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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    12:39 pm
    @@@@@“So…” he finally said“What do you
    @@@@@“So…” he finally said“What do you think?”
    CHAPTER 38
    Touched
    What do I think about what?”
    “About our… discussion out there,” Ian clarified
    What did I think about it? I didn't know
    Somehow, Ian was able to look at things from my perspective, myalien perspectiveHe thought
    I had earned a right to my life
    But he was… jealous? Of Jared?
    He knew what I wasHe knew I was just a tiny creature fused into the back of Melanie's brain
    A worm, as Kyle had saidYet even Kyle thought Ian had a “crush” on meOnme? That wasn't
    possible
    Or did he want to know what I thought about Jared? My feelings on the experiment? More
    details about my responses to physical contact? I shuddered
    Or my thoughts on Melanie? Melanie's thoughts on their conversation? Whether I agreed with
    Jared abouther rights?
    I didn't know what I thought
    “I really don't know,” I said“That's understandable
    “Only because you are very understandingIt was odd how his eyes could both scorch and warmEspecially with a color
    that was closer to ice than fireThey were quite warm at the moment
    “I like you very much, Wanda
    “I'm only just beginning to see thatI guess I'm a little slow
    “It's a surprise to me, too
    We both thought that over“And… I suppose…that is one of the things you don't know how you feel
    about?”
    “NoI mean yes, I…don't kno
    10:22 am
    @@@@@He didn't stay at your place, either; he
    @@@@@He didn't stay at your
    place, either; he stayed at the RitzNorman
    Rockwell, pipe and all!" Gene Hadlock shook his
    head, smiling more widely now"Ye gods, what a
    controversy that was, the howling when the Arts
    Council announced MrSaturday Evening Post was
    comingIt was Elizabeth's idea and she loved the
    hubbub it caused, said they could have filled Ben
    Hill Griffin Stadium-" He saw my blank look"The
    University of Florida'The swamp where only
    Gators come out alive'?"
    634
    "If you're talking football, my interest begins
    with the Vikings and ends with the Packers
    "The point is, I asked her about her own artistic
    abilities during the Rockwell uproar - and he did
    indeed sell out; not the Geldbart, either, but
    City CenterElizabeth laughed and said she could
    hardly draw stick figuresIn fact, she used a
    sports metaphor, which is probably why I thought
    of the GatorsShe said she was like one of those
    wealthy college alumni, except she was interested
    in art instead of footballShe said, 'If you
    can't be an athlete, hon, be an athletic supporter
    And if you can't be an artist, feed em, care for
    em, and make sure they have a place to come in out
    of the rain' But artistic talent herself?
    Absolutely none
    I thought of telling him about Mary Ire's friend
    Aggie WinterbornThen I touched the red pen in my
    pocket and decided not toI decided what I wanted
    to do was to get back to Duma Key and paint8 was the most ambitious of the
    series, also the largest and the most complex, and
    it was almost done
    635
    I stood up and offered my hand"Thank you for
    everythingAnd if you change your mind and want
    something a little stronger for the pain-"
    iv
    The drawbridge to the Key was up to allow some
    rich guy's toy to wallow through the pass to the
    Gulf sideJack sat behind the wheel of the Malibu,
    admiring the girl in the green bikini who was
    sunning on the foredeckThe Bone was on the radio
    An ad for some motorcycle dealership ended (The
    Bone was big on motorcycle sales and various
    mortgage services), and The Who came on: "Magic
    Bus My stump began to tingle, then to itch
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    12:39 pm
    @@@@@A cop picks him up and sends him to
    @@@@@A 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 neckI'm sorry I disturbed ya, pop, I'll be minding my manners
    You do that, son, and you and me won't have no trouble
    Across the street, they can hear a jukebox grinding in a barroom
    Back behind the night desk, Red turns on his radio and plays it softly(THE LEAVES OF BROWN CAME TUMBLING DOWN One of the men awakens screamingRed goes into the hall and quiets him, patting him on the shoulder and leading him back to his
    10:22 am
    @@@@@ "What intensifies fear and desire is
    @@@@@
