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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    10:16 pm
    @@@@@It is mine, no matter what the law says, and
    @@@@@It is mine, no matter what the law says, and it'll
    be Wade's some day, I'll see to that, no matter what it takes
    Scarlett rested her head against the split leather covering on the old
    sofa in the small room from which Ellen O 'Hara had quietly ruled the
    plantationThere seemed to be a lingering trace of her mother's
    lemon
    verbena toilet water, even after all these years
    This was the peacefulness she had come to findNever mind the
    changes, the shabbinessTara was still Tara, still homeAnd the
    heart of it was here, in Ellen's roomA slamming door shattered the
    quietScarlett heard Ella and Susie coming through the hall,
    quarrelling about somethingShe had to get away, she couldn't face
    noise and conflictShe wanted to see the fields
    anyhowThey were all healed, rich and red the way they'd always
    been
    She walked quickly across the weedy lawn and past the cow shed
    She'd
    never get over her aversion to cows, not if she lived to be a
    hundred
    Nasty sharp-horned thingsAt the edge of the first field she leaned
    on the fence and breathed in the rich ammonia odor of newly turned
    earth and manureFunny how in the city manure was so smelly and
    messy, while in the country it was a farmer's perfumeWill sure is a
    good farmerHe's the best thing that ever happened to TaraNo
    matter what I might have done, we'd never have made it if he hadn't
    stopped on his way home to Florida and decided to stayHe fell in
    love
    with this land the way other men fall in love with a womanAnd he's
    not even Irish! Until Will came along I always thought only a
    brogue-talking Irishman like Pa could get so worked up about the
    land
    On the far side of the field Scarlett saw Wade helping Will and Big Sam
    mend a downed piece of fenceGood for him to be learning, she
    thought
    She watched the boy and the men working together for several
    minute
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    10:18 pm
    @@@@@ The monk arched in silhouette, then fell,
    @@@@@
    The monk arched in silhouette, then fell, his body tumbling, rolling, sprawling down the steps
    carved out of volcanic rock, finally lurching over the edge and plummeting to the sand below
    Bourne raced down the awkward, irregular stone staircase, the two commandos behind himHe
    reached the beach, raced over to the corpse, and pulled the drenched hood away from the faceIn
    horror, he looked at the black features of Samuel, the brother priest of Tranquility Isle, the Judas
    who had sold his soul to the Jackal for thirty pieces of silver
    Suddenly, in the distance, there was the roar of powerful dual engines as a huge speedboat
    lurched out of a shadowed section of the cove and sped for a break in the reefsThe beam of a
    searchlight shot out, firing the barriers of rock protruding above the choppy black water, its wash
    illuminating the fluttering ensign of the government’s drug fleetThe Jackal was no
    chameleon, but he had changed! He had aged, grown thinner and bald—he was not the sharp,
    broad, full-headed muscular image of Jason’s memoryOnly the indistinct dark Latin features
    remained, the face and the unfamiliar expanse of bare skin above burned by the sunHe was gone!
