb four-legged sonofabitch knowsThe horse neighs with pain, lashes out with its feetThe soldier strikes it againSonofabitch kept tryin' to throw me todayTreat a horse like a nigger and it'll act up right
    Martinez steps out from his stall, is seen for the first timeHey, Julio, the soldier says, keep your mouth shut
    The instinctive quiver(Hey, you boy, hurry up that chiliI do that, Martinez says

    Fort Riley is big and green and the barracks are of red brickThe officers live in pretty little houses with gard
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    5:38 pm
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    Perhaps I may be to stay longerIt may not be convenient for me to be
    fetched exactly at the two months’ end
    After a moment’s reflection, MrCrawford replied, “I know
    Mansfield, I know its way, I know its faults towards youI know the
    danger of your being so far forgotten, as to have your comforts give
    way to the imaginary convenience of any single being in the family
    I am aware that you may be left here week after week, if Sir Thomas
    cannot settle everything for coming himself, or sending your aunt’s
    maid for you, Cartier watch tank without involving the slightest alteration of the arrangements
    which he may have laid down for the next quarter of a
    yearTwo months is an ample allowance; I should
    think six weeks quite enoughI am considering your sister’s health,”
    said he, addressing himself to Susan, “which I think the confinement
    of Portsmouth unfavourable toShe requires constant air and
    exerciseWhen you know her as well as I do, I am sure you will agree
    that she does, and that she ought never to be long banished from the
    free air and liberty of the countryIf, therefore” (turning again to
    Fanny), louis vuitton denim “you find yourself growing unwell, and any difficulties arise
    about your returning to Mansfield, without waiting for the two months
    to be ended, that must not be regarded as of any consequence, if you
    feel yourself at all less strong or comfortable than usual, and will only
    let my sister know it, give her only the slightest hint, she and I will
    immediately come down, and take you back to MansfieldYou know
    the ease and the pleasure with which this would be doneYou know
    all that would be felt on the occasion
    Fanny thanked him, but tried to laugh it off
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    “I am perfectly serious,” he replied, “as you perfectly knowAnd I
    hope you will not be cruelly concealing any tendency to indisposition
    Indeed, you shall not; it shall not be in your power; for so long
    only as you positively say, in every letter to Mary, ‘I am well,’ and I
    know you cannot speak or write a falsehood, so long only shall you
    be considered as well
    Fanny thanked him again, but was affected and distressed to a
    degree that made it impossible for her to say much, or even to be
    certain of what she ought to sayThis was towards the close of their
    walkHe clutch prada attended them to the last, and left them only at the door
    of their own house, when he knew them to be going to dinner, and
    therefore pretended to be waited for elsewhere
    “I wish you were not so tired,” said he, still detaining Fanny after
    all the others were in the house—”I wish I left you in stronger health
    Is there anything I can do for you in town? I have half an idea of
    going into Norfolk again soonI am not satisfied about Maddison
    I am sure he still means to impose on me if possible, and get a
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    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    5:51 pm
    @@@@@The actual executioner is unimportantThat
    @@@@@The actual executioner is unimportantThat may be true and it may not
    At first I didn’t buy it, not after DeSole and Armbruster, but the numbers add upTeagarten was
    forever sounding off about sending NATO forces into Lebanon and leveling every suspected
    Palestinian enclaveHe’s been threatened before; it’s just that the Medusa connection is too
    damned coincidental for meBut to answer your question, of course it was the Jackal
    “So he laid it on me, Carlos laid it on me!”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    204
    “He’s an ingenious fucker, I’ll say that for himYou come after him and he uses a contract that
    freezes you in Paris
    “Then we turn it around!”
    “What the hell are you talking about? You get out!”
    “No wayWhile he thinks I’m running, hiding, evading—I’m walking right into his nest
    “You’re nuts! You get out while we can still get you out!”
    “No, I stay inNumber one, he figures I have to in order to reach him, but, as you say, he’s
    locked me in iceHe thinks that after all these years I’ll panic in my fashion and make stupid
    moves—God knows I made enough on Tranquility—but so stupid here that his army of old men
    will find me by looking in the right places and knowing what to look forChrist, he’s good! Shake
    the bastard up so he’ll make a mistakeI know the way he thinks and I’ll
    outthink himI’ll stay on course, no prolonged safe cave for me
    “Cave? What cave?”
    “A figure of speech, forget itI was in place before the news of Teagarten
    “You’re not okay, you’re a fruitcake! Get out!”
    “Sorry, Saint Alex, this is exactly where I want to beI’m going after the Jackal
    “Well, maybe I can move you off that place you’re clinging toI spoke to Marie a couple of
    hours agoGuess what, you aging Neanderthal? She’s flying to Paris
    “She can’t!”
