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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    7:11 am
    @@@@@ “That’s why? Who are they?” “No, that’s
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    “That’s why? Who are they?”
    “No, that’s not whyI mean it’s interesting, but it’s not why I’m here
    “Then why?” asked Jason, crossing to a chair next to a window and sitting down, frowning,
    perplexed“My erudite friend from Cambodia and beyond doesn’t climb over fences with his foot
    in cement at three o’clock in the morning unless he thinks he has to
    “Which tells me nothing
    “What’s the soul?”
    “Not ‘the,’ DeSole
    “He’s the keeper of the keys at LangleyNothing happens that he doesn’t know about and
    nothing gets done in the area of research that he doesn’t pass on
    “We’re in deep shit
    “That doesn’t help me at all
    “Would you rather I took a nerve out of your neck?”
    “All right, all right Conklin dropped his cane on the rug“I didn’t even
    trust the freight elevatorI stopped two floors below and walked up
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    61
    “Because we’re in deep shit?”
    “Yes
    “Why? Because of this DeSole?”
    “Correct, MrThe man who has his finger on every computer at
    LangleyThe one person who can spin the disks and put your old virginal Aunt Grace in jail as a
    hooker if he wants her there
    “What’s your point?”
    “He’s the connection to Brussels, to Teagarten at NATOCasset learned down in the cellars that
    he’s the only connection—they even have an access code bypassing everyone else
    “What does it mean?”
    “Casset doesn’t know, but he’s goddamned angry
    “How much did you tell him?”
    “The minimumThat I was working on some possibles and Teagarten’s name came up in an odd
    way—most likely a diversion or used by someone trying to impress someone else—but I wanted to
    know who he talked to at the Agency, frankly figuring it was Peter HollandI asked Charlie to play
    it out in the dark
    “Which I assume means confidentiall
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    7:11 am
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    minute as it approachedFrenzied and noisy, the narrow es<
    delighted
    ScarlettThen she saw the riverThe vintage omega watches tram stopped on the bridge she
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    and crowdsThe water bright in the sunlight
    The Liffey was left behind, the tram was suddenly in shade vintage hermes tall
    buildings were near on both sidesScarlett felt the chill"We'd
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    Charlotte gestured toward the street that cur ahead of them
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    "We'll want to take a hackney back to the but on foot is the only way
    to see the shopsWould you like before we begin? You should
    become
    acquainted with Bewley's
    "I don't know, CharlotteI might just take a look inside shop
    first
    That fan in the logo chanel window-see the one in that back with the pink
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    see that at firstAnd that precious Look Charlotte, at the embroidery
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    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    7:14 am
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    next to me, casually turning to the girl on his other sideIt was the young blonde–he called her
    Paige
    “How are things going? How are you holding up with Andy gone?” he asked her
    “I'd be fine if I weren't so worried,” she told him, biting her lip
    “He'll be home cartier pasha watch soon,” Ian assured her“Jared always brings everyone homeHe's got a real
    talentWe've had no accidents, no problems since he showed up
    My interest sparked when he mentioned Jared–and Melanie, so somnolent these days,
    stirred–but Ian didn't say anything elseHe just patted Paige's chanel knockoff shoulder and turned to take his
    food from Jeb
    Jeb sat next to me and surveyed the room with a deep sense of satisfaction plain on his faceI
    looked around the room, too, trying to see what he sawThis must have been what it was
    usually like here, when I wasn't aroundOnly Jimmy choo today I didn't seem to bother themThey must
    have been tired of letting me interrupt their lives
    “Things are settling down,” Ian commented to JebWe're all reasonable folks here
    I frowned to myself
    “That's true, at the moment,” Ian said, laughing“My brother's not around
    “Exactly,” chanel logo Jeb agreed
    It was interesting to me that Ian counted himself among the reasonable folksHad he noticed
    that Jeb was unarmed? I was burning with curiosity, but I couldn't risk pointing it out in case he
    hadn't
    The meal continued as it had begunMy novelty had apparently worn rolex oyster perpetual day-date off
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    7:19 am