    The boat’s motors screamed in unison as the craft breached a precarious opening in the reef and
    burst out into open waterThen the words in heavily accented English, metallically spewing from
    the distant loudspeaker, echoed within the tropical cove
    “Paris, Jason Bourne! Paris, if you dare! Or shall it be a certain minor university in Maine, Dr
    Webb?”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    173
    Bourne, his neck wound ripped open, collapsed in the lapping waves, his blood trickling into the
    sea
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    174
    18
    Steven DeSole, keeper of the deepest secrets for the Central Intelligence Agency, forced his
    overweight frame out of the driver’s seatHe stood in the deserted parking lot of the small shopping
    center in Annapolis, Maryland, where the only source of light was the storefront neons of a closed
    gas station, with a large German shepherd sleeping in the windowDeSole adjusted his steelrimmed
    glasses and squinted at his watch, barely able to see the radium handsAs near as he could
    determine, it was between 3:15 and 3:20 in the morning, which meant he was early and that was
    goodHe had to adjust his thoughts; he was unable to do so while driving, as his severe night
    blindness necessitated complete concentration on the road, and hiring a taxi or a driver was out of
    the question
    The information was at first His name is
    Webb, the caller had saidThank you, he had repliedA sketchy description was given, one fitting
    several million men, so he had thanked the informer again and hung up the phoneBut then, in the
    recesses of his analyst’s mind, by profession and training a warehouse for both essential and
    incidental data, an alarm went offamnesia? A clinic in Virginia years agoA man
    more dead than alive had been flown down from a hospital in New York, the medical file so
    maximum classified it could not even be shown to the Oval OfficeYet interrogation specialists
    talk in dark corners, as often to relieve frustration as to impress a listener, and he had heard about a
    recalcitrant, unmanageable patient, an amnesiac they called “Davey” and sometimes just a short,
    sharp, hostile “Webb,” formerly a member of Saigon’s infamous Medusa, and a man they
    suspected of feigning his loss of memor
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    10:19 pm
    @@@@@ One other thing occurred in my other life
    @@@@@
    One other thing occurred in my other life before I
    slipped through that door, thoughIt was what
    happened to Monica Goldstein's Jack Russell
    Terrier, Gandalf
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    If you've been picturing my convalescent retreat
    as a lakeside cottage standing in splendid
    isolation at the end of a lonely dirt road in the
    north woods, you better think again - we're
    talking your basic suburbiaOur place by the lake
    stood at the end of Aster Lane, a paved street
    running from East Hoyt Avenue to the waterOur
    closest neighbors were the Goldsteins
    In the middle of October, I finally took Kathi
    Green's advice and began to walkThese were not
    the Great Beach Walks I took later, and I came
    back from even these short outings with my bad hip
    crying for mercy (and more than once with tears
    standing in my eyes), but they were steps in the
    right directionI was returning from one of these
    walks when MrsFevereau hit Monica's dog
    I was three-quarters of the way home when the
    Fevereau woman went past me in her ridiculous
    mustard-colored HummerAs always, she had her
    cell phone in one hand and a cigarette in the
    other; as always she was going too fastI barely
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    noticed, and I certainly didn't see Gandalf dash
    into the street up ahead, concentrating only on
    Monica, coming down the other side of the street
    in Full Girl ScoutI was concentrating on my
    reconstructed hipAs always near the end of my
    short strolls, this so-called medical marvel felt
    packed with roughly ten thousand tiny points of
    broken glass
    Then tires yowled, and a little girl's scream
    joined them: "GANDALF, NO!"
    For a moment I had a clear and unearthly vision of
    the crane that had almost killed me, the world I'd
    always lived in suddenly eaten up by a yellow much
    brighter than MrsFevereau's Hummer, and black
    letters floating in it, swelling, getting larger:
    LINK-BELT
    Then Gandalf began to scream, too, and the
    flashback - what DrKamen would have called a
    recovered memory, I suppose - was goneUntil that
    afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't
    known dogs could scream
    I broke into a lurching, crabwise run, pounding
    the sidewalk with my red crutchI'm sure it would
    have appeared ludicrous to an onlooker, but no one
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    was paying any attention to meMonica Goldstein
    was kneeling in the middle of the street beside
    her dog, which lay in front of the Hummer's high,
    boxy grilleHer face was white above her forestgreen
    uniform, from which a sash of badges and
    medals hungThe end of this sash was soaking in a
    spreading pool of Gandalf's bloodFevereau half-jumped and half-fell from the
    Hummer's ridiculously high driver's seat
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    10:19 pm
    @@@@@I was never really aware of him before
    @@@@@I was never really aware of him before thatHe's too young
    for me, but what does that matter here?” She laughed again“It's strange how life and love go
    onI didn't expect thatKind of funny how that happens,” Ian agreedI hadn't heard him returnHe slung his
    arm around my shouldersYou do know Wes has been infatuated with you
    since he first got here, right?”
    “So he says“Then you're the only oneSo, Wanda, how about some one-on-one while we're
    waiting?”
