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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    7:10 pm
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    He cocked a thumb at the tense family group across
    the room from usThey had gone back to their
    discussionPop was now shaking his finger at Mom"A couple of months ago, I
    could have told you what that hoopdedoo was about
    Now all I could do is make an educated guess
    "And probably come out in much the same place," I
    said"Would you trade one for the other in any
    case? Your eyesight for the occasional
    thoughtwave?"
    "God, no!" he said, then Chanel Purse looked around the caff
    with an ironic, despairing, head-cocked smile"I
    can't believe we're having this discussion, you
    knowI keep thinking I'll wake up and it'll all
    be as you were, Private Wireman, assume the
    position
    I looked him in the eye
    x
    751
    According to the Weekly Echo, Baby Elizabeth (as
    she was referred to almost throughout) began her
    artistic endeavors on the very first day of her
    at-home convalescenceShe quickly went vuitton purses on,
    "gaining skill and prowess with each passing hour,
    it seemed to her amazed father She started with
    colored pencils ("Sound familiar?" Wireman asked),
    before progressing to a box of watercolors the
    bemused John Eastlake brought home from Venice
    In the three months following her accident, much
    of it spent in bed, she had done literally
    hundreds of watercolors, turning them out at a
    rate John Eastlake and the other girls found a
    little chanel classic bag frightening(If "Nan Melda" had an opinion,
    it wasn't offered in print Eastlake tried to
    slow her down - on doctor's orders - but this was
    counterproductiveIt caused fretfulness, crying
    fits, insomnia, bouts of feverBaby Elizabeth
    said when she couldn't draw or paint, "her head
    hurted Her father said that when she did paint,
    "She ate like one of the horses she liked to
    draw The article's author, one MRickert,
    seemed to find this endearingRecalling vintage omega seamaster my own
    eating binges, I found it all too familiar
    752
    I was going over the muddy print for the third
    time, with Wireman where my right arm would have
    been, if I'd had a right arm, when the door opened
    and Gene Hadlock came inHe was still wearing the
    black tie and bright pink shirt he'd had on at the
    show, although the tie had been pulled down and
    the collar was loosenedHe was still wearing
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    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    7:15 pm
    @@@@@It's how you handle losing It's how you
    @@@@@It's how you handle losing It's how you handle failure that makes the difference in one's lifeThat goes for anything in life, not just moneyThe primary difference between a rich person and a poor person is how they handle that fear
    It's OK to be fearfulIt's OK to be a coward when it comes to moneyYou can still be richWe're all heroes at something and cowards at something elseMy friend's wife is an emergency room nurseWhen ; she sees blood, she flies into actionWhen I mention investing, she runs'j awayWhen I see blood, I don't runMy rich dad understood phobias about money "Some people are terrified of snakesSome people are terrified about losing moneyBoth are phobias," he would saySo his solution to the phobia of losing money was this little rhyme: "If you hate risk and worry
    That's why banks recommend savings as a habit when you're youngJ If you start young, it's easy to be richI won't go into it here, but there is a large difference between a person who starts saving at age 20 versus age 30A staggering difference
    It is said that one of the wonders of the world is the power of compound interestThe purchase of Manhattan Island is said to be one of the greatest bargains of all timeNew York was purchased for $24 in trinkets and beadsYet, if that $24 had been invested, at 8 percent annually, that $24 would have been worth more than $28 trillion by 1995, Manhattan could be repurchased with money left over to buy much of
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    7:18 pm
    @@@@@ As time passed without incident, as more
