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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:47 am
    @@@@@“What bothered you? What did you
    @@@@@“What bothered you? What did you see?”
    “Figures some bent over, walking slowly, awkwardly—not like you, Alex, incapacitated not
    by injuries but by ageWorn out and old and staying in the darkness of storefronts and side streets
    It happened four or five times between my apartment house and hereTwice I almost stopped and
    called out for one of your men, and then I thought to myself, My God, Doctor, you’re overreacting,
    mistaking a few pathetic homeless people for what they’re not, seeing things that aren’t there
    “Right on!” Conklin whispered emphatically“You saw exactly what was there, MoBecause I
    saw the same, the same kind of old people you saw, and they were pathetic, mostly in beat up
    clothes and who moved slower than I moveWhat does it mean? What do they mean? Who are
    they?”
    FootstepsSlow, hesitant, and through the shadows of the deserted path walked two short men—
    old menAt first glance they, indeed, appeared to be part of the swelling army of indigent
    homeless, yet there was something different about them, a sense of purpose, perhapsThey stopped
    nearly twenty feet away from the bench, their faces in darknessThe old man on the left spoke, his
    voice thin, his accent strange“It is an odd hour and an unusual place for two such well-dressed
    gentlemen to meetIs it fair for you to occupy a place of rest that should be for others not so well
    off as you?”
    “There are a number of unoccupied benches,” said Alex pleasantly“Is this one reserved?”
    “There are no reserved seats here,” replied the second old man, his English clear but not native
    to him“But why are you here?”
    “What’s it to you?” asked Conklin“This is a private meeting and none of your business
    “Business at this hour and in this place?” The first aged intruder spoke while looking around
    “I repeat,” repeated Alex“It’s none of your business and I really think you should leave us
    alone
    “Business is business,” intoned the second old man
    “What in God’s name is he talking about?” whispered the bewildered Panov to Conklin
    “Ground zero,” said Alex under his breath The retired field agent turned his head up
    to the two old me
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    2:47 am
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    She didn't dare stayNot close to him like thatNot even in the
    same room The rain began when she was a little
    more than five miles from Ballyhara: Scarlett úblamed it for the
    wetness on her cheeksOn Wednesday she took Cat to TaraThe
    ancient
    mounds were just cartier watch santos high enough for Cat to feel triumphant when she
    climbed themScarlett watched Cat's recklessness on the run down
    the
    mound and forced herself not to warn her that she might fallShe told
    Cat about Tara, and her family, and the banquets of the High Kings
    Before they left she held the little girl as high as she tiffany 925 could to look
    out over the country of her birth"You're a little Irish Cat, your
    roots go deep here Do you understand anything I'm saying?"
    "No," said CatScarlett put her down so she could runThe strong
    little legs never walked now, always ranThere were
    ancient hidden irregularities under the grass
    She got to her chanel top feet and ran some moreWatching her was healing for
    ScarlettIt made her whole again"Colum, who's this man Parnell?
    People were talking about him at the hunt breakfast, but I couldn't
    make any sense out of what they were saying A Protestant, said
    Colum, and an AngloNobody to concern themScarlett wanted chloe paddington to
    argue
    but she'd learned it was a waste of timeColum never discussed the
    English, especially not the English landowners in Ireland, who were
    known as the Anglo-IrishHe would manage to change the subject
    before
    she knew he was doing itIt bothered her that he wouldn't even
    admit
    that some of the English might be nice Tiffany Bracelets peop
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    2:47 am
    @@@@@ My eyes widened in surprise, but he wasn't
    @@@@@
    My eyes widened in surprise, but he wasn't looking at me
    “Seems like you all use some kind of anesthetic, but that's just a guessNobody was screaming
    in agony or anything, though, so it couldn't be too torturousNo, that was the humans' specialty
    “Those stories you were telling the kid were real interesting
    I stiffened and he laughed lightly“Yeah, I was listeningEavesdropping, I'll admit itI'm not
    sorry–it was great stuff, and you won't talk to me the way you do with JamieI really got a kick
    out of those bats and the plants and spidersGives a man lots to think aboutAlways liked to
    read crazy, out-there stuff, science fiction and whatnotAnd the kid's like
    me–he's read all the books I've got, two, three times apieceMust be a treat for him to get some
    new storiesYou're a good storyteller
    I kept my eyes down, but I felt myself softening, losing my guard a bitLike anyone inside these
    emotional bodies, I was a sucker for flattery
    “Everyone here thinks you hunted us out to turn us over to the Seekers
    The word sent a shock jolting through meMy jaw stiffened and my teeth cut my tongue
    “What other reason could there be?” he went on, oblivious to my reaction or ignoring it“But
    they're just trapped in fixed notions, I thinkI'm the only one with questions I mean, what
    kind of a plan was that, to wander off into the desert without any way to get back?” He
    chuckled“Wandering–guess that's your specialty, eh, Wanda?”