    “That’s what I said, but she wasn’t in a listening modeShe said she knew all the places you and
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    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    5:45 pm
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    He nodded, then stripped off his sweater
    "I need you by the window, so the light falls on
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    downThere's a stool in the kitchen you can sit
    onHow long have you got Annmarie for?"
    "She said she could stay until eight, and she'll
    give Miss Eastlake dinner
    I'll put it in your oven at five-thirty By the time the lasagna was ready, the
    light would be gone, anywayI could take some
    digital photos of Wireman, clip them to the easel,
    and work from thoseI was a fast worker, but I
    already knew this was going to be a longer process
    - days, at least
    When Wireman came back upstairs with the stool, he
    stopped dead"What are you doing?"
    "What does it look like I'm doing?"
    "Cutting a hole in a perfectly good canvas
    "Go to the head of the class I laid aside the
    cut rectangle, then picked up the cardboard insert
    with the floating brain on itI went behind the
    easel"Help me glue this in place
    "When did you figure all this out, vato?"
    "I didn't," I said
    "You didn't?" He was looking at me through the
    canvas, like a thousand lookie-loos I'd seen
    peering through a thousand peepholes at
    construction sites in my other lifeSomething's kind of telling me as I go
    alongCome around to this side
    With Wireman's help, the rest of the prep only
    took a couple of minutesHe blocked the rectangle
    475
    with the shirt-cardboardI fished a little tube
    of Elmer's Glue from my breast pocket, and began
    fixing it in placeWhen I came back around, it
    was perfectLooked that way to me, anyway
    I pointed at Wireman's forehead"This is your
    brain," I
    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    5:43 pm
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    “I need to talk to her for a minute, Kyle,” I murmured
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    “It's okay,” I promised“He's not going anywhereI just want to ask you a few questions
    Kyle turned her to face me, and her arms locked around meI pulled her to the far corner of the
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    few inches awayWe sat on the floor, facing the wall
    “Jeez,” Kyle murmured“I didn't think it would be like this
    “How did you find her? And catch her?” I askedThe sobbing girl didn't react as I questioned
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    Friday, December 17th, 2010
    5:43 pm
    @@@@@Images of rich clothing, of shoeshines and
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    "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 bo
    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
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    Friday, December 10th, 2010
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    @@@@@ “We don’t speak Russian either,” admitted
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    “We don’t speak Russian either,” admitted the man, an Englishman, in clipped, guarded tones,
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    “Fine!” Bourne crept over the bed, testing his knee; whatever it was had snapped back“I have
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    “Actually, what outraged me was the goddamned robe!” went on the veteran of El Alamein
    “Fucking disgraceful, I say—forgive me, darling
    “What are you talking about?”
    “The white robe, lad! It had to be Binky’s—the couple across the hall we’re traveling with—he
    must have copped it from that lovely Beau-Rivage in LausanneThe rotten theft is bad enough, but
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    In seconds, Jason had grabbed the Jackal’s weapon and crashed his way into the room across the
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    He lay on the floor bleeding from knife wounds across his stomach and throat
    “I can’t reach anyone!” screamed the woman with thinning gray hair; she was on her knees
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    wouldn’t fire his gun!”
    “Hold the skin together wherever you can,” yelled Bourne, looking over at the telephoneIt was
    intact! He ran to it, and instead of calling the front desk or the operator, he dialed the numbers for
    the suite
    “Krupkin?” cried Alex
    “No, me! First: Carlos is on the staircase—the hallway I went into! Second: a man’s cut up,
    same hallway, seventh door on the right! HurryI’ve got a clear line to the office
    “Where the hell is the KGB team?”
    “They just got hereKrupkin called only seconds ago from the lobby—it’s why I thought you
    were—”
    “I’m going to the staircase!”
    “For God’s sake, why?”
    “Because he’s mine!”
    Jason raced to the door, offering no words of comfort for the hysterical wife; he could not
    summon themHe crashed his way through the exit door, the Jackal’s weapon in his handHe
    started down the staircase, suddenly hearing the sound of his own shoes; he stopped on the seventh
    step and removed both, and then his ankle-length socksThe cool surface of the stone on his feet
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    Floor by floor he descended, following the inevitable rivulets of blood, larger now, no longer to
    be stemmed, for the last wound was too severe to stop by exerting pressureTwice the Jackal had
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    followed by streaks of dark red, as he could not manipulate the exterior locks without the security
    keys
    The second floor, then the first, there were no more! Carlos was trapped! Somewhere in the
    shadows below was the death of the killer who would set him free! Silently, Bourne removed a
    book of Metropole matches from his pocket; he huddled against the concrete wall, tore out a single
    match and, cupping his hands, fired the packetHe threw it over the railing, the weapon in his hand
    ready to explode with continuous rounds of bullets at anything that moved below!
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    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
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