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    As time passed without incident, as more and more of the pass was set behind him, he grew more confident, more impatientHis halts became less frequent, the distance he would traverse each time became greaterAt one point the pass was overgrown with tall kunai grass for a quarter of a mile, and he plodded through it confidently, knowing he could not be observed
    Until now there had been no place where the Japanese could have established an outpost, and his caution, the elaborate observation he made, had been more from terror, more from the unassailable silence of the mountain and the pass, than from any suspicion of an enemy siteBut the terrain was changingThe foliage had become thicker and covered more area; in several places it was extensive enough to conceal a small bivouacHe scouted them cursorily, entering the little groves in the shadow, moving in a few yards, and then waiting for several minutes to see if he could hear the inevitable sounds of men sleepingWhen nothing moved but the leaves and birds and animals, he would stalk out and continue his advance up the pass
    At a turn it narrowed again; the opposing cliff walls were not more than fifty yards apart here, and in several places along the route the defile was blocked by a patch of jungleIt took him many minutes to pass through each grove and the strain of passing through the brush without making noise was greatHe reached a section which was comparatively open again and moved forward with a sense of release
    But at another turn he saw before him a tiny valley limited by the cliffs on either side and plugged by a small wood which grew completely across the gapIn the daylight it would have a fine field of viewIt was the best position he had seen for an outpost, and he was certain, immediately and instinctively, that the Japanese had retreated to hereHe felt it with a start of his limbs, an acceleration of his heartMartinez examined the grove from the lee of a rock, staring across the moonlight, his face pinched and tenseThere was a band of deep shadow at his right where the cliffs filleted into the base of the pass, and smoothly, not allowing himself to think about it, he glided around the rock, and crept along in the darkness on his hands and knees, keeping his face lowWith fascination he found himself watching the ragged borderline between the moonlight and shadow, and unaccountably he felt himself moving toward the light once or twiceIt seemed alive, with an existence as acute as his; his throat was tight, almost swelling, and he watched the shimmer of the moonlight with a dumb absorptionThe grove came nearer, was twenty yards away from him, now tenHe paused at the edge of it, and examined its periphery for a machine-gun emplacement or a foxholeIn the darkness he could see nothing but the dark bulk of the trees
    Once more Martinez entered a grove and stood waiting for soundsHe could not hear anything at first, and he advanced a cautious step, parting the brush with his hands, and then moved forward another and anotherHis foot trod on a patch of worn earth, explored it with frig
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    7:18 pm
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    profligately on the Peachtree Street house, with its prodigious
    expenses, and on her wardrobe and luxuriesBut the half million he
    had given her was differentShe intended to give it back
    to him intact when they were once again truly man and wifeHe had
    offered it as payment for separation, and she could not accept it
    because she would not accept chanel jewelry separationIt bothered her that she'd
    had to take some of it out of the bank vaults to bring on the trip
    Everything had happened so fast, there'd been no time to get any of
    her
    own money from Atlanta in the box with the
    remaining gold in Savannah, and she was determined to spend as little
    as possible of the gold coins that were now keeping her back straight
    and her waist small, filling the channels in her corset where mens gucci watches steel
    strips had once beenIt was much better to win at whist and have her
    own money to spendWhy, in another week, with any luck, she'd add
    at
    least another $ I 50 to her purseBut still, she'd be glad when the
    voyage was overEven with all the sails bellied taut with wind, the
    Brian Boru was too big for her to feel the thrill she remembered from
    racing ahead of the storm in Charleston HarborAnd she hadn't seen
    even one dolphin, Cartier Tortue despite Colum's poetic promises"There they are,
    Scarlett darling!"