    I could feel Melanie's wordless enthusiasm
    He let me have the ball first, holding back, hugging the goal areaMy first shot cut between
    him and the post, scoringI rushed him when he kicked off, and got the ball back
    He's letting us win,Mel grumbled
    Tell him he's playing like a girl
    “Playing like a girl
    He laughed, and I slipped the ball away from him againThe taunt wasn't enoughI had an
    inspiration then, and I shot the ball through his goal, guessing it would probably be the last time
    I got to do it don't like this idea
    I'll bet it works, though
    I put the ball back at center field“You win, and you can sleep in my room while they're gone
    I needed a good night's rest With a grunt, he launched the ball past me so hard that it rebounded off the
    distant, invisible wall behind my goal and came back to
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    10:11 pm
    @@@@@ She slips his dollar under the pillowEasy,
    @@@@@ She slips his dollar under the pillowEasy, Red, momma's had a long hard day
    The throe quivers along his back, leaves his loins charged and sickly
    How about one on the house?
    Aw, now, honey, you know what Eddie would do if he found us girls givin' it away
    He dresses quickly, feeling her arm on his shoulderI'm sorry, Red, listen, you come up next time, and I'll talk a little French to you, just between you and me, okay?
    At this moment her mouth is soft, and her breasts seem swollenHe touches her nipple for a moment; counterfeit of passion, it strains against his fingerYou're a good kid, Pearl
    The light bulb is naked, and it flares in his eyes cruellyHe inhales her powder, the sweet sweat of her armpits
    How'd you get started, Pearl?
    I'll tell ya over a glass of beer someday
    Outside, the air is cold like a tart and icy appleHe feels a deep melancholy, pleasurable and extensive, but when he is in his room he cannot sleep
    I been in this town too long(The brown bare hills deepening in the twilightThe night rolls away into the west WHERE IS THE BEAUTY WE LOST IN OUR YOUTH?
    He gets up and looks out the windowJesus, I feel old, twenty-three and I'm an old manAfter a time he falls asleep
    In the morning the sweat eddies corrosively in his eyes, and the steam erupts from the dish racksRub the lipstick loose before the glasses go in
    I guess I'll be moving againIt's no good having it steady payBut this time there is less hope in it

    A park bench is really too small for a man to sleep comfortably
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    10:11 pm
    @@@@@Who ever heard of Queen Victoria wearing
    @@@@@Who ever heard of Queen Victoria wearing a
    colored
    cape?" Scarlett frowned
    What on earth were they talking about? She quietly descended the
    ladder and walked on tiptoe to press her ear against the wall"No,
    ma'am," she heard the clerk say"We don't get much call for
    velvet
    "Just what I should have expected
    "As long as we're here, maybe I can find the feathers I need for my
    Pocahontas," Maybelle was "NonsenseWe should never
    have
    come hereSuppose someone saw usMerriwether's tread was
    heavy but rapidShe slammed the door behind herScarlett climbed
    up
    the ladder againAll her Christmas spirit was goneSomeone was
    having a costume party, and she wasn't invitedShe wished she'd let
    Ashley break his neck in Melanie's grave! She found the box she was
    looking for and threw it down to the floor, where it burst, scattering
    the brightly colored fans in a wide arc"Now you pick them up and
    dust off every single one of them," she ordered
    She'd rather die than start boohooing in front of her own clerksThe
    day's newspaper was on the seat of her carriage
    She'd been too busy with the decorations to read it as yetAnd she
    didn't much care about reading it now, but it would hide her face from
    any nosybody looking in at herScarlett straightened out the bend in
    it and opened it to the center page for "Our Charleston Letter It
    was all about the Washington Race Course, newly reopened, and the
    upcoming Race Day in JanuaryScarlett skimmed over the rapturous
    descriptions of Race Weeks before the War, the customary Charleston
    claims to have had the finest, most elaborate everything, and the
    predictions that the races to come would equal their predecessors if
    not surpass themAccording to the correspondent, there would be
    parties all day every day and a ball every night for weeks"And Rhett
    Butler at every one of them, I'll bet," Scarlett mutteredShe threw
    the newspaper on the fl
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    10:16 pm
    dior saddle,omega replica watches,gucci women...
    dior saddle,omega replica watches,gucci women watches,prada messenger,tiffany replica@@@@@He told me that he thinks he’s found a cave—his word, not
    mine—where he’s convinced he can track the JackalHe didn’t say where it is, and God knows
    when he’ll call me again
    “I sent our man at the embassy over to the Pont-Royal, asking for SimonWhat they told you is
    trueSimon checked in, went out, and never came backWhere is he?”