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    And his eyes gave him awayThey were large and gray, and baleful, like glass on fireOn Motome there had been an inspection before the troops boarded ship, and Hearn had walked through the ranks behind the GeneralThe men trembled before Cummings, stammered out their replies in hoarse self-conscious voicesThree-quarters of it, of course, came from talking to a general, but Cummings had been so birkin bag hermes genial, had attempted so fully to put them at their ease, and it had not worked at allThose great eyes with the pale-gray irises had seemed almost blank, two ovals of shocking whiteHearn remembered a newspaper article which had described the General as having the features of a genteel intelligent bulldog, and the article had added a little lushly, "in his manner are combined effectively the force, the tenacity, the staying power of that doughty animal with all the intellect and charm and omega seamaster gmt poise of a college professor or a statesman It was no more accurate than a newspaper story ever was, but it underlined a favorite theory about the General which Hearn hadFor that reporter he had been The Professor, as he had been The General, The Statesman, The Philosopher, to any number of different menEach of those poses had been a baffling mixture of the genuine and the sham, as if the General instinctively assumed the one which pleased him at the moment, but beyond that was driven on, was prada milano handed a personality garment by the unique urges that drove him
    Hearn leaned back in his chair"All right, I suppose I was an assSo what? There's a kind of pleasure in telling somebody like Conn where to shove it
    "It was a completely pointless thing to doI suppose you considered it some kind of indignity to have to listen to him
    "You're being very young about itThe rights you have as a person depend completely upon my whimJust stop and think about thatWithout me you're just a second gucci hobo horsebit lieutenant, which I suppose is the operative definition of a man who has no soul of his ownYou weren't telling him to shove it" -- the General's distasteful pronunciation of "shove it" italicized the phrase -- "I was, in effect, telling him, and I had no wish to do so at the timeSuppose you stand up now while you're talking to meYou might as well start at first principlesI'm damned if I'm going to have people walking by and seeing you sit here as if this division were a partnership between you chloe white and
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    7:11 am
    @@@@@Now, when she knew better how to be useful,
    @@@@@Now, when she
    knew better how to be useful, and how to forbear, and when her
    mother could be no longer occupied by the incessant demands of a
    house full of little children, there would be leisure and inclination
    for every comfort, and they should soon be what mother and daughter
    ought to be to each other
    William was almost as happy in the plan as his sisterIt would be
    the greatest pleasure to him to have her there to the last moment
    before he sailed, and perhaps find her there still when he came in
    from his first cruiseAnd besides, he wanted her so very much to see
    the Thrush before she went out of harbour—the Thrush was certainly
    the finest sloop in the service—and there were several improvements
    in the dockyard, too, which he quite longed to shew her
    He did not scruple to add that her being at home for a while
    would be a great advantage to everybody
    “I do not know how it is,” said he; “but we seem to want some of
    your nice ways and orderliness at my father’sThe house is always in
    confusionYou will set things going in a better way, I am sureYou
    will tell my mother how it all ought to be, and you will be so useful
    to Susan, and you will teach Betsey, and make the boys love and
    mind youHow right and comfortable it will all be!”
    By the time MrsPrice’s answer arrived, there remained but a very
    few days more to be spent at Mansfield; and for part of one of those
    days the young travellers were in a good deal of alarm on the subject
    of their journey, for when the mode of it came to be talked of, and
    MrsNorris found that all her anxiety to save her brother-in-law’s
    money was vain, and that in spite of her wishes and hints for a less
    expensive conveyance of Fanny, they were to travel post; when she
    saw Sir Thomas actually give William notes for the purpose, she
    was struck with the idea of there being room for a third in the carriage,
    and suddenly seized with a strong inclination to go with them,
    to go and see her poor dear sister PriceShe proclaimed her thoughts
    She must say that she had more than half a mind to go with the
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    Mansfield Park
    young people; it would be such an indulgence to her; she had not
    seen her poor dear sister Price for more than twenty years; and it
    would be a help to the young people in their journey to have her
    older head to manage for them; and she could not help thinking her
    poor dear sister Price would feel it very unkind of her not to come
    by such an opportunity
    William and Fanny were horror-struck at the idea
    All the comfort of their comfortable journey would be destroyed