    Colum's usually calm, melodious voice rose in excitement; he took
    Scarlett's arm and drew her to the ship's rail"Our escorts are
    here
    We'll be seeing land soon Overhead the first gulls circled the Brian
    BoruScarlett hugged Colum impulsivelyThen again when he
    pointed
    to the sleek silvery forms on the nearby seaThere were dolphins
    after allMuch later, she stood louis vuitton online between Colum and Kathleen trying to
    hold her hat on her head against the attack of the strong windThey
    were entering harbor under steamScarlett stared in astonishment at
    the island of rock to starboardIt seemed impossible that anything,
    even the towering wall of craggy stone, could withstand the crashing
    waves that beat against it and threw white foam high against its
    face
    She was accustomed to the low rolling hills of chanel purses Count
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    7:10 pm
    @@@@@She pulled out her palm computer and
    @@@@@She pulled out her palm
    computer and touched the screen a few times
    “Oh,” she said stiffly“I haven't checked my mail today
    She was quiet as she scanned through what I had written
    “I sent it very early in the morning,” I said“I was half asleep at the timeI'm not sure how
    much of what I wrote was memory or dream, or sleep-typing, maybe
    I went along with the words–Melanie's words–as they flowed easily from my mouth; I even
    added my own lighthearted laugh at the endIt was dishonest of meBut I
    would not let the Seeker know that I was weaker than my host
    For once, Melanie was not smug at having bested meShe was too relieved, too grateful that I
    had not, for my own petty reasons, given her away
    “Interesting,” the Seeker murmured“Another one on the loose“Peace
    continues to elude us She did not seem dismayed by the idea of a fragile peace–rather, it
    seemed to please herMelanie wanted so badly to make another denial, to claim the boy was just
    part of a dreamon't be stupid, I told herhat would be so obviousIt said much for the
    repellent nature of the Seeker that she could put Melanie and me on the same side of an
    argumentelanie's whisper was sharp, painful like a cut wished I could deny that I felt… similarlyHate was an unforgivable emotion
    But the Seeker was… very difficult to like
    The Seeker interrupted my internal conversati
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    7:10 pm
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    Slobotnik bought oneMailbox with Flowers, I
    believe it's called
    I knew the one she was talking aboutIt was
    actually titled Mailbox with OxeyesAnd I thought
    that one was harmless, I thought that one was
    probably all mine, but top chanel still
    "They didn't take it, did they?"
    "No, because they were going to Orlando first, fly
    home from thereThey also asked that it be framed
    and shipped No questions now, only answersShe
    sounded younger - like the Pam I had married, the
    853
    one chloe bag who'd kept my books back in those pre-Tom days
    "Your surgeon - can't remember his name-"
    "Todd Jamieson I said it automaticallyIf I'd
    paused to think, I wouldn't have been able to
    rememberHe also bought a painting, and arranged
    for shipmentHe wanted tiffany heart tag one of those spooky Girl
    and Ship ones, but they were spoken forHe
    settled for a conch-shell floating on the water
    Which could be troubleAll the surreal ones could
    be trouble
    "Bozie bought two of the sketches, and Kamen
    bought oneKathi Green fake hermes wanted one, but said she
    couldn't afford it"I thought her
    husband was sort of a dork
    I would have given her one if she'd asked, I
    thought
    Wireman spoke up again"Listen to me now, Pam
    You've got work to do A little fog still in her voice, but
    mostly watch omega shar
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    7:14 pm
    @@@@@Most people do not know my partner is my
    @@@@@Most people do not know my partner is my catIf they accept the offer, and I don't want the deal, I call my home and speak to my catI make this absurd statement to illustrate how absurdly easy and simple the game isSo many people make things too difficult and take them too seriously
    Finding a good deal, the right business, the right people, the right investors, or whatever is just like datingYou must go to the market and talk to a lot of people, make a lot of offers, counteroffers, negotiate, reject and acceptI know single people who sit at home and wait for the phone to ring, but unless you're Cindy Crawford or Tom Cruise, I think you'd best go to the market, even if it's only the supermarketSearch, offer, reject, negotiate and accept are all parts of the process of almost everything in life