    “Staying out of sightBernardine had an idea, but it dior saddle blew up in his faceHe thought he could
    quietly close in on Bourne by circulating the license number of the rental car, but it wasn’t picked
    up at the garage and we both agree it won’t beHe doesn’t trust anybody now, not even me, and
    considering his history, he has every right not to
    Holland’s eyes were cold and angry“You’re not lying to me, are you, Conklin?”
    “Why would I lie at omega replica watches a time like this, about a friend like this?”
    “That’s not an answer, it’s a question
    “Then no, I’m not lyingI don’t know where he is And, in truth, Alex did not
    “So your idea is to do nothing
    “There’s nothing we can doSooner or later he’ll call me
    “Have you any idea what a Senate investigating committee will say a couple of weeks or months
    down the road when all this explodes, and gucci women watches it will explode? We covertly send a man known to be
    ‘Jason Bourne’ over to Paris, which is as close to Brussels as New York is to Chicago—”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    206
    “Closer, I think
    “Thanks, I need thatThe illustrious commander of NATO is assassinated with said ‘Jason
    Bourne’ taking credit for the kill, and we don’t say a goddamned thing to anybody! Jesus, I’ll prada messenger be
    cleaning latrines on a tugboat!”
    “But he didn’t kill him
    “You know that and I know that, but speaking of his history, there’s a little matter of mental
    illness that’ll come out the minute our clinical records are subpoenaed
    “It’s called amnesia; it has nothing to do with violence
    “Hell, no, it’s worseHe can’t remember what he did
    Conklin gripped his cane, his wandering eyes tiffany replica int
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    10:20 pm
    @@@@@ She gave me a sickly
    @@@@@
    She gave me a sickly coming-down-with-the-flu
    smile"I'm also wondering how I'm going to get us
    out of hereAll at once the seagrape
    seemed to be pushing in and the interweaving palms
    overhead seemed thickerI realized I could smell
    the growth around us, a ropy aroma that seemed to
    come to life halfway down my throatAnd why not?
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    It came from live things, after all; they were
    crowded in on both sides
    "Dad?"
    The itch was worseIt was red, that itch, as red
    as the stink in my nose and throat was greenThat
    itch you got when you were stuck in the burn,
    stuck in the char
    "Daddy, I'm sorry but I think I'm going to vomit
    Not a burn, not a char, it was a car, she opened
    the door of the car and leaned out, holding onto
    the wheel with one ham, and then I heard her
    sowing up
    My right eye came over red and I thought I can do
    thisI just have to get my poor
    old shit together
    I opened my door, reaching cross-body to do it,
    and got outLurched out, holding the top of the
    door to keep from sprawling headfirst into a wall
    of seagrape and the interwoven branches of a halfburied
    banyanThe bushes and
    branches were so close to the side of the car that
    they scraped me as I made my way up to the front
    Half my vision
    (RED)
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    seemed to be bleeding scarlet, I felt the tip of a
    pine-bough scrape across the wrist of - I could
    have sworn it - my right arm, and I thought I can
    do this, I MUST do this as I heard Ilse vomit
    againI was aware that it was much hotter in that
    narrow lane than it should have been, even with
    the greenroof overheadI had enough mind left in
    my mind to wonder what we'd been thinking, coming
    down this road in the first placeBut of course
    it had seemed like nothing but a lark at the time
    Ilse was still leaning out, hanging onto the wheel
    with her right handSweat stood on her forehead
    in clear beads"Oh boy-"
    "Push over, Ilse
    "Daddy, what are you going to do?"
    As if she couldn't seeAnd all at once both the
    words drive and back were unavailable to me,
    anywayAll I could have articulated in that
    moment was us, the most useless word in the
    English language when it stands by it
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    10:19 pm
    @@@@@ “There's a little infection,” Ian
    @@@@@
    “There's a little infection,” Ian murmured“Doc wants him to stay down or he'd have come to
    get you a long time agoIf Jared wasn't practically pinning him to the bed, he would have come
    anyway“Jared almost came here and carried you out by force, but I told him to let me
    speak to you firstIt wouldn't do the kid any good to see you catatonic
    My blood felt as though it had changed into ice waterSurely just my imagination
    “What's being done?”
    Jeb shruggedKid's strong; he'll fight it off
    “Nothing to do? What do you mean?”