    He leaned toward me and nudged me with one elb
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    2:47 am
    @@@@@A man who was afraid to put his neck out on
    @@@@@A man who was afraid to put his neck out on the line was no damn goodLeading the men was a responsibility he craved; he felt powerful and certain at such momentsHe longed to be in the battle that was taking place inland from the beach, and he resented the decision which left the platoon on an unloading detailHe passed his hand along his gaunt hard cheek and looked silently about him
    Hennessey was standing near the sternAs Croft watched his white silent face, he decided that Hennessey was frightened and it amused himThe boy found it hard to be still; he kept bobbing about in his place, and once or twice he flinched noticeably at a sudden noise; his leg began to itch and he scratched it violentlyThen, as Croft watched, Hennessey pulled his left trouser out of his legging, rolled it up to expose his knee, and with a great deal of care rubbed a little spittle over the irritated red spot on his kneeCroft gazed at the white flesh with its blond hairs, noticed the pains with which Hennessey replaced his trouser in the legging, and felt an odd excitement as if the motions were importantThat boy is too careful, Croft told himself
    And then with a passionate certainty he thought, "Hennessey's going to get killed today He felt like laughing to release the ferment in himThis time he was sure
    But, abruptly, Croft remembered the poker game the preceding night when he had failed to draw his full house, and he was confused and then disgustedYou figure you're getting a little too smart for yourself, he thoughtHis disgust came because he felt he could not trust such emotions, rather than from any conviction that they had no meaning at allHe shook his head and sat back on his haunches, feeling the assault boat race in toward land, his mind empty, waiting for what events would bring
    Martinez had his worst minute just before they landedAll the agonies of the previous night, all the fears he had experienced early that morning had reached their climax in himHe dreaded the moment when the ramp would go down and he would have to get out of the boatHe felt as if a shell would swallow all of them, or a machine gun would be set up before the bow, would begin firing the moment they were exposedNone of the men was talking, and when Martinez closed his eyes, the sound of the water lashing past their craft seemed overwhelming as though he were sinking beneath itHe opened his eyes, pressed his nails desperately into his palms"Buenos Dios," he mutteredThe sweat was dripping from his brow into his eyes, and he wiped it out rou
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
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    Last night it had been hope and smiles, bustle and motion, noise
    and brilliancy, in the drawing-room, and out of the drawing-room,
    and everywhereNow it was languor, and all but solitude
    A good night’s rest improved her spiritsShe could think of William
    the next day more cheerfully; and as the morning afforded her an
    opportunity of talking over Thursday night with MrsGrant and Miss
    Crawford, in a very handsome style, with all the heightenings of imagination,
    and all the laughs of playfulness which are so essential to the
    shade of a departed ball, she could afterwards bring her mind without
    much effort into its everyday state, and easily conform to the tranquillity
    of the gucci hobo horsebit present quiet week
    They were indeed a smaller party than she had ever known there
    for a whole day together, and he was gone on whom the comfort
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    and cheerfulness of every family meeting and every meal chiefly
    dependedBut this must be learned to be enduredHe would soon
    be always gone; and she was thankful that she could now sit in the
    same room with her uncle, hear his voice, receive his questions, and
    even answer them, without such wretched feelings as she had formerly
    known
    “We miss our two young men,” was Sir Thomas’s observation on
    both the first and second day, as they formed their very reduced
    circle after dinner; and in consideration of Fanny’s swimming gold gucci watch eyes,
    nothing more was said on the first day than to drink their good
    health; but on the second it led to something fartherWilliam was
    kindly commended and his promotion hoped for“And there is no
    reason to suppose,” added Sir Thomas, “but that his visits to us may
    now be tolerably frequentAs to Edmund, we must learn to do