    at onceWith woeful countenances they looked at each otherTheir
    suspense lasted an hour or twoNo one interfered to encourage or
    dissuadeNorris was left to settle the matter by herself; and it
    ended, to the infinite joy of her nephew and niece, in the recollection
    that she could not possibly be spared from Mansfield Park at
    present; that she was a great deal too necessary to Sir Thomas and
    Lady Bertram for her to be able to answer it to herself to leave them
    even for a week, and therefore must certainly sacrifice every other
    pleasure to that of being useful to them
    It had, in fact, occurred to her, that though taken to Portsmouth
    for nothing, it would be hardly possible for her to avoid paying her
    own expenses back againSo her poor dear sister Price was left to all
    the disappointment of her missing such an opportunity, and another
    twenty years’ absence, perhaps, begun
    Edmund’s plans were affected by this Portsmouth journey, this
    absence of Fanny’sHe too had a sacrifice to make to Mansfield
    Park as well as his auntHe had intended, about this time, to be
    going to London; but he could not leave his father and mother just
    when everybody else of most importance to their comfort was leaving
    them; and with an effort, felt but not boasted of, he delayed for
    a week or two longer a journey which he was looking forward to
    with the hope of its fixing his happiness for eve
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    7:11 am
    @@@@@ As if it were an hour ago, a minute ago,
    @@@@@
    As if it were an hour ago, a minute ago, Bourne remembered5 out of his
    holster and, without warning, jabbed the barrel into the approaching noncom’s forehead
    “One more word and you’re dead, Sergeant The man had been a sergeant! “You bring us our
    requisitions by O-five-hundred tomorrow morning or I’ll get to Saigon and personally blow you
    into the wall of whatever whorehouse you’re frequentingDo I make myself clear or do you care to
    save me a trip to publicity city? Frankly, in light of our losses, I’d rather waste you now
    “You’ll get what you need
    “Très bien!” had yelled the oldest French member of Medusa, who years later would save his
    life in a wildlife sanctuary in Beijing“Tu es formidable, mon fils!” How right he wasD’Anjou, a man legends were written aboutJason’s thoughts were abruptly shattered
    The long-haired attack dog was suddenly circling in the road, its snarls growing louder, its nostrils
    picking up the human scentWithin seconds, as the animal found its directional bearings, a frenzy
    developedThe dog lunged through the foliage, its teeth bared, the snarls now the throated growls
    of a killBourne sprang back into the fence, pulling the CO2 pistol out of its nylon shoulder holster
    with his right hand; his left arm crooked, extended, prepared for a vital counterassault that if not
    executed properly would cost him the nightThe crazed animal leaped, a hurling mass of rage
    Jason fired, first one cartridge and then the second, and as the darts were embedded, he whipped his
    left arm around the attack dog’s head, yanking the skull counterclockwise, slamming his right knee
    up into the animal’s body to ward off the lashing sharp-nailed pawsIt was over in moments—
    moments of raging, panicked, finally disintegrating fury—without the howling sounds that might
    have carried across the lawn of the general’s estateThe long-haired dog, its narcotized eyes wide,
    fell limp in Bourne’s armsHe lowered it to the ground and once again waited, afraid to move until
    he knew that no converging inhuman alarms had been sent to the other animals
    There were none; there was only the constant murmuring of the forest beyond the prohibiting
    fenceJason replaced the CO2 pistol in his holster and crept forward, back to the graveled road,
    beads of sweat rolling down his face and into his eyesHe had been away too longYears ago such
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    94
    a feat as silencing an attack dog would have rolled off him—un exercise ordinaire, as the legend
    d’Anjou would have said—but it was no longer ordinaryWhat permeated his being was fearPure,
    unadulterated fe
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    7:11 am
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    "Very well Scarlett laughed until her sides achedIs that what 'diffident' means? If you'd only brag clutch prada a
    little, Charles, you could have saved me a lot of trouble
    I've been trying to get with the Blazers for a year, but I didn't know
    anybody
    "The one you'll really like is my Aunt LetitiaShe can ride Uncle
    John into the ground and never look backCome on, I'll introduce
    you There were promising rumbles of thunder, but no earring chanel rainBy
    midday
    the air was stiflingErnest Sutcliffe rang the dinner gong to get
    everyone's attentionhe and his wife had planned something different
    for the afternoon, he said nervously
    "There is the usual croquet and archery, what? Or the library and
    billiards in the house, what? Or whatever one does customarily
    What?"