    "What intensifies fear and desire is ignoranceThat is why rich people with lots of money often have more fear the richer they getMoney is the carrot, the illusionIf the donkey could see the whole picture, it might rethink its choice to chase the carrot
    Rich dad went on to explain that a human's life is a struggle between ignorance and illumination
    He explained that once a person stops searching for information and knowledge of one's self, ignorance sets inThat struggle is a moment-to-moment decision-to learn to open or close one's mind
    "Look, school is very, very importantYou go to school to learn a skill or profession so as to be a contributing member of societyEvery culture needs teachers, doctors, mechanics, artists, cooks, business people, police officers, firefighters, soldiersSchools train them so our culture can thrive and flourish," said rich dad"Unfortunately, for many people, school is the end, not the beginning
    There was a long silenceI did not comprehend everything he said that dayBut as with most great teachers, whose words continue to teach for years, often long after they're gone, his words are still with me today
    "I've been a little cruel today," said rich dadI want you to always remember this talkI want you to always think of MrsI want you always to think of the donkeyNever forget, because your two emotions, fear and desire, can lead you into life's biggest trap, if you're not aware of them controlling your thinkingTo spend your life living in fear, never exploring your dreams, is cruelTo work hard for money, thinking that money will buy you things that will make you happy is also cruelTo wake up in the middle of the night terrified about paying bills is a horrible way to liveTo live a life dictated by the size of a paycheck is not really a lifeThinking that a job will make you feel secure is lying to yoursel
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    12:46 pm
    @@@@@She was even gladder to see the Grand
    @@@@@She was even gladder to see the Grand Finale
    float behind Rich's
    There was a leak in the red-and-white striped canopy above it, and
    water was pouring steadily on the giltcrowned head and
    cotton-batting-ermined shoulders of DrHe looked thoroughly
    miserable"And I hope you catch double pneumonia and die," Scarlett
    said under her breathThen she ran to the house for a hot bath
    Scarlett was costumed as the Queen of HeartsShe would have
    preferred
    to be the Queen of Diamonds, with a glittering paste crown and dog
    collar and broochesHowever, then she wouldn't have been able to
    wear
    her pearls, which the jeweller had told her were "fine enough for the
    Queen herself And besides she had found nice big imitation rubies to
    sew all around the low neck of her red velvet gownIt was so good to
    be wearing color! The train of her dress was bordered with white
    fox
    It would be ruined before the Ball was over, but no matter; it looked
    elegant draped over her arm to danceShe had a mysterious red satin
    eye mask that covered her face down to the tip of her nose, and her
    lips were reddened to match itShe felt very daring, and quite
    safe
    Tonight she could dance to her heart's content without anyone
    knowing
    who she was so they could insult herWhat a wonderful idea it was to
    have a masquerade! Even with her mask in place Scarlett was
    nervous
    about entering the ballroom without an escort, but she needn't have
    been
    A large group of masked revellers was entering the lobby when she
    stepped out of her carriage, and she joined them without comment
    from
    anyoneOnce inside, she looked around her with astonishment
    DeGives Opera House had been transformed almost beyond
    recognition
    The handsome theater was now truly a convincing King's palaceA
    dance
    floor had been built over the lower half of the auditorium, extending
    the large stage into a mammoth ballroomMeade
    as
    Rex was seated on histhrone, with uniformed attendants on each side,
    including a Royal Cup BearerIn the center of the Dress Circle was
    the biggest orchestra Scarlett had ever seen, and on the floor were
    masses of dancers, watchers, wanderersThere was a tangible feeling
    of heightened gaiety, a recklessness that arose from the anonymity of
    being masked and disguisedAs soon as she entered the room, a man
    in
    Chinese robes and a long pigtail put his silken arm around her waist
    and
    whirled her onto the dance floorHe might be a perfect stranger It
    was dangerous and exciting The tune was a waltz, her partner a
    dizzying
    dance
