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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Hale)
Wed Aug 16 08:28:41 2006
From: "Scott Hale" <kalugdanmarianne@168city.com>
To: "Os2ann.DISCUSS" <os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.mit.edu>
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d her hasten down the walk to the driveway, intent not on meeting but inte=
rcepting him. =20" He looked again, as if to confirm the dreadf=
ulness of the sight, and again made as if to rush to where Misery had been=
tied to a post in a jungle clearing, her arms over her head. =20Sh=
e cleaned; she cooked ambitious meals (although everything she cooked came=
out tasting strangely industrial, as if years of eating in hospital cafet=
erias had somehow corrupted any culinary talent she might once have had); =
each afternoon she bundled Paul up in a huge blue blanket, jammed a green =
hunting cap on his head, and rolled him out onto the back porch. =20Wit=
h it she had slit the satin lining of her coffin and over God knew how man=
y hours she had used it to claw away at the coffin's wooden lid. =
=20Overlying even all this was a picture, which grew clearer a=
nd clearer (as if a giant slide had been projected against the cloud in wh=
ich he lay) as time passed.June 15th=A0=97 short. =20Perhaps the gods wer=
e not insane after all. =20Yet her voice was=
soft. =20Bring that Webster Pot with you, please. =
=20I fibbed because I didn't know you well then.</font></p>=
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amed he was lost in a snowstorm, only it wasn't snow; it was flying pages =
which filled the world, destroying direction, and each page was covered wi=
th typing, and all the n's and t's and e's were missing, and he understood=
that if he was still alive when the blizzard ended, he would have to fill=
them all in himself, by hand, deciphering words that were barely there.=20=
After awhile Annie turned off the vacuum cleaner and stood in the doorway,=
watching him. =20Goodbye to all that, he thought ran=
domly, and then Annie was bustling back in with another tray. =
=20Paul sat reflectively for a moment, re-read t=
he last line (mentally filling in the omissions), and then simply went bac=
k to work. =20It would be nice to b=
elieve he had performed heroically, but he supposed it was only that escap=
e thing again, because the pain had been really dreadful. =20He hit the =
keys harder than necessary, so she would be sure to hear he was typing som=
ething, at least. =20In Africa he had discovered =
that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel =97=
they were insane, and that changed all. =20Sitting already hurt; the=
pain would be monstrous by the time she got back, even if she hurried. =
=20The confusion had diffused (and thus defused) her rage even more=
; he saw she now didn't even know if she had any right to be angry. =20=
The woman had cut off his foot with an axe and his thumb with an electric =
knife, and here she was with a pile of caviar big enough to choke a wartho=
g. =20"I was actually thinking of you,=BB=
she said, spooning soup into his mouth and then professionally wiping away=
a dribble, from the comer with a napkin. =20Outsid=
e he could hear the roaring sound of Annie's bright-blue riding lawnmower=A0=
=97 she was around front, giving the grass a good trim so those cockadoodi=
e Roydmans wouldn't have anything to talk about in town. =
=20He had been aware of dryness in his mouth and throat for a=
long time, but now it began to seem more urgent. =
=20Dimly, from the afterdeck, Geoffrey could hear a gang of =
men singing a shanty in bellowing, off-key voices. =
=20"If you bring me my manuscript and one of those yellow legal pads, =
I'll work in longhand,=BBhe said. =20"She dra=
ined her second Pepsi and held the empty plastic bottle between her and hi=
m. =20He thought he had heard the cow=
bellow like that once before, but it had been an evil sound dimly heard i=
n an evil dream, because then he had been full of his own pain. =
=20Then he slowly rolled over on his side and began the ter=
rible job of getting to his knees again. =20She mi=
ght take one casual glance in here and immediately realize in some arcane =
way what had happened.=20It was the first time this had happened in some d=
ays, and he wondered uneasily if it meant she was slipping into the lower =
part of her cycle. =20He noted with deepening misgivings that there wer=
e red marks like weals on her cheeks and arms. =20=
For an instant he could feel the thump of her pulse, and his face twisted =
in revulsion.</font></p>
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