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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    10:18 pm
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    suddenly, driving her crazyShe stood up abruptly
    I'll give Suellen her check after dinner, soon as Will goes back to the
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    at Fairhill and MimosaThey'd never forgive me if I didn't come by to
    say helloThen tonight I'll pack my things, and tomorrow I'll take
    the morning trainTara's not home for me any
    more,
    no matter how much I love itIt's time for me to goThe road to
    Fairhill was rutted and weed grownScarlett remembered when it gucci ladies watches was
    scraped every week and sprinkled with water to keep the dust down
    Time was, she thought sadly, there were at least ten plantations in
    visiting distance, and people coming and going all the timeNow
    there's only Tara left, and the Tarletons and the FontainesAll the
    rest are just burnt chimneys or fallen-in wallsI really have to chloe black get
    back to the cityEverything in the County makes me sadThe slow
    old
    horse and the buggy's springs were almost as bad as the roadsShe
    thought of her upholstered carriage and matched team, with Elias to
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    She needed to go home to AtlantaThe noisy cheerfulness at Fairhill
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    talk about her horses, and interested in nothing else
    The stables, Scarlett noticed, had a new roofThe house roof had
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    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
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    “He’s rather large—tall, that is—and in his late forties or early fifties and—”
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    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    10:19 pm
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    I knew that look wellI'd seen it often in my own
    mirror"Do you promise? Big swear? Mother's
    name?"
    "Big swear, mother's name
    She went with her mother, casting one more look
    back over her shoulder and uttering one more
    bereft wail before starting up the steps to her
    houseI knelt beside Gandalf, holding onto the
    Hummer's fender and going down as I always did,
    painfully and listing severely to the left, trying
    to keep my right knee from bending any more than
    it absolutely had toStill, I voiced my own
    little cry of pain, and I wondered if I'd be able
    to get up again without helpIt might not be
    forthcoming from MrsFevereau; she walked over to
    the lefthand side of the street with her legs
    stiff and wide apart, then bent at the waist as if
    bowing to royalty, and vomited in the gutterShe
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    held the hand with the cigarette in it off to one
    side as she did it
    I turned my attention to GandalfHe had been
    struck in the hindquartersHis spine was crushed
    Blood and shit oozed sluggishly from between his
    broken rear legsHis eyes turned up to me and in
    them I saw a horrible expression of hopeHis
    tongue crept out and licked my inner left wrist
    His tongue was dry as carpet, and coldGandalf
    was going to die, but maybe not soon enough
    Monica would come out again soon, and I didn't
    want him alive to lick her wrist when she did
    I understood what I had to doThere was no one to
    see me do itMonica and her mother were insideFevereau's back was still turnedIf others
    on this little stub of street had come to their
    windows (or out on their lawns), the Hummer
    blocked their view of me sitting beside the dog
    with my bad right leg awkwardly outstretchedI
    had a few moments, but only a few, and if I
    stopped to think about what I was doing, my chance
    would be lost
    So I took Gandalf's upper body in my arms and
    without a pause I'm back at the Sutton Avenue site,
    46
    where The Freemantle Company is getting ready to
    build a forty-story bank building
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    10:19 pm
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    We heard Wes shouting at the same timeHis voice came from the end of the tunnel, getting
    closer with each word
    “They're back! Wanda, they're back!”
    It took me less than a second to process, and then I was sprintingBehind me, Ian mumbled
    something about wasted effort
    I nearly knocked Wes down
    And I was off againI flew into the big garden room with my eyes already searchingIt wasn't
    hard to find themJamie was standing at the front of a group of people near the entrance to the
    southern tunnel
    “Hey, Wanda!” he yelled, waving
    Trudy held his arm as I ran around the edges of the field, as if she were holding him back from
    running to meet me
    I grabbed his shoulders with both hands and pulled him to me“Oh, Jamie!”
    “Did ya miss me?”
    “Just a tiny bitWhere is everyone? Is everyone home? Is everyone okay?” Besides Jamie,
    Trudy was the only person here who was back from the raidEveryone else in the little
    crowd–Lucina, Ruth Ann, Kyle, Travis, Violetta, Reid–was welcoming them home
    “Everyone's back and well,” Trudy assured me
    My eyes swept the big cave“Where are they?”
