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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Willa Perkins)
Fri Aug 18 17:42:58 2006
From: "Willa Perkins" <ardythkelwin@kotnet.org>
To: "Os2ann.DISCUSS" <os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.mit.edu>
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e fallen on me like an avalanche. =20Untrue. =20The irritating thing abo=
ut village life, he thought, was that there weren't enough people for ther=
e to be any perfect strangers instead there were just enough to keep one f=
rom knowing immediately who many of the villagers were. =20The ar=
ticle noted that some of Annie's alleged victims had even lived long enoug=
h to be given real names. =20" She was staring at him w=
ith horrified eyes, her hands pressed so tightly over her mouth that the n=
ails were white. =20He continued to feel =
this way until 1983, when he read The World According to Garp. =
=20Fair and realistic might be synonyms in the best of all =
possible worlds, but if so, this was not that world.Too bad. =
=20not surprising, considering the field of vision was s=
o small. =20They passed from Ian to Geoffrey and then bac=
k to Ian again. =20"Don't want that last bite? =
=20Mutt and Jeff.</font></p>
<p><font =20color=3D"#FFFFF1">She had actually died of the fractured sk=
ull she had received when she struck the mantel, and she had struck the ma=
ntel because she had tripped. =20Maybe he could=
whack her once with the O-Cedar mop or something before she wrung his nec=
k like a chicken. =20A man who had been in a great deal more pain, a man =
who had had nothing to hold onto, not even this shitty book. =20=
You forgot, just the way you keep forgetting to change February on that da=
mned calendar. =20Her smile suddenly co=
llapsed into a narrow watchfulness he didn't like much=A0=97 it was like d=
iscovering a deep crevasse almost obscured by summer flowers in the midst =
of a smiling, jocund meadow. =20For an instant he could feel the thump o=
f her pulse, and his face twisted in revulsion. =
=20A mound of lime Jell-O covered with a crack-glaze of dried=
whipped cream stood on top of the TV next to a two-liter plastic bottle o=
f Pepsi and a gravy-boat. =20"Ian drove his bloody fist into Geoffrey's f=
ace again and again =97 his friend for whom, in his right=BBmind, he would=
have died. =20He fled to that well now, like a thirsty animal finding=
a waterhole at dusk, and he drank from it; which is to say he found the h=
ole in the paper and fell thankfully through it. =20=
He had never shown anyone a manuscript before he had proof-read it and the=
n retyped it. =20Just one and it's all ove=
r for her "No, boss mussun",=BBHezekiah was saying with a kind of terrifie=
d patience. =20The pain had begun to mutter up and dow=
n his legs again, and it was speaking even more -loudly from the area of h=
is pelvis=A0=97 he had been sitting up for nearly an hour, and the disloca=
tion down there was complaining about it. =
=20She had asked if he would like to come in for an iced coffee; he=
said he couldn't. =20Her labor had been long and hard, but no longer and=
no harder than that of many other young ladies she had seen, the midwife =
declared. =20"If I had wanted to burn the house down, Annie, I could have =
done it long before this. =20"Please, God, please,=BB=
he moaned as the Cherokee started outside with a bang and a roar. =
=20It was while he ate the soup that she told him what=
had happened, and he remembered it all as she told him and he supposed it=
was good to know how you happened to end up with your legs shattered, but=
the manner by which he was coming to this knowledge was disquieting=A0=97=
it was as if he was a character in a story or a play, a character whose h=
istory is not recounted like history but created like fiction. =20=
For an instant he could feel the thump of her pulse, and his face twisted =
in revulsion. =20He reversed down the hall, fighting panic, remi=
nding, himself he hadn't expected much from the front door anyway. =
=20It snarled dully in what remained of his shins and in =
the bunched salt-dome that had replaced his left knee. =
=20He had gone for a walk, thinking of nothing on top =
of his mind, the way he was thinking of nothing on top right now. =
=20The hall was wide enough for him to swing the chair around and face t=
he door, but now his arms were trembling with exhaustion.</font></p>
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