    “It's a bacterial infection,” Ian said“We don't have antibiotics anymore
    “Because they don't work–the bacteria are smarter than your medicinesThere has to be
    something better, something else
    “Well, we don't have anything else,” Jeb saidIt just has to run its course I murmured the words in a daze
    “Eat something,” Ian urged“You'll worry him if he sees you like this
    I rubbed my eyes, trying to think straightThere was nothing to treat him with hereNo options but waiting to see if his
    body could heal itselfAnd if it couldn't…
    “No,” I gasped
    I felt as if I were standing on the edge of Walter's grave again, listening to the sound of sand
    falling into the darkness
    “No,” I moaned, fighting against the memory
    I turned mechanically and started walking with stiff strides toward the ex
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    10:11 pm
    @@@@@ "Well, look, man, don't give me all those
    @@@@@
    "Well, look, man, don't give me all those goddam facts and figuresIt seems to me it ain't that goddam hard to take a little picture
    "I might be able to take you from the back with you in the foreground and tilt the camera up so it catches the pebble, but I'll tell you, Major, it's just a waste of film because that pebble isn't even gonna register
    "Leach, it ain't that complicatedAll you got to do is press a damn buttonNow let's cut out all this jawing
    Obviously miserable, Leach squatted behind Dalleson and hopped around for a few seconds trying to find the proper angle"Will you throw a practice pebble up, Major?" Leach askedDalleson flipped one in the air"Let's get these dry runs over," he grumbled
    "All right, I'm ready now, Major
    Dalleson bent over, straightened, and fired at the pebble when it was at the top of the parabolaHe missed, and turned around to Leach"Let's try another one
    "All right," Leach said grudgingly
    This time Dalleson hit the pebble, but Leach had reacted too late, and he snapped the shutter after the pebble fragments were dispersed"Goddammit, man!" Dalleson roared
    "I'm doing my best, Major
    "Well, let's not drop the ball next time Dalleson threw away the pebbles in his hand and searched for a larger one
    "This's the last picture in the roll, Major
    "Hell, we'll make it Dalleson wiped the sweat out of his eyes again, bent over, and stared at his kneesHis heart was beating a little rapidly"You snap it soon's you hear the carbine go off," he grow
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    10:11 pm
    @@@@@Miss Eleanor's committee sure is
    @@@@@Miss Eleanor's committee sure is different
    from the bunches of old cats who run everything in AtlantaWhere did
    they find that monkey-woman driver? And who could the man be?
    Men
    didn't bake cakes for charityHe looked rather handsome, too
    Scarlett paused to smooth her windblown hair at a mirror"You look a
    bit shaken, Emma," Mrs
    She and the stout woman touched cheeks, one side then the other
    "Have a restful cup of tea, but first let me present Rhett's wife,
    Scarlett
    "It'll take more than a cup of tea to repair my nerves after that
    little ride, Eleanor," said the womanShe held out her hand"How do
    you do, Scarlett? I'm Emma Anson, or rather what remains of Emma
    Anson Eleanor embraced the younger woman and led her to
    Scarlett
    "This is Margaret, dear, Ross's wifeMargaret, meet Scarlett
    Margaret Butler was a pale, fair-haired young woman with beautiful
    sapphire-blue eyes that dominated her thin colorless faceWhen she
    smiled, a network of deep, premature lines bracketed them"I'm
    delighted to know you at last," she saidShe took Scarlett's hands in
    hers and kissed her cheek"I always wanted a sister, and a
    sister-in-law is practically the same thingI hope you and Rhett will
    come to us for supper sometime soonRoss will be longing to meet
    you,
    too> "I'd love to, Margaret, and I'm sure Rhett would, too," said
    ScarlettShe smiled, hoping she was telling the truthWho could say
    whether Rhett would escort her to his brother's house or anyplace
    else?
    But it was going to be mighty hard for him to say no to his own
    family
    Miss Eleanor and now Margaret were on her sideScarlett returned
    Margaret's kiss
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    10:24 pm
    @@@@@ But Louis DeFazio knew he was rightAnd
    @@@@@
    But Louis DeFazio knew he was rightAnd because he was right, there were more than seven
    million big ones waiting for him in ParisSeven million! Holy Christ! He could give the Palermo
    gumballs in Paris more than they ever expected and still walk away with a bundle
    An old waiter from the old country, an uncle of Trafficante, approached the table and Louis held
    his breath“There’s a telephone call for you, Signor DeFazio
    As was usual, the capo supremo went to a pay phone at the end of a narrow dark corridor outside
    the men’s room“This is New York,” said DeFazio:
    “This is Paris, Signor New YorkThis is also pazzo!”