    without himThis will be the last winter of his belonging to us, as
    he has done
    “Yes,” said Lady Bertram, “but I wish he was not going away
    They are all going away, I thinkI wish they would stay at home
    This wish was levelled principally at Julia, who had just applied
    for permission to go to town with Maria; and as Sir Thomas thought
    it best for each daughter that the birkin bag hermes permission should be granted,
    Lady Bertram, though in her own good-nature she would not have
    prevented it, was lamenting the change it made in the prospect of
    Julia’s return, which would otherwise have taken place about this
    timeA great deal of good sense followed on Sir Thomas’s side, tending
    to reconcile his wife to the arrangementEverything that a considerate
    parent ought to feel was advanced for her use; and everything
    that an affectionate mother must feel in promoting her
    children’s enjoyment was attributed to her natureLady Bertram
    agreed to it all with a calm “Yes”; and at the end of a quarter of an
    hour’s silent consideration spontaneously observed, “Sir Thomas, omega watches prices I
    have been thinking—and I am very glad we took Fanny as we did,
    for now the others are away we feel the good of it
    Sir Thomas immediately improved this compliment by adding,
    “Very trueWe shew Fanny what a good girl we think her by praising
    her to her face, she is now a very valuable companionIf we
    have been kind to her, she is now quite as necessary to us
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    “Yes,” said Lady Bertram presently; “and it is a comfort to think
    that we shall always have her
    Sir Thomas paused, half smiled, glanced at his niece, and then
    gravely replied, “She will never leave us, I hope, till invited to some
    other home that may reasonably promise her greater happiness than
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    2:47 am
    @@@@@Nevertheless, I have an assignment for you
    @@@@@Nevertheless, I have an assignment for you that will ease your woman’s
    departure for both of youYou will have a holiday in a lovely part of the world, the two of you
    togetherYou will pick up the papers and the money at the usual place
    “Where are we going, if I may ask?”
    “To the Caribbean island of MontserratYour instructions will be delivered to you there at the
    Blackburne AirportFollow them preciselyAgain, if I may ask, what is my objective?”
    “To find and befriend a mother and two children
    “Then what?”
    “Kill them
    Brendan Prefontaine, former federal judge of the first circuit court of Massachusetts, walked out
    of the Boston Five Bank on School Street with fifteen thousand dollars in his pocketIt was a heady
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    58
    experience for a man who had lived an impecunious existence for the past thirty yearsSince his
    release from prison he rarely had more than fifty dollars on his personThis was a very special day
    Yet it was more than very specialIt was also very disturbing because he had never thought for
    an instant that Randolph Gates would pay him a sum anywhere near the amount he had demanded
    Gates had made an enormous error because by acceding to the demand he had revealed the gravity
    of his endeavorsHe had crossed over from ruthless, albeit nonfatal, greed into something
    potentially quite lethalPrefontaine had no idea who the woman and the children were or what their
    relationship was to Lord Randolph of Gates, but whoever they were and whatever it was, Dandy
    Randy meant them no good
    An irreproachable Zeus-like figure in the legal world did not pay a disbarred, discredited,
    deniable alcoholic “scum” like one Brendan Patrick Pierre Prefontaine an outrageous sum of
    money because his soul was with the archangels of heavenRather, that soul was with the disciples
    of LuciferAnd since this was obviously the case, it might be profitable for the scum to pursue a
    little knowledge, for as the bromide declared, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing—frequently
    more so in the eyes of the beholder than in the one possessing scant tidbits of information, so
    slanted as to appear many times moreFifteen thousand today might well become fifty thousand
    tomorrow if—if a scum flew to the island of Montserrat and began asking questions
    Besides, thought the judge, the Irish in him chuckling, the French sector in minor rebellion, he
    had not had a vacation in yearsGood Christ, it was enough keeping body and soul together; who
    thought of an unenforced suspension of the hustle?