    10:30 am
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    They stopped, wiped the blood from his mouth, and then set out againIt took them more than an hour to reach the platoon, and they were very tired when they got thereThey laid Wilson down, slipped him off the stretcher, and flopped on the ground to restThe other men gathered about them nervously, asking questions, mildly jubilant balenciaga motorcycle that Wilson had been found, but they were too weary to talk much"Goddam it, you men, stop standing around with your finger in your ass They looked at him in bewilderment
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    "What the hell do you think it's for? For a stretcherNow git goin', you men
    Muttering, they picked up a couple of machetes, and filed out of the hollow to the groveIn a minute or so, the platoon could hear them hacking away at the treesCroft spat disgustedly"Them men are enough to frost your nuts There was a restless titterWilson, unconscious now, lay in the tank louis center of the hollow, very stillDespite themselves, they all kept looking at him
    Hearn had joined Croft, and after talking for a moment or two, they called Brown and Stanley and Martinez over to themIt was about four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was still hotCroft, afraid of becoming sunburned, pulled the rifles out of his shirt sleeves, flapped it a few times, and put dior women it
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    12:47 pm
    @@@@@He sighed, picked it off the glass, and
    @@@@@He sighed, picked it off the glass, and climbed in behind the wheel
    Fifty-eight minutes later he swung the car into the parking lot of a small brick building in the
    huge cargo complex of Orly AirportThe building was nondescript; the work inside was notIt was
    a branch of the Department of Immigration, an all-important arm known simply as the Bureau of
    Air Entries, where sophisticated computers kept up-to-the-minute records of every traveler flying
    into France at all the international airportsIt was vital to immigration but not often consulted by
    the Deuxième, for there were far too many other points of entry used by the people in which the
    Deuxième was interestedNevertheless, over the years, Bernardine, operating on the theory of the
    obvious being unnoticed, had sought information from the Bureau of Air EntriesEvery now and
    then he had been rewardedHe wondered if that would be the case this morning
    Nineteen minutes later he had his answerIt was the case, but the reward was considerably
    diminished in value, for the information came too lateThere was a pay phone in the bureau’s
    lobby; Bernardine inserted a coin and dialed the Pont-Royal
    “Yes?” coughed the voice of Jason Bourne
    “I apologize for waking you
    “I was just getting upThere are two men down in the street far more tired than I am, unless
    they’re replacements
    “Relative to last night? All night?”
    “YesI’ll tell you about it when I see youIs that why you called?”
    “NoI’m out at Orly and I’m afraid I have bad news, information that proves me an idiotI
    should have considered itYour wife flew into Marseilles slightly over two hours ago
    “Why is that bad news?” cried Jason“We know where she is! We can— Oh, Christ, I see what
    you mean Subdued, Bourne’s words trailed off“She can take a train, hire a
    10:30 am
    @@@@@Although the meal was as silent as his
    @@@@@Although the
    meal was as silent as his birthday dinner had been, this time he ate
    everything that was brought to himScarlett watched him suspiciously
    from the corner of her eyeWhat was he up to, the old fox? She
    couldn't believe that there wasn't something behind this charadeIn
    her experience, getting what you wanted from servants was the
    easiest
    thing in the worldAll you had to do was shout at themAnd Lord
    knows Grandfather's good at terrifying peopleLook at Aunt Pauline
    and Aunt EulalieLook at me, for that matterI hopped out of bed
    quick enough when he sent for meI'll not do that agaInThe old
    man
    dropped his napkin by his empty plate"I'll expect you to be suitably
    dressed for future meals," he said to Scarlett"We shall leave the
    house in precisely one hour and seven minutes to go to churchThat
    should provide adequate time for your grooming
    Scarlett hadn't intended to go to church at all, now that her aunts
    weren't there to expect it and she'd gotten what she wanted from the
    Mother SuperiorBut her grandfather's high-handedness had to be