    “Uh… getting cleaned up, unloading…”
    I wanted to offer my help–anything that would get me to where Jared was so I could see with
    my own eyes that he was safe–but I knew I wouldn't be allowed to see where the goods were
    coming in
    “You look like you need a bath,” I told Jamie, rumpling his dirty, knotted hair without letting
    go of him
    “He's supposed to go lie down,” Trudy said
    “Trudy,”Jamie muttered, giving her a dark look
    Trudy glanced at me quickly, then looked away
    “Lie down… ?” I stared at Jamie, pulling back to get a good look at himHe didn't seem
    tired–his eyes were bright, and his cheeks flushed under his tanMy eyes raked over him once
    and then froze on his right leg
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    10:11 pm
    @@@@@The last hundred miles he always drives with
    @@@@@The last hundred miles he always drives with his teeth clenchedHe drinks a lot, drifting along the bars on Ninth and Tenth Avenues, and sometimes he spends his free time in one movie house after another, the tawdry second-runs on 42nd Street
    One night in a bar he buys an ordinary seaman's card for ten bucks from a drunk who is about to go under, and he quits his jobBut after a week of hanging around South Street, he gets tired of it and goes on a long drunkAfter a week, when his money is gone, he sells the seaman's card for five bucks and keeps going for an afternoon on the whisky it buys
    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 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 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
    Maggie Kennedy was a fine figure of a woman, she said to me, now, what was it she said?
    I told Tommy Muldoon he had no call to be running me in, and when I got done, he let me go I'll tell you thatThey're afraid of me ever since I broke Ricchio's jaw, you know he was the precinct sergeant, back in, well, now wait a minute and I'll tell you the date, I broke his jaw with one punch back in a New Year's night eight year ago, 1924 it was, no, wait a moment back in 1933 that's closer to itHey, you rummies, pipe down goddammit we got some paying guests in the next room
    They're silent for a moment and then one of them says in his low mumbling voice, You ain't so smart, young feller, and ifen you don't shut your mouth I'll be obliged to whop you
    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 ne
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
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    Money could do anything"How will you decorate the wagon, Mrs
    Butler?" asked KershawThe question opened up a hundred
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    hours and hours-fill up lots of evenings-thinking about how to make all
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    costume for the Ball, tooWhat a lot of time it was going to take!
    She'd have to go through all her fashion magazines again, have to find
    out what people were wearing, have to select fabric, schedule fittings,
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    Surely that didn't mean she had to wear black for a masquerade ball
    She'd never been to one, she black quilted bag didn't know what the rules wereBut
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    did, to be disguisedThen she definitely should not wear blackThe
    Ball was sounding better every minuteScarlett hastened through her
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    I'll let you know tomorrow what I will beMarie threw up her
    hands"But I won't have time to make your gown, MrsI've
    had to find two extra seamstresses as it is, and I still don't see how
    I'm going to finish in time There's just no way on earth I can add
    another costume to the ones I've already promised Scarlett
    dismissed
    the woman's refusal with a wave of her tiffany cross
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    10:16 pm
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    207
    from him in an armchair, drinking a gin and tonicThe young man was slender, dark-haired and
    striking
    “You know, Frankie, I’m not just bright, I’m brilliant, you know what I mean? I pick up on
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    “That’s right, Lou
    “And there this Bourne is in Paris, France, a couple of blocks away from a real big impediment,
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    Capisce?”
    “I capisco, Lou,” said the clean-cut young man from the chair“You’re real intelligent
    “You don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about, you zabaglioneI could be talking to myself,
    so why not? So I get my twelve and I figure let’s slam the loaded dice right into the felt, see?”
    “I see, Lou
    “We got to eliminate this asshole general because he’s the impediment to the fancy crowd who
    needs us, right?”
    “Right on, LouAn imped—an imped—”
    “Don’t bother, zabaglioneSo I say to myself, let’s blow him away and say the hot cannoli did
    it, got it?”
    “Oh, yeah, LouYou’re real intelligent
    “So we get rid of the impediment and put the cannoli, this Jason Bourne, who’s not all there, in
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    right?”