    So Brendan Patrick Pierre Prefontaine hailed a taxi, which he had not done sober for at least ten
    years, and directed the skeptical driver to take him to Louis’s men’s store at Faneuil Hall
    “You got the scratch, old man?”
    “More than enough to get you a haircut and cure the acne on your pubescent face, young fellow
    The clothes were off the racks, but they were expensive racks, and after he had shown a roll of
    hundred-dollar bills, the purple-lipped clerk was extremely cooperativ
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    2:47 am
    @@@@@Turn to the Vicereine now and curtseyNow
    @@@@@Turn to the Vicereine now and curtseyNow back, back, back, three
    steps, don't worry, the weight of the train holds it away from your
    bodyNow extend your left armLet the footman have plenty
    of
    time to arrange the train over your arm
    Scarlett's knees obligingly waited until she was seated at one of the
    supper tables before they started tremblingCharlotte made no
    attempt
    to hide her satisfactionShe entered Scarlett's bedroom with the
    stiff squares of white cardboard fanned in her hand"My dear
    Scarlett, you were a dazzling successThese invitations arrived
    before even I was up and dressedState Ball, that's quite special
    Saint Patrick's Ball, that was to be expectedSecond Drawing Room,
    you'll be able to watch other people running the gauntletAnd a small
    dance in the Throne RoomThree-fourths of the peers in Ireland have
    never been invited to one of the small dancesThe terror of being presented was behind her, and
    she was a success! "I guess I won't mind now that I spent last ear's
    wheat crop on all those new clothesLet's go shopping today d
    spend
    this year's crop
    "You won't have timeEleven gentlemen, including the Gentlean
    Usher,
    have written to ask permission to call on youPlus foureen ladies,
    with their daughtersTea time won't be long enoughyou'll have to
    serve coffee and tea in the mornings, tooThe maids reopening your
    drawing room right nowI ordered pink flowers, o wear your brown
    and
    rose plaid taffeta for the morning and the reen velvet faced in pink
    for the afternoonEvans will be here to o your hair as soon as you're
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    2:47 am
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    I grimaced at the floor but let him lead me to the kitchen
    It was a good thing the food was exactly the same thing as always, because if, miraculously, a
    filet mignon or a bag of Cheetos had materialized, I wouldn't have been able to taste a thingIt
    took all my concentration just to make myself swallow–I hated to make even that small sound in
    the dead silence that followed my appearanceThe kitchen wasn't crowded, just mens gucci watches ten people
    lounging against the counters, eating their tough rolls and drinking their watery soupBut I
    killed all conversation againI wondered how long things could last like this
    The answer was exactly four days
    It also took me that long to understand what Jeb was up to, what the motivation was behind
    his switch from the courteous host to the curmudgeonly taskmaster
    The day after turning the soil I spent seeding and cartier pasha watch irrigating the same fieldIt was a different
    group of people than the day before; I imagined there was some kind of rotation of the chores
    hereMaggie was in this group, and the caramel-skinned woman, but I didn't learn her name
    Mostly everyone worked in silenceThe silence felt unnatural–a protest against my presence
    Ian worked with us, when it was clearly not his turn, and this bothered me
    I had to eat in the kitchen againJamie was chanel handbags sale there, and he kept the room from total silenceI
    knew he was too sensitive not to notice the awkward hush, but he deliberately ignored it,
    seeming to pretend that he and Jeb and I were the only people in the roomHe chattered about
    his day in Sharon's class, bragging a little about some trouble he'd gotten into for speaking out
    of turn, and complaining about the chores she'd given him as punishmentJeb chastised chanel pearl him
    halfheartedlyThey both did a very good job of acting normalI had no acting abilityWhen
    Jamie asked me about my day, the best I could do was stare intently at my food and mumble
    one-word answersThis seemed to make him sad, but he didn't push me
    At night it was a different story–he wouldn't let me stop talking until I begged to be allowed to
    sleepJamie had reclaimed his room, taking Jared's side of the bed and insisting that I take chanel sale his