    stoppedHe was violently anti-Catholic, according to her aunts
    "I didn't know you attended Mass, Grandfather," she saidSweetness
    dripped from the wordsPierre Robillard's thick white brows met in a
    beetling frown"You do not subscribe to that papist idiocy like your
    aunts, I hope
    "I'm a good Catholic, if that's what you mean
    And I'm going to Mass with my cousins, the O'HarasWho-by the
    way-have invited me to come stay with them any time I want, for as
    long
    as I like Scarlett stood and marched in triumph from the r
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    12:39 pm
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    wasn't thinking of exercise that afternoon, I
    wasn't monitoring the pain in my hip, and I wasn't
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    182
    I stood bouncing the orange shell up and down in
    my hand, all at once feeling the broken-glass
    throb in my hipIt started there and went pulsing
    all the way down my legYet the tracks I saw
    stretching back toward my house hardly dragged at
    allIt occurred to me then that I'd been babying
    myself - maybe a little, maybe quite a lotMe and
    my stupid little gucci men's watch Numbers GameToday I had
    forgotten about giving myself an anxious miniphysical
    every five minutes or soLike any normal personI could baby myself going back,
    stopping every now and then to do one of Kathi
    Green's side-stretches, which hurt like hell and
    didn't seem to do much of anything else, or I
    could just walkLike any normal unhurt person
    I decided to go with thatBut before I started, I
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    beside it with an umbrella, striped like the chair,
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    only a speck glimpsed from Big Pink had become a
    tall, heavyset guy dressed in jeans and a white
    shirt with sleeves rolled to the elbowsHis hair
    183
    was long and blowing in the breezeI couldn't
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    for thatHe saw me looking and wavedI waved
    back, then turned and began trudging for home
    along my own footprintsThat was my first
    encounter with Wireman
    ii
    My final thought before turning in that night was
    that I'd probably find myself hobbling through the
    second day of the New Year almost too sore to walk
    I was delighted to find that wasn't true; a hot
    bath seemed to take care of the residual rolex submariner price stiffn
    10:22 am
    @@@@@“How long do you think it will take before
    @@@@@“How long do you think it
    will take before you reopen?” asked the former judge of the Boston court, sitting down at the white
    wrought-iron table
    “The structural damage can be repaired in a matter of weeks,” replied the owner of Tranquility
    Inn, “but the aftertaste of what happened here will take longer, a lot longer
    “Again, how long?”
    “I’ll give it four or five months before I send out the initial brochures—it’ll be late for the
    season’s bookings, but Marie agreesTo do anything earlier would not only be tasteless, but the
    urgency would fuel all the gossip againTerrorists, drug runners, corrupt island government—we
    don’t need that and we don’t deserve it
    “Well, as I mentioned, I can pay my freight,” said the once honorable justice of the federal
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    but certainly sufficient to cover the costs of a villa, plus a little for the inn’s kitty
    “I told you, forget itI owe you more than I can ever repayTranquility’s yours as long as you
    want to stayJacques turned from the railing, his eyes lingering on the fishing boat below, and
    sat down opposite Prefontaine“I worry about the people down there, in the boats and on the beach
    I used to have three or four boats bringing in the freshest fishNow I’ve only got one coming in for
    us and what’s left of the staff all of whom are on half salary
    “Then you need my money
    “Come on, Judge, what money? I don’t want to appear intrusive, but Washington gave me a
    pretty complete rundown on youYou’ve been living off the streets for years
    “Ah, yes, Washington,” pronounced Prefontaine, raising his glass to the orange-and-azure sky
    “As usual, it is twelve steps behind the crime—twenty steps where its own criminality is
    concerned
    “What are you talking about?”
    “Randolph Gates, that’s what I’m talking about—who I’m talking about
    “That bastard from Boston? The one who put the Jackal on David’s trail?”