    "Do get on with it Ernest," louis vuitton duffle bag said his wifeWith many starts and stops
    and sputters Ernest got on with itThere were bathing costumes for
    anyone who wanted one and ropes strung across the river for the
    adventurous to hold on to while cooling off in the rushing water
    "hardly 'rushing,'" amended Nan Sutcliffe, "but a decent little
    currentFootmen will be there with iced black chanel tote champagne
    Scarlett was one of the first to acceptIt sounded like being in a
    cool tub all afternoonIt was immensely more enjoyable than a cool
    tub, even though the water was warmer than she'd hoped it would be
    Scarlett moved along the rope hand over hand towards the center and
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    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    7:11 am
    @@@@@Neither was it the secret that really
    @@@@@Neither was it the
    secret that really matteredAt any rate, I trusted Ian not to go blabbing to anyone who would
    kill me over it“Melanie is still here“What is it like? For you? For her?”
    “It's… frustrating, for us bothAt first I would have given anything to have her disappear the
    way she should haveBut now I… I've gotten used to her“Sometimes it's nice
    to have the companyShe's like a prisoner in many waysLocked away in my
    headShe prefers that captivity to disappearing, though
    “I didn't know there was a choice
    “There wasn't in the beginningIt wasn't until your kind discovered what was happening that
    any resistance startedThat seems to be the key–knowing what's going to happenThe humans
    who were taken by surprise didn't fight back
    “So if I were caught?”
    I appraised his fierce expression–the fire in his brilliant eyes
    “I doubt you would disappearThings have changed, thoughWhen they catch full-grown
    humans now, they don't offer them as hostsGoing soft, getting sympathetic to my host, losing my way…”
    He thought about that for a long time, sometimes looking at my face, sometimes at the
    cornstalks, sometimes at nothing at all
    “What would they do with me, then, if they caught me now?” he finally asked
    “They'd still do an insertion, I thinkTrying to get informationProbably they'd put a Seeker in
    you
    “But they wouldn't keep you as a
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    7:20 am
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    "Now, men," the General said loudly, "I don't believe there's a tent that's still up in the areaAs soon as the storm lifts, we'll try to bring up some ponchos from the beach, but I have no doubt some of you are going to be wet tonightIt's to be regretted, but you've been wet beforeA bit of trouble has started up on the line, knock off louis vuitton and some of you may spend the night in a far worse place He paused for a moment, standing in the rain; then he added with a twinkle, "I assume that none of you left a guard post when the storm brokeIf any of you are here who shouldn't be, you better get the hell back as soon as I leave There was a snicker from the menSince the rain had eased, most of the company had drifted chanel silver over toward the truck where the General was talking"Seriously, men, from what we heard before the communications went out, I've an idea there are going to be some Japs inside our lines tonight, so you better keep an extremely alert guardWe're fairly far back from the front, but we're not that far back He smiled at them, got back into his jeep, followed by the officers, and drove cartier love out of the area"I knew we been havin' it soft too longTwo to one they send us out to catch a shit-storm tonight
    Wilson nodded, shaking his head angrily"When you have it good it don' pay to bitchAll those replacements wantin' to see combat, they're gonna change they mind
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    7:11 am
    @@@@@ To talk over the dreadful business with
    @@@@@
    To talk over the dreadful business with Fanny, talk and lament,
    was all Lady Bertram’s consolationTo be listened to and borne with,
    and hear the voice of kindness and sympathy in return, was everything
    that could be done for herTo be otherwise comforted was
    out of the questionThe case admitted of no comfortLady Bertram
    did not think deeply, but, guided by Sir Thomas, she thought justly
    on all important points; and she saw, therefore, in all its enormity,
    what had happened, and neither endeavoured herself, nor required
    Fanny to advise her, to think little of guilt and infamy
    Her affections were not acute, nor was her mind tenaciousAfter
    a time, Fanny found it not impossible to direct her thoughts to
    other subjects, and revive some interest in the usual occupations;
    but whenever Lady Bertram was fixed on the event, she could see it
    only in one light, as comprehending the loss of a daughter, and a
    disgrace never to be wiped off
    Fanny learnt from her all the particulars which had yet transpired
    Her aunt was no very methodical narrator, but with the help of
    some letters to and from Sir Thomas, and what she already knew
    herself, and could reasonably combine, she was soon able to understand
    quite as much as she wished of the circumstances attending
    the storyRushworth had gone, for the Easter holidays, to Twickenham,
    with a family whom she had just grown intimate with: a family of
    lively, agreeable manners, and probably of morals and discretion to
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    Mansfield Park