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    2:47 am
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    "No, no, you're too pessimistic," Goldstein told himHe picked up a helmet and rolex watch prices began to use it as a mallet on one of the stakes"If you'll excuse me for saying so, that's no way to look at it He pounded several times with the helmet and then whistled sadly"Very poor steel in these," he said"Look at the way I dented it just hitting in a stake
    Roth smiled a little contemptuouslyGoldstein's dolce sale animation irritated him"Aaah, it's all very well to talk," he said, "but you never do get a break in the ArmyLook at the ship we came over onThey had us packed in like sardines
    "I suppose they did the best they could," Goldstein suggested
    "The best they could? I don't think so He paused as if to edit his woes and select the omega quartz most telling ones"Did you notice how they treated the officers? They slept in staterooms when we were jammed in the hold like pigsIt's to make them feel superior, a chosen groupThat's the same device Hitler uses when he makes the Germans think they're superior Roth felt as if he were on the edge of something rolex daytona cosmograph profound
    Goldstein held up his hand"But that's why we can't afford to have such an attitudeWe're fighting against that Then, as if his words had rubbed against a bruised part of his mind, he frowned angrily and added, "Aaah, I don't know, they're just a bunch of Anti-Semiten
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    2:47 am
    @@@@@ “The Miss Owens—you liked them, did not
    @@@@@
    “The Miss Owens—you liked them, did not you?”
    “Yes, very wellPleasant, good-humoured, unaffected girlsBut I
    am spoilt, Fanny, for common female societyGood-humoured,
    unaffected girls will not do for a man who has been used to sensible
    womenThey are two distinct orders of beingYou and Miss
    Crawford have made me too nice
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    Mansfield Park
    Still, however, Fanny was oppressed and wearied; he saw it in her
    looks, it could not be talked away; and attempting it no more, he
    led her directly, with the kind authority of a privileged guardian,
    into the house
    309
    Jane Austen
    CHAPTER XXXVI
    EDMUND NOW BELIEVED himself perfectly acquainted with all that
    Fanny could tell, or could leave to be conjectured of her sentiments,
    and he was satisfiedIt had been, as he before presumed, too hasty a
    measure on Crawford’s side, and time must be given to make the
    idea first familiar, and then agreeable to herShe must be used to
    the consideration of his being in love with her, and then a return of
    affection might not be very distant
    He gave this opinion as the result of the conversation to his father;
    and recommended there being nothing more said to her: no
    farther attempts to influence or persuade; but that everything should
    be left to Crawford’s assiduities, and the natural workings of her
    own mind
    Sir Thomas promised that it should be soEdmund’s account of
    Fanny’s disposition he could believe to be just; he supposed she had
    all those feelings, but he must consider it as very unfortunate that
    she had; for, less willing than his son to trust to the future, he could
    not help fearing that if such very long allowances of time and habit
    were necessary for her, she might not have persuaded herself into
    receiving his addresses properly before the young man’s inclination
    for paying them were overThere was nothing to be done, however,
    but to submit quietly and hope the best
    The promised visit from “her friend,” as Edmund called Miss
    Crawford, was a formidable threat to Fanny, and she lived in continual
    terror of itAs a sister, so partial and so angry, and so little
    scrupulous of what she said, and in another light so triumphant and
    secure, she was in every way an object of painful alarmHer displeasure,
    her penetration, and her happiness were all fearful to encounter;
    and the dependence of having others present when they met was
    Fanny’s only support in looking forward to itShe absented herself as
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    little as possible from Lady Bertram, kept away from the East room,
    and took no solitary walk in the shrubbery, in her caution to avoid
    any sudden attackShe was safe in the breakfast-room, with her aunt,
    when Miss Crawford did come; and the first misery over, and Miss
    Crawford looking and speaking with much less particularity of expression