    ?Jog, walk or drive a certain area once a month for ten minutesI have found some of my best real estate investments while joggingI will jog a certain neighborhood for a yearWhat I look for is changeFor there to be profit in a deal, there must be two elements: a bargain and changeThere are lots of bargains, but it's change that turns a bargain into a profitable opportunity So when I jog, I jog a neighborhood I might like to invest in It is the repetition that causes me to notice slight differencesI notice real estate signs that are up for a long timeThat means the seller might be more agreeable to dealI watch for moving trucks, going in or out I stop and talk to the driversI talk to the postal carriersIt's amazing how much information they acquire about an area
    I find a bad area, especially an area that the news has scared everyone away from I drive it for sometimes a year waiting for signs of something changing for the betterI talk to retailers, especially new ones, and find out why they're moving in
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    7:18 pm
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    "You ought to know, Major
    He grunted again, looked about under the tent at the empty wooden tables, the benches flanking themThe gray metal officers' dishes were already laid out"You oughtn't to make the setting too early," the Cartier watch tank Major said"It just lets the flies horse around on them
    "Okay, do something about it He waited until O'Brien started collecting the plates, and then walked across the bivouac to the operations tentHe saw a few enlisted men lying in their pup tents, and it irritated himHe was wondering which platoon they were in when he omega de ville remembered the reportHe moved toward the operations tent, picked up the phone, and ordered Windmill to send a platoon fully equipped up to the deserted Jap bivouac"And lay some wire right with themI want a report in half an hour
    "They won't get there till then
    "That's all rightThe moment they occupy it, you let me rolex submariner price know
    Time dragged by under the heated canvasThe Major was desperately uneasy, hoping secretly that the platoon had to turn backBut still if they were able to move in, what then? He called up the commander of the reserve battalion from the 460th and told him to alert a company for movement within an hour
    "I'll have to gucci messenger bag take them off the road
    "Take them off," the Major growledIf it all came to nothing, the work of a company of men would be lost on the road for a half dayAnd yet there was nothing else he could doBecause if the platoon could occupy the center of the Toyaku Line he would have to exploit itThe Major was working on axioms birkin bag hermes n
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
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    Might as well face it, no more travel for me until after the babyI
    wish I'd accepted the cakehe three country girls stood in the wide
    doorway of the Big House bedroom Scarlett had chosen for her own
    All were wearing big homespun aprons and wide-ruffled mobcaps, but
    that
    was the only thing birkin hermes about them that was the sameAnnie Doyle was as
    small and round as a puppy, Mary Moran as tall and ungainly as a
    scarecrow, Peggy Quinn as neat and pretty as an expensive dollThey
    were holding hands and crowded together"We'll be going now if it's
    all the same to you, MrsFitzpatrick, before Gucci Indy Bag the heavy rain starts
    in," said PeggyThe other girls nodded vigorously
    "Very well," said MrsFitzpatrick, "but come in early Monday to make
    up the time
    "Oh, yes, miss," they chorused, dropping clumsy curtseysTheir
    shoes
    made a racket on the stairs"Sometimes I despair," sighed gucci mens wallet Mrs
    Fitzpatrick, "but I've made good maids out of sorrier material than
    thatAt least they're willingEven the rain wouldn't have bothered
    them if today wasn't HalloweenI suppose they think if clouds darken
    the sky it's the same as nightfall
    She looked at the gold watch pinned on her bosom"It's only a rolex prices little
    after two Let's get back where we wereI'm afraid that all this
    wet will keep us from finishing, MrsI wish it weren't so,
    but I'm not going to lie to youWe've got all the old paper off the
    walls and everything scrubbed and freshBut you need new plaster in
    some spots, and that means dry tiffany diamond wa
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    7:10 pm
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    “Mel, I…” His face, for once, has no smile
    I try to look away, but he holds my chin so that my gaze can't escape hisDoes he not feel the
    fire between his body and mine? Is that all me? How can it all be me? It feels like a flat sun
    trapped between us–pressed like a flower between the pages of a thick book, burning the paper
    Does dolce sale it feel like something else to him? Something bad?