    “Hey, that’s terrific, LouI gotta say it, I really respect you
    “Forget respect, bello ragazzoThe rules are different in this houseCome on over and make
    good love to me
    The young man got up from the chair and walked over to the couch
    Marie sat in the back of the plane drinking coffee from a plastic cup, trying desperately to recall
    every place—every hiding and resting place—she and David had used thirteen years a
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    10:20 pm
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    It was bright in the high-ceilinged roomThe room itself was not crowdedDoc or Jared had
    kept everyone outI was vaguely aware of Jared, leaning against the far wall with his hands
    clasped behind him–a posture he assumed only when he was really worriedDoc knelt beside
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    Why had I left him?
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    “Wanda,” Jamie exhaled when he saw me He took a deep breath
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    “Stupid,” he said, grinningCan you believe this?” He chanel classic bag gestured to his leg
    I found a wet rag on his pillow and wiped it across his forehead
    “You're going to be fine,” I promisedI was surprised at how fierce my voice soundedBut Jared wouldn't let me come talk to you His face was suddenly
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    10:11 pm
    @@@@@They were the first letters the men had
    @@@@@They were the first letters the men had received in several weeks, and for a night it relieved the changeless pattern of their livesOne of the infrequent rations of beer was given out the same night, and the men finished their three cans quickly, and sat about without saying very muchThe beer had been far too inadequate to make them drunk; it made them only moody and reflective, it opened the gate to all their memories, and left them sad, hungering for things they could not name

    On the night they got their mail, Red drank his beer with Wilson and Gallagher, and did not return to his tent until darkHe had received no letters, which did not surprise him since he had not written to anyone in over a year, but he had felt a trace of disappointmentHe had never written to Lois, so he never heard from her; she didn't even know his addressBut once in a while, usually on mail-call nights, he had a momentary and irrational little hopeThe business with Lois was dead, but even so
    His depression had increased while he was with the other menGallagher was busy writing to his wife, leafing through the fifteen letters that had come from her in order to answer some of her questions, and Wilson had been complaining about his wife"Ah gave that damn woman lovin' she'll never forget, and now she's always fussin' over why Ah don' send some o' my pay
    "You're gonna die in jail," Red had snorted
    By the time he returned to his own tent, he was very depressedAt the entrance he kicked aside an empty beer can and crawled into the holeAs he straightened his twisted blankets in the dark, he swore a little"It's just like the goddam Army," he said to Wyman, "three cans of beerThey got more ways to tease a man
    Wyman twisted over in his bedding, and spoke up softly"I only drank one of my beersWhy don't you take the other two, Red?"
    "Well, thanks, kidA tacit friendship had developed between them since they had been bunking together, but Wyman was making more and more overtures latelyYou start buddy-buddying with 'em and they get knocked off, Red thoughtMore and more Wyman reminded him of Hennessey"You better drink the beer yourself, kid," he said, "they ain't gonna give 'em out again for a while
    "Naw, I don't like beer m
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    10:11 pm
    @@@@@The fact is that I am an appallingly bad
    @@@@@The fact is that I am an appallingly bad driverSo
    whenever I take the carriage out, I'm required by my humanitarian
    husband to bedeck it in bells, as advance warning to people to get out
    of my way
    "Rather like a leper," offered Mrs"I shall ignore that,"
    Sally said with an air of injured dignityShe smiled at Scarlett, a
    smile of such genuine good will that Scarlett felt warmed by it"I do
    hope," she said, "that you'll call on me whenever you need the
    brougham, despite what you've seenBrewton, you're very kindThe fact is, I adore careening through the streets,
    scattering scallywags and carpetbaggers to the four winds
    But I'm monopolizing youLet me present Edward Cooper before he
    expires Scarlett responded automatically to the gallantries of
    Edward Cooper, smiling to create the beguiling dimple at the corner of
    her mouth and shamming embarrassment at his compliments while
    inviting
    more of them with her eyesCooper," she said, "how you
    do
    run onI declare you're liable to turn my headI'm just a country
    girl from Clayton County, Georgia, and I don't know what to make of a
    sophisticated Charleston gentleman like you
    "Miss Eleanor, please forgive me," she heard a new voice say
    Scarlett turned and drew in a sharp breathThere was a girl in the
    doorway, a young girl with shining brown hair that grew in a widow's
    peak above her soft brown eyes"I'm so sorry to be late," the girl
    continuedHer voice was soft, a little breathlessShe was wearing a
    brown dress with white linen collar and cuffs and an old-fashioned
    bonnet covered in brown silkShe looks for all the world like Melanie
    when I first knew her, Scarlett thoughtLike a soft little brown
    birdCould she be a cousin? I never heard the Hamiltons had any kin
    in Charleston"You're not late at all, Anne," said Eleanor Butler
    "Come have some tea, you looked chilled to the b
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    10:24 pm
    @@@@@“You’re used to that nonexistent foot of
    @@@@@“You’re used to that nonexistent foot of yours, but I haven’t quite adjusted to
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    312
    “Mo!” shouted a woman’s voice from a marble portico aboveThe figure waved her arms
    beneath the pillared, overhanging roof of a grave so large it looked like a minor mausoleum
    “Marie?” yelled Panov, rushing ahead of Conklin
    “That’s nice!” roared Alex, limping with difficulty up the wet slippery grass“You hear the
    sound of a female and suddenly you’re unrapedYou need a shrink, you phony!”
