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Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barton Hannah)
Tue Jan 9 18:06:19 2007
From: "Barton Hannah" <malinanarendranath@bark-out.org>
To: "Os2ann.discuss" <os2ann.discuss@bloom-picayune.mit.edu>
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nized it only by the attached barn=A0=97 he had, after all, never seen the=
house itself from the outside. =20Paul di=
dn't have to close his eyes to imagine him standing there, looking down th=
e short hall which passed the little downstairs bathroom and ended in the =
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e had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were m=
ore than cruel =97 they were insane, and that changed all. =20=
He tried and saw the brownish droplets of Betadine flying from the blade o=
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gun, with a long slash of bright metal now scarring its barrel, lay in the=
dust. =20I knew the snow would cover him up, and I thought the=
spring melt would carry him away if I left him in the stream-bed. =20T=
here were perhaps seventy acres of open ground between the house and the e=
dge of the forest=A0=97 the snow-cover over it was a perfect and blazing w=
hite. =20But if you want me to take you=
away, to scare you or involve you or make you cry or grin, yeah. =20But i=
n here all was silence as the three men, two white and one black, waited t=
o see if Misery would live. =20The hubs of the whee=
lchair had not actually scored through the paint, as he had feared, but on=
ly scuffed it. =20He was suddenly, utterly sure that she me=
ant to pull the knife from the wall and castrate him with it. =
=20But it was pretty minor-league stuff; the highest his te=
mperature had ever gone was 100. =20He reversed away from the do=
or, turned the chair, and backed up so he could work on the other mark. =
=20Then she twisted the nozzle off and walked back along t=
he hose's length, looping it over her arm. =20Neatly written in black ink =
below the clipping was: Bakersfield Journal, May 30th, 1938. =20I =
won't need them much longer this winter, though see how it's melting on it=
s own? =20""This says they can't execute the lien on you unless the bill =
remains unpaid by March 25th. =20"For a moment, in his anger =
and dopey befuddlement, he had lost sight of the hazy, frightening concept=
inherent in that phrase pre-op shot. =20At =
some point the laughter turned to horrible dry sobs that awoke pain even i=
n what remained of his left thumb, and when that happened he was finally a=
ble to stop. =20There had been no oppo=
rtunity to change since then, not for Ian, not for any of them. =20His =
face, however, was pale and serious=A0=97 very much the face of a conscien=
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, could be milked for suspense. =20He rolled clumsily onto his st=
omach burrowed one arm deep under the mattress, and brought out one of the=
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and thus defused) her rage even more; he saw she now didn't even know if s=
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ders rounding the pink housecoat, her hair like some battered helmet.</fon=
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