    After a moment, his head turns; he's the one looking away now, still keeping his grip on my
    chin“You don't owe me that, MelanieYou don't owe me anything at all
    It's hard for me to swallow“I'm not saying… I didn't mean that I feltobligatedAnd… you
    shouldn't, eitherForget I said hermes bag anything
    He sighs, and I want to disappearGive up–lose my mind to the invaders if that's what it takes
    to erase this huge blunderTrade the future to blot out the last two minutes of the past
    Jared takes a deep breathHe squints at the floor, his eyes and jaw tight“Mel, it doesn't have
    to be like thatJust because we're together, just clutch prada because we're the last man and woman on
    Earth…” He struggles for words, something I don't think I've ever seen him do before“That
    doesn't mean you have to do anything you don't want toI'm not the kind of man who would
    expect… You don't have to…”
    He looks so upset, still frowning away, that I find myself speaking, though I know rolex submariner replica it's a mistake
    before I start“That's not what I mean,” I mutter“'Have to' is not what I'm talking about, and I
    don't think you're 'that kind of manIt's just that –”
    Just that I love himI grit my teeth together before I can humiliate myself moreI should bite
    my tongue off right now before it ruins anything else
    “Just that… ?” he discount fendi asks
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    7:10 pm
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    "Not bad," Jack said from the open driver's-side
    window"Now I'll pop the hood so you can check
    the-" He stopped, looking beyond meThe road was down to little more than a
    path, cluttered with old chunks of asphalt and
    overgrown with Creeping OxeyeCrossing it about
    thirty yards up was a line of five frogs the size
    of Cocker gucci watches ladies Spaniel puppiesThe first three were a
    brilliant solid green that rarely if ever occurs
    in nature; the fourth was blue; the fifth was a
    faded orange that might once have been redThey
    were smiling, but there was something fixed and
    weary about those smilesThey were hopping slowly,
    as if their hoppers were almost bustedLike the
    bobcat, they reached the underbrush and
    disappeared into it
    "What the blue fuck were those?" Jack Cartier Watches Tortue asked"Leftovers from a little girl's
    powerful imaginationAnd they won't last much
    longer, from the look of themLet's ride while we can
    He began to creep forward againI asked Wireman
    what time it was
    943
    We were able to ride all the way to the gate of
    the first Heron's RoostI never would have bet on
    it, but we didThe foliage closed in one final
    time - banyans and scrub pines choked with gray
    beards of Spanish Moss - oyster rolex but Jack bulled the
    Mercedes through, and all at once the undergrowth
    drew backHere the elements had washed the tar
    away completely and the end of the road was only a
    rutty memory, but it was good enough for the
    Mercedes, which jounced and bucketed up a long
    hill toward two stone pillarsA great unruly
    hedge, easily eighteen feet high and God knew how
    thick, ran away from the pillars on either side;
    it had also spy bag fendi begun to spread fat green fingers down
    the hill toward the jungle growthThere were
    gates, but they stood rusty and halfway openI
    didn't think the Mercedes would quite fit
    This last stretch of road was flanked on both
    sides by ancient Australian pines of imposing
    heightI looked for upside-down birds and saw
    noneI saw none of the rightside-up variety,
    either, for that matter, although I could now hear
    the faint buzz of omega deville watch inse
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    7:23 pm
    @@@@@It was only better than MrsNorris’s sharp
    @@@@@It was only
    better than MrsNorris’s sharp answers would have been; but she
    being gone home with all the supernumerary jellies to nurse a sick
    maid, there was peace and good-humour in their little party, though
    it could not boast much beside
    The evening was heavy like the day“I cannot think what is the
    matter with me,” said Lady Bertram, when the tea-things were removed
    “I feel quite stupidIt must be sitting up so late last night
    Fanny, you must do something to keep me awake
    Fetch the cards; I feel so very stupid
    The cards were brought, and Fanny played at cribbage with her
    aunt till bedtime; and as Sir Thomas was reading to himself, no
    sounds were heard in the room for the next two hours beyond the
    reckonings of the game—”And that makes thirty-one; four in hand
    and eight in cribYou are to deal, ma’am; shall I deal for you?”
    Fanny thought and thought again of the difference which twentyfour
    hours had made in that room, and all that part of the house
    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 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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    Jane Austen
    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 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 think
    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    7:17 pm
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    “Okay, Doc, you gotta get dressedI made sure everything was cleaned and pressed, even the
    undershortsHow about that?”
    “You mean you have your own laundry and dry cleaners out here?”
    “Fuck no, we take ’em over to— Oh, no, you don’t get me that way, Doc!” The guard grinned
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    questions I don’t wanna answerLike, ‘Hey, Unc, how’d you put me through medical school, huh?’
    Yeah! He’s a doctor, like you, what do you think of that?”