    suit, for to their house MrCrawford had constant access at all times
    His having been in the same neighbourhood Fanny already knewRushworth had been gone at this time to Bath, to pass a few
    days with his mother, and bring her back to town, and Maria was
    with these friends without any restraint, without even Julia; for Julia
    had removed from Wimpole Street two or three weeks before, on a
    visit to some relations of Sir Thomas; a removal which her father
    and mother were now disposed to attribute to some view of convenience
    on MrVery soon after the Rushworths’ return
    to Wimpole Street, Sir Thomas had received a letter from an
    old and most particular friend in London, who hearing and witnessing
    a good deal to alarm him in that quarter, wrote to recommend
    Sir Thomas’s coming to London himself, and using his influence
    with his daughter to put an end to the intimacy which was
    already exposing her to unpleasant remarks, and evidently making
    Mr
    Sir Thomas was preparing to act upon this letter, without communicating
    its contents to any creature at Mansfield, when it was followed
    by another, sent express from the same friend, to break to him
    the almost desperate situation in which affairs then stood with the
    young peopleRushworth had left her husband’s house: Mr
    Rushworth had been in great anger and distress to him (MrHarding)
    for his advice; MrHarding feared there had been at least very flagrant
    indiscretionThe maidservant of MrsRushworth, senior, threatened
    alarminglyHe was doing all in his power to quiet everything, with
    the hope of MrsRushworth’s return, but was so much counteracted
    in Wimpole Street by the influence of MrRushworth’s mother, that
    the worst consequences might be apprehended
    This dreadful communication could not be kept from the rest of
    the fam
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    7:12 am
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    “Hey, easy, amicoIlich Ramirez Sanchez, otherwise known as Carlos the Jackal, is a living person,
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    him, Jason Bourne—or, as I’m firmly convinced, David Webb
    “That word had to come from somebody!” exploded Albert Armbruster“Who was it?”
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    leg, a man named Conklin, Alexander ConklinHe and a psychiatrist—Panov, Morris Panov—are
    close friends of Webb
    “Where are they?” asked the capo supremo grimly
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    177
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    “It’s a gap I can’t fill,” said DeSole
    “A what?”
    “That’s an Agency term for no answer
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    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    7:21 am
    @@@@@It wasn't even the sight of that table
    @@@@@It
    wasn't even the sight of that table trying to
    escape, tugged by its own umbrellaIt was
    Wireman's glass, still standing placidly upright
    between the sprawling man's side and left arm
    Acme Iced Tea Company, I thought, still stuck on
    those old Road Runner cartoonsMeep-meep! And
    218
    that, of course, made me think of the crane that
    had done the damage, the one with the fucked-up
    beeper that hadn't beeped, and all at once I saw
    myself as Wile ECoyote in the cab of my
    disintegrating pickup truck, eyes bugged in
    bewilderment, frazzled ears sticking off in two
    opposite directions and maybe smoking a little at
    the tipsI laughed until I rolled bonelessly
    out of my own chair and plopped onto the sand
    beside Wiremanbut I also missed the glass,
    which still stood perfectly upright like a
    cigarette-butt in an urn of sandIt was
    impossible for me to laugh any harder, but I did
    Tears gushed down my cheeks and the world had
    begun to dim out as my brain went into oxygendeprivation
    mode
    Wireman, still howling, went crawling after his
    runaway table, locomoting on knees and elbowsHe
    made a grab for the base and it skittered away as
    if sensing his approachWireman plowed face-first
    into the sand and came up laughing and sneezingI
    rolled over on my back and gasped for breath, on
    the verge of passing out but still laughing
    219
    That was how I met Wireman
    iii
    Twenty minutes later the table had been placed in
    a rough approximation of its original position
    That was all very well, but neither of us could
    look at the umbrella without breaking into fits of
    the gigglesOne of its pie-wedges was torn, and
    it now rose crookedly from the table, giving it
    the look of a drunken man trying to pretend he's
    soberWireman had moved the remaining chair down
    to the end of the wooden walk, and had taken it at
    my insistenceI was sitting on the walk itself,
    which, although backless, would make getting up an
    easier (not to mention more dignified) proposition
    Wireman had offered to replace the spilled pitcher
    of iced tea with a fresh oneI refused this, but
    agreed to split the miraculously unspilled glass
    with him
    "Now we're water-brothers," he said when it was
    gone
    "Is that some Indian ritual?" I asked
    220
    "Nope, from Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert
    Heinlein
    It occurred to me that I'd never seen him reading
    as he sat in his striped chair, but I didn't
    mention
    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    7:14 am
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