    “The touchingly reformed Randolph Gates, JohnnyReformed in all ways but monetary
    restitution, I might addStill, nevertheless, with the mind and the conscience that I knew at
    Harvard years agoNot the brightest, not the best, but with the literary and oratorical skills that
    camouflaged a brilliance that was never really there
    “Now what the hell are you talking about?”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    437
    “I visited him the other day at his rehabilitation center in Minnesota, or Michigan, I can’t
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
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    vii
    Wireman was giving her sips of what looked like
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    "I want you all out!" Hadlock said"Everyone but
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    732
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    "Don't forget," she told him
    He gave her a brief grin and knocked off a salute
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    "Trusted him for what?" Wireman asked her
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    10:30 am
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    For a moment there were a few sounds in the valley beneath him, and he picked up his rifle and stared into the shadows of the grassIt became quiet againFor some reason he was left depressed
    It was a skinny enough hope, and all the pressures, all the machines, were squeezing men a little more; with every weapon the odds became a little more out of whackMorality against bombsEven the techniques of revolution were changed, were accomplished with armies against armies now, or not at all
    If the world turned Fascist, if Cummings had his century, there was a little thing he could doThere was always terrorismBut a neat terrorism with nothing sloppy about it, no machine guns, no grenades, no bombs, nothing messy, no indiscriminate killingMerely the knife and the garrote, a few trained men, and a list of fifty bastards to be knocked off, and then another fifty
    A plan for concerted action, comradesThere would always be another fifty, that wasn't the ideaIt was just something to keep you occupied, keep you happyTonight we strike at Generalissimo Cummings
    There were no answers you could find, but perhaps there were epochs in history which had no answersRely on the blunder factorSit back and wait for the Fascists to louse it up
    Only that wasn't enough, you couldn't do thatFor whatever reason, you had to keep resistingYou had to do things like giving up a commission
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    Drought season for anarchis
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    12:47 pm
    @@@@@ “We’ve got a telephone number!” Peter
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    “We’ve got a telephone number!” Peter leaned forward on the couch“It was in the ledger
    Bourne brought out of Swayne’s house
    “I’ve tried it, remember? It’s an answering machine, that’s all it isWe can get a location
    “To what end? Whoever picks up the messages does it by remote, and if he or she has half a
    brain, it’s done from a public phoneThe relay is not only untraceable but capable of erasing all
    other messages, so we can’t tap in
    “You’re not very into high tech, are you, Field Man?”
    “Let’s put it this way,” replied Conklin“I bought one of those VCRs so I could watch old
    movies, and I can’t figure out how to turn off the goddamn blinking clockI called the dealer and
    he said, ‘Read the instructions on the interior panel I can’t find the interior panel
    “Then let me explain what we can do to an answering machineWe can jam it externally
    “Gee willikers, Sandy, what’s next for Orphan Annie? What the hell is that going to do? Other
    than kill the sourceWe have the location from the numbers
    “Oh?”
    “Someone has to come and repair the machine
    “We take him and find out who sent him there
    “You know, Peter, you’ve got possibilitiesFor a neophyte, you understand, your current
    outrageously undeserved position notwithstanding
    “Sorry I can’t offer you a drink
    Bryce Ogilvie, of the law firm Ogilvie, Spofford, Crawford and Cohen, was dictating a highly
    complex reply to the Justice Department’s antitrust division when his very private telephone line
    rang; it rang only at his deskHe picked up the phone, pressed the green button and spoke rapidly
    “Hold on,” he ordered, looking up at his secretary“Would you excuse me, please?”
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    249
    “Certainly, sir The secretary got out of her chair, walked across the large impressive office and
    disappeared beyond the door
    “Yes, what is it?” asked Ogilvie, returning to the p
    10:30 am
    @@@@@I could hardly get out the words to tell
    @@@@@I could hardly
    get out the words to tell Colum about the Bishop, I was crying so
    hard
    I believe I could sleep for a week, I've never felt so washed out in my
    lifeHer head felt light, her whole body heavy and relaxedShe sank
    into the soft bed and plunged at once into a deep refreshing sleepIn
    all Scarlett's life, she had faced her crises alone
    Sometimes she had refused to admit she needed help, more often
    there
    had been nowhere she could turnIt was different now, and her body
    recognized the difference before her mind did
    There were people to help herHer family had willingly lifted her