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    little trip The guard handed Mo his clothes
    “I suppose it would be foolish to ask where,” said Panov, getting out of the chair, removing his
    hospital nightshirt and putting on his shorts
    “I hope not as foolish as your nephew not telling you about a symptom you have that I’d find
    somewhat alarming if I were you Mo casually pulled up his chanel purses trousers
    “Wadda you talkin’?”
    “Perhaps nothing,” replied Panov, putting on his shirt and sitting down to pull up his socks
    “When did you last see your nephew?”
    “A couple of weeks agoI put in some bread to cover his insuranceShit, those mothers are
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    “About what?”
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    “About your mouth Mo laced his shoes and gestured with his head“There’s a mirror over the
    bureau, go take a look
    “At what?” The capo subordinato walked quickly to the mirror
    “At what?”
    “YourselfSee the yellow on your teeth, the fading red of your gums and how the gums
    recede the higher they go?”
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    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    7:16 pm
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    sunset seemed to be shining right through it
    Maybe, but there was no ship out there now to
    break the horizon; it was a straight line with
    darkest blue below and brilliant orange-yellow
    above, fading to a delicate greenish shade I could
    see but not duplicate, not out of my meager box of
    colored pencils
    There were twenty or thirty photo printouts
    scattered around the feet of my easelMy eye
    happened on a close-up of a sophora necklace
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    Looking at it, my phantom right arm began to itch
    I clamped my yellow pencil between my teeth, bent
    over, picked up the sophora photo, and studied it
    The light was failing now, but only by degrees -
    the upper room I called Little Pink held light for
    a long time - and there was more than enough to
    admire the details; my digital camera took
    exquisite close-ups
    Without thinking about what I was doing, I clamped
    the photo to the edge of the easel and added the
    sophora bracelet to my sunsetI worked quickly,
    first sketching - really nothing more than a
    series of arcs, that's sophora - and then coloring:
    brown overlaying black, then a bright dab of
    yellow, the remains of one flowerI remember my
    concentration being fined down to a brilliant cone,
    the way it sometimes was in the early days of my
    business, when every building (every bid, really)
    was make or breakI remember clamping a pencil in
    my mouth once again at some point, so I could
    scratch at the arm that wasn't there; I was always
    forgetting the lost part of meWhen distracted
    and carrying something in my left hand, I
    sometimes reached out with my right one to open a
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    doorAmputees forget, that's allTheir minds
    forget and as they heal, their bodies let them
    What I mostly remember about that evening is the
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    actual bolt of lightning in a bottle for three or
    four minutesBy then the room had begun to dim
    out, the shadows seeming to swim forward over the
    rose-colored carpet toward the fading rectangle of
    the picture windowEven with the last light
    striking across my easel, I couldn't get a good
    look at what I'd doneI got up, limped around the
    treadmill to the switch by the door, and flipped
    on the overheadThen I went back, turned the
    easel, and caught my breath
    The sophora bracelet seemed to rear over the
    horizon-line like the tentacle of a sea creature
    big enough to swallow a supertankerThe single
    yellow blossom could have been an alien eyeMore
    important to me, it had somehow given the sunset
    back the truth of its ordinary I-do-this-everynight
    beauty
    That picture I set asideThen I went downstairs,
    microwaved a Hungry Man fried chicken dinner, and
    ate it right down to the bottom of the box
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    The following night I lined the sunset with
    bundles of witchgrass, and the brilliant orange
    shining through the green turned the horizon into
    a forest fire
    Friday, December 17th, 2010
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    Ian felt it when I gave upHe must have been waiting for this–not as entirely ruled by his body
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    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
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    "It's going to be kind of hard, MajorThis's just a little ol' box camera, and it's only got a shutter speed of one-twenty-fifth of a second"Aw hell, it'll be good enough
    "Well, I'll tell you, Major, I'll be frank about it" -- Leach's voice was soft with a southern accent -- "I'd like to oblige you but I only have but three pictures left, and it's kinda hard to get film
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    "Aw, no, I wasn't thinking of that, but, well, you see --"
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    "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
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    Friday, December 10th, 2010
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    Monday, December 6th, 2010
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    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
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