    “Where’ve you been? You pazzo enough to drive to London, England? I’ve been waitin’ three
    hours!”
    “Where I’ve been is on a number of unlit country roads, which is important only to my nerves
    Where I am now is crazy!”
    “So where?”
    “I’m using a gatekeeper’s telephone for which I’m paying roughly a hundred American dollars
    and the French buffone keeps looking through the window to see that I don’t steal anything—
    perhaps his lunch pail, who knows?”
    “You don’t sound too stupid for a gumballSo what gatekeeper’s what? What are you talking
    about?”
    “I’m at a cemetery about twenty-five miles from ParisI tell you—”
    “A cimitero?” interrupted Louis“What the hell for?”
    “Because your two acquaintances drove here from the airport, you ignorante! At the moment
    there is a burial in progress—a night burial with a candlelight procession which will soon be
    drowned out by rain—and if your two acquaintances flew over here to attend this barbaric
    ceremony, then the air in America is filled with brain-damaging pollutants! We did not bargain for
    this sciocchezze, New YorkWe have our own work to do
    “They went there to meet the big cannoli,” said DeFazio quietly, as if to himself“As to work,
    gumball, if you ever want to work with us, or Philadelphia, or Chicago, or Los Angeles again,
    you’ll do what I tell youYou’ll also be terrifically paid for it, capisce?”
    “That makes more sense, I admit
    “Stay out of sight, but stay with themFind out where they go and who they seeI’ll get over
    there as soon as I can, but I gotta go by way of Canada or Mexico, just to make sure no one’s
    watchingI’ll be there late tomorrow or early the next day
    “Omerta,” said Louis DeFazio
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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    30
    The hand-held candles flickered in the night drizzle as the two parallel lines of mourners walked
    solemnly behind the white casket borne on the shoulders of six men; several began to slip on the
    increasingly wet gravel of the cemetery’s pathFlanking the procession were four drummers, two
    on each side, their snare drums snapping out the slow cadence of the death march, erratically out of
    sequence because of the unexpected rocks and the unseen flat grave markers in the darkness of the
    bordering grassShaking his head slowly in bewilderment, Morris Panov watched the strange
    nocturnal burial rite, relieved to see Alex Conklin limping, threading his way between the
    tombstones toward their meeting ground
    “Any sign of them?” asked Ale
    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    10:21 pm
    @@@@@And eleven paintings, because there
    @@@@@And eleven paintings, because there were
    actually three slides of Wireman Looks West, two
    close-ups and the wide-angleSo how many other
    paintings are there? How many will you be showing
    at the Scoto next month?"
    "Well," I said, "I can't say for sure, because I'm
    painting all the time, but I think right now there
    are about
    "Twenty," she said, softly and tonelessly
    Something about the way she was looking at me made
    me uncomfortable and I shifted around"I think the actual number might be
    twenty-one Of course there were a few pictures I
    wasn't countingFriends with Benefits, for
    instanceThe one I sometimes thought of as Candy
    Brown Loses His BreathAnd the red-robe sketch
    I did the addition in my head and shifted around
    some more
    "And you have no idea how amazing that isI can
    see by your face that you don't She got up,
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    dumped her ashtray in a wastebasket behind the
    couch, then stood looking at the Hockney with her
    hands in the pockets of her expensive slacksThe
    painting showed a cube of a house and a blue
    swimming poolBeside the pool was a ripe teenager
    in a black tank suitShe was all breasts and long
    tanned legs and dark hairShe wore dark glasses,
    and a tiny sun blazed in each lens
    "Is that an original?" I asked
    "Yes indeed," she said, without turning"The girl
    in the swimsuit is an original, tooMary Ire,
    circa 1962 She turned to me,
    her face fierce"Turn that tape recorder offThe
    interview is over
    "I want you to listen to
    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    10:19 pm
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    CHAPTER 6
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