    burden from her shouldersShe wasn't alone any moreShe could
    allow
    herself to let goPierre Robillard slept little that night
    He was disturbed by Scarlett's defianceJust so had her mother
    defied
    him, so many years before, and he had lost her foreverHis heart had
    broken then; Ellen was his favorite child, the daughter most like her
    motherHe didn't love ScarlettAll the love he had was in the grave
    with his wifeBut he wouldn't let Scarlett go without a fightHe
    wanted his last days to be comfortable, and she could see to itHe sat
    erect in bed, his lamp finally fading when the oil was gone, and he
    planned his strategy as if he were a general facing superior numbers
    After a fitful hour of rest shortly before dawn, he woke with
    his decision madeWhen Jerome brought his breakfast, the old man
    was
    signing a letter he had writtenHe folded and sealed it before he
    made room across his knees for the tray"Deliver this," he said,
    handing the letter to his butler"And wait for a r
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    12:39 pm
    @@@@@ "Come on back and get another oneI only
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    "Come on back and get another oneI only take the
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    enough for me - but Miss Eastlake either sleeps or
    rearranges her china figurines most of the
    afternoon, and of course she never misses Oprah,
    so I have timeMore than I know what to do with,
    232
    actuallyWho knows? We might find a lot to talk
    about
    "All right," I saidHe offered
    his hand and I shook with him again"You know
    what I think? Friendships founded on laughter are
    always fortuitous
    "Maybe your next job will be writing the fortunes
    in Chinese cookies," I said
    "There could be worse jobs, muchacho
    iv
    Walking back, my thoughts turned to Miss Eastlake,
    an old lady in big blue sneakers and a wide straw
    hat who just happened to own (sort of) her own
    Florida KeyNot the Bride of the Godfather after
    all, but Daughter of the Land Baron and,
    apparently, Patroness of the ArtsMy mind had
    done another of those weird slip-slides and I
    couldn't remember her father's name (something
    simple, only one syllable), but I remembered the
    basic situation as Wireman had outlined itI'd
    never heard of anything similar, and when you
    233
    build for a living, you see all sorts of strange
    property arrangementsI thought it was actually
    rather ingeniousif, that was, you wanted to
    keep most of your little kingdom in a state of
    undeveloped graceThe question was, why?
    I was most of the way back to Big Pink before I
    realized my leg was aching like a bastardI
    limped inside, slurped water directly from the
    kitchen tap, then made my way across the living
    room to the main bedroomI saw the light on the
    answering machine was blinking, but I wanted
    nothing to do with messages from the outside world
    right thenAll I wanted was to get off my feet
    I lay down and looked at the slowly revolving
    blades of the overhead fanI hadn't done very
    well explaining my lack of a fake armI wondered
    if Wireman would've had better luck with What's a
    lawyer doing as a rich old spinster's houseman?
    What kind of other life is that?
    Still considering this, I drifted off into a
    dreamless and very satisfying nap
    v
    234
    When I woke up, I took a hot shower, then went
    into the living room to check my answering machine
    I wasn't as stiff as I had expected, given my twomile
    walkI might get up tomorrow hobbling, but
    for tonight I thought I was going to be all rig
    10:22 am
    @@@@@“Those humans who were aware of us before
    @@@@@“Those humans who were aware of us before insertion are more difficult to subdue
    This one still resists
    There was a moment of silence while they waited for my response
    Resisting? The host was blocking my access? Again, the heat of my anger surprised me
    “Am I correctly bound?” I asked, my voice distorted because it came through my teeth
    “Yes,” the Healer said“All eight hundred twenty-seven points are latched securely in the
    optimum positions
    This mind used more of my faculties than any host before, leaving me only one hundred
    eighty-one spare attachmentsPerhaps the numerous bindings were the reason the emotions
    were so vivid
    I decided to open my eyesI felt the need to double-check the Healer's promises and make sure
    the rest of me workedI closed my eyes againThe last light I had seen had been filtered
    through a hundred ocean fathomsBut these eyes had seen brighter and could handle itI
    opened them narrowly, keeping my eyelashes feathered over the breach
    “Would you like me to turn down the lights?”
    “No, Healer
    “Very good,” he said, and I understood that his approval was meant for my casual use of the
    possessive
    Both waited quietly while my eyes slowly widened
    My mind recognized this as an average room in a medical facilityThe ceiling tiles
    were white with darker specklesThe lights were rectangular and the same size as the tiles,
    replacing them at regular intervalsThe walls were light green–a calming color, but also the
    color of sicknessA poor choice, in my quickly formed opinion
    The people facing me were more interesting than the roomThe worddoctor sounded in my
    mind as soon as my eyes fastened on the Heal
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