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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Noe Hollis)
Wed Oct 25 22:56:16 2006
From: "Noe Hollis" <liudamita@butimarproductions.org>
To: "Os2ann.discuss" <os2ann.discuss@bloom-picayune.mit.edu>
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<p><font =20color=3D"#FFFFF1">""No. =
=20Goddammit, scream! =20He belched, covere=
d his mouth, and looked guiltily at Annie, who went off into another gay g=
ust of laughter. =20The note would say: "Whenever =
my editor called me up and told me you were planning to review one of my b=
ooks in the daily Times, my knees used to knock together=A0=97 you gave me=
some good ones, Chris old buddy, but you also torpedoed me more than once=
, as you well know.=20On a higher shelf was a pile of Slim Jims, as neatly=
stacked as the kindling in Annie's shed. =
=20There were big window over the sink and they would let in a lot of lig=
ht even on cloudy days. =20But in here=
all was silence as the three men, two white and one black, waited to see =
if Misery would live.Thought of them smelling his helplessness, perhaps. =
=20An irony worthy of Paul Harvey, Paul Sheldon thought, and laughed wild=
ly. =20Paul began to scream at once. =
=20Annie was a big woman, but this fellow made her look almost s=
mall. =20"Paul shrieked, knowing he was too late but shouting anyway.=
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<p><font =20color=3D"#FFFFF5">The only real question is about Ralph: doe=
s he come at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end? =20Tre=
at a woman who isn't a fool as if she were, and that woman always comes ou=
t ahead. =20In desperation he pushed back the=
blankets with his hands for the first time, hoping against hope that it w=
asn't as bad as the shapes the blankets made seemed to suggest it was. =
=20Page two was a birth announcement: Paul Emery Wilkes, born in B=
akersfield Receiving Hospital, May 12th, 1939. =
=20She had a moment to wonder why such a holy place as a churc=
h should seem so frightening after dark, and then realized it was not the =
church. =20Her right cheek was swelling u=
p, and it looked like she was going to have a hell of a shiner in the morn=
ing. =20The word which defined it was c=
atatonia, but what frightened him had no such precise word=A0=97 it was, r=
ather, a vague comparison: in that moment he thought that her thoughts had=
become much as he had imagined her physical self: solid, fibrous, unchann=
elled, with no places of hiatus. =20If the car had yielded traces of bloo=
d to forensic analysis (if, indeed, there had been a forensic analysis), t=
he radio did not say so. =20Doyle was berate=
d by his own mother when he wrote and told her of his intention to do away=
with Holmes. =20So Annie took the box and li=
t the match and put the lit match in his hand and he touched it to the com=
er of the paper and then let the match fall into the pot and watched, fasc=
inated, as the flame tasted, then gulped. =20"He could see the courtroom =
in Denver, could see Annie Wilkes on the stand, not wearing jeans now but =
a rusty purple-black dress and an awful hat. =20The photo =
showed a fireman on a ladder, silhouetted against a background of flames b=
illowing from the window of a frame building. =20=
The clipping from the January 14th Camera showed her blank, stonelike face=
rendered in newsprint dots below a headline which read: NEW HEAD MATERNIT=
Y WARD NURSE NAMED. =20This went very slowly at first=A0=97 individua=
l clacks followed by spaces of silence, some as long as fifteen seconds. =
=20During the next three weeks, Paul Sheldon felt su=
rrounded by a queer electric peacefulness. =
=20The song came back, the one by the Trammps: Burn, baby, burn, burn the=
mother down! =20A horrible moaning sound passed=
between his closed lips and his hands made light, haphazard drumming soun=
ds on either side of the Royal, but that was all he could do, all the cont=
rol of his destiny he could seem to take. =20Geoffrey was right,=
of course =97 dear old Geoffrey was rarely wrong =97 but sometimes when h=
e was alone, the Gearless of Misery's escape from the Grim Reaper came for=
cibly home to him, and it was nearly impossible to hold the tears back. =
=20If the police come, it may raise suspicio=
n, but I'd rather have them suspicious than have them drive up to the hous=
e and hear you making a big cockadoodie fuss. =20His last dimming gl=
impse of the world was his own collapsing body and Annie's white shoes sta=
nd astride it: Goddess, he thought, and died. =
=20Again she bent over to check whatever it was she had at the foot =
of the bed; again he heard a faint dull clunk/clank, wood thumping against=
some metallic object, and then she turned back, brushing absently at her =
hair again.=20"She looked at him with her black eyes burning in her solid =
yet doughy white face and Paul thought: If Andrew Pomeroy could get it up =
for you, Annie, he must have been as crazy as the caretaker that burned do=
wn the hotel.</font></p>
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