    than she had anticipated, Fanny began to hope there would
    be nothing worse to be endured than a half-hour of moderate agitation
    But here she hoped too much; Miss Crawford was not the
    slave of opportunityShe was determined to see Fanny alone, and
    therefore said to her tolerably soon, in a low voice, “I must speak to
    you for a few minutes somewhere”; words that Fanny felt all over
    her, in all her pulses and all her nervesDenial was impossibleHer
    habits of ready submission, on the contrary, made her almost instantly
    rise and lead the way out of the roomShe did it with wretched
    feelings, but it was inevitable
    They were no sooner in the hall than all restraint of countenance
    was over on Miss Crawford’s
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
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    into Bourne’s left cheek“We don’t want no bad mon here! Our boss-mon the best! You don’t scare
    me!” The steward crashed his knee into Jason’s groin
    “You young son of a bitch!” cried Le Caméléon, slapping the youngster’s face back and forth
    while grabbing his chanel knockoff aching testicles with his left hand“I’m his friend, his brother! Will you cut it
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    “Oh?” said the large, youthful, obviously athletic steward, a touch of resentment in his wide,
    embarrassed brown eyes“You are the mon with Boss Saint Jay’s sister?”
    “I’m her husbandWho the fuck are you?”
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    you wish to fight more? I think I can beat you! You have gray in your hair—”
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    “Why?”
    “The lifts, sirOur very fast elevatorsWhy would guests use the stairs?”
    “What’s your name?” asked Bourne, replacing his hat and, sunglasses
    “Like in Moby Dick?”
    “I do not know such a person, sir
    “Why?”
    “I’m not sureYou’re a very good fighter
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    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    2:45 am
    @@@@@There was no sound, but I could feel the
    @@@@@There was no sound,
    but I could feel the snapI rubbed my arm against
    my side and could feel the rubI lowered my right
    hand, long since burned in the incinerator of a St
    Paul hospital, to the arm of my chair and drummed
    the fingersNo sound, but the sensation was there:
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    skin on wickerI would have sworn to it in the
    name of God
    All at once I wanted to draw
    I thought about the big room upstairs, but Little
    Pink seemed too far to goI went into the living
    room and took an Artisan pad off a stack of them
    sitting on the coffee tableMost of my art
    supplies were upstairs, but there were a few boxes
    of colored pencils in one of the drawers of the
    living room desk, and I took one of those, as well
    Back in the Florida room (which I would always
    think of as a porch), I sat down and closed my
    eyesI listened to the waves do their work
    beneath me, lifting the shells and turning them
    into new patterns, each one different from the one
    beforeWith my eyes shut, that grating was more
    than ever like talk: the water giving temporary
    tongue to the edge of the landAnd the land
    itself was temporary, because if you took the
    geological view, Duma wouldn't last longNone of
    the Keys would; in the end the Gulf would take
    them all and new ones would rise in new locations
    It was probably true of Florida itselfThe land
    was low, and on loan
    128
    Ah, but that sound was restful
    Without opening my eyes, I felt for Ilse's e-mail
    and ran the tips of my fingers over it againI
    did this with my right handThen I opened my eyes,
    brushed the e-mail printout aside with the hand
    that was there, and pulled the Artisan pad onto my
    lapI flipped back the cover, shook all twelve of
    the pre-sharpened Venus pencils onto the table in
    front of me, and began to drawI had an idea I
    meant to draw Ilse - who had I been thinking of,
    after all? - and thought I'd make a spectacularly
    bad job of it, because I hadn't attempted a single
    human figure since starting to draw againBut it
    wasn't Ilse, and it wasn't badNot great, maybe,
    not Rembrandt (not even Norman Rockwell), but not
    bad
    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
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    “Ian?”
    “I'll protect them with my own life, Wanda
    “Jeb?”
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    5

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