    The embraces were meant; a family was togetherWhile Panov and Marie spoke quietly, Jason
    Bourne took Conklin aside to the edge of the short marble roof, the rain now harshThe former
    candlelight procession below, the flickering flames now gone, was half scattered, half holding its
    position by a gravesite“I didn’t mean to choose this place, Alex,” said Jason“But with that crowd
    down there I couldn’t think of another
    “Remember the gatehouse and that wide path to the parking lot? I was out of
    ammunition and you could have blown my head apart
    “You’re wrong, how many times have I told you? I couldn’t have killed youIt was in your
    eyes; even though I wasn’t able to see them clearly I knew what was thereAnger and confusion,
    but, above all, confusion
    “That’s never been a reason not to kill a man who tries to kill you
    “It is if you can’t rememberThe memory may be gone but not the fragments, not the—well, for
    me they were In and out, in and out, but there
    Conklin looked up at Bourne, a sad grin on his face“The pulsating bit,” he said
    “Probably,” said Jason as both men in unison looked back at Marie and Panov“She’s talking
    about me, you know that, don’t you?”
    “Why not? She’s concerned and he’s concerned
    “I hate to think how many more concerns I’ll give them
    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    10:21 pm
    @@@@@ "Of course not, I had to get some art
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    "Of course not, I had to get some art supplies
    first," I said, and Mary laughed herself into a
    coughing fit that she washed away with a sip of
    Scotch
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    "If thirty paintings in three months is what
    almost getting crushed to death does," she said
    when she could talk again, "maybe I ought to find
    me a crane
    "You wouldn't want to," I said I
    got up, went to the window, and looked down on
    Adalia Street"This is some place you've got
    here
    She joined me, and we looked out togetherThe
    sidewalk café directly across and seven stories
    below might have been airlifted in from New
    OrleansA woman strolled up the
    sidewalk eating what looked like a baguette, the
    hem of her red skirt swirlingSomewhere someone
    was playing a twelve-bar guitar blues, every note
    ringing clear"Tell me something, Edgar - when
    you look out there, does what you see interest you
    as an artist or as the builder you used to be?"
    "Both," I saidDavis Islands is
    entirely artificial - the brainchild of a man
    named Dave DavisHe was Jay Gatsby, Florida-style
    Have you heard of him?"
    I shook my head
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    "That just proves that fame's a fleeting thing
    During the Roaring Twenties, Davis was a god down
    here on the Suncoast
    She waved an arm at the tangled streets below; the
    bangles on her scrawny wrist jangled; somewhere
    not too distant, a church-bell marked the hour of
    two
    "He dredged the whole thing from swampland at the
    mouth of the Hillsborough RiverTalked the Tampa
    city fathers into moving both the hospital and the
    radio station here, back when radio was a bigger
    deal than health careHe built strange and
    beautiful apartment complexes in a time when the
    concept of an apartment complex was unknownHe
    put up hotels and swank nightclubsHe threw the
    dough around, married a beauty contest winner,
    divorced her, married her againHe was worth
    millions when a million dollars was worth what
    twelve million is todayAnd one of his best
    friends lived just down the coast on Duma KeyFamiliar with that name?"
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    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
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    Friday, December 17th, 2010
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    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
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    Friday, December 10th, 2010
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    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
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    Monday, December 6th, 2010
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    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
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