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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Herschel Rhoades)
Sun Jan 14 15:18:56 2007
From: "Herschel Rhoades" <masahiromorganica@bpthosp.org>
To: "Os2ann.discuss" <os2ann.discuss@bloom-picayune.mit.edu>
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<p><font =20color=3D"#FFFFF0">"In that bedroom? =
=20The accidents had happened almost five years apart, in =
two different towns. =20There were three locks on this one =
as well, and it didn't even open on the outside=A0=97 or at least not dire=
ctly. =20Only when he let himself in=
to his apartment he knew it was the cleaning woman who had pulled the drap=
es, and although he fell down and had to smother a scream of fright when A=
nnie rose up like Cain from behind the sofa, it was just the cat, a cross-=
eyed Siamese named Dumpster he had gotten last month at the pound. =
=20Geoffrey stole one last look at her, and =
for just a moment those cornflower eyes flashed his way, warming him, fill=
ing him. =20Paul looked at the pile=
of paper sitting on the board beside the hateful Royal typewriter. =
=20Just the instant it cleared the doorframe=A0=97 a push=A0=
=97 The pin was simultaneously starting to bend and slip.She gave him a lo=
ok which was momentarily startled and narrowly suspicious. =20Be quiet.=
=20"Oh, I've heard that one before. =20=
It's far enough in so you can't see it from the road. =20He cou=
ld imagine all too well ("So vivid!</font></p>
<p><font =20color=3D"#FFFFF6">"He began to laugh =
then, and her face darkened for the first time since she had come back, an=
d she left the room with the manuscript under her arm. =20He fel=
t as he always did when he finished a book=A0=97 queerly empty, let down, =
aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity. =
=20He crawled into the parlor and that was when he heard the dro=
ne of an approaching motor. =20His thin arms were trembling, th=
e stump of his thumb aching feverishly, his forehead covered with a thin o=
il of sweat. =20The anger and humiliation sur=
ged again, awakening the first dull answering throb in his legs. =
=20Geoffrey realized with dazed wonder that it w=
as the same shirt Ian had worn to the Baron and Baroness's dinner party th=
ree nights ago. =20It would be yet awhile before his number-one=
fan brought him the old clacking Royal with the grinning gapped mouth and=
the Ducky Daddles voice, but Paul understood long before then that he was=
in a hell of a jam. =20Sitting there, head thrown=
back, face shiny with sweat, hair plastered to his forehead, Paul spoke o=
ne of them aloud now, almost as an incantation: "There may be fairies, the=
re may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves. =
=20He had a bad=A0=97 no, not just bad; terrible, horribl=
e=A0=97 moment when it seemed the wheelchair was not going to fit. =
=20Misery ran through the last four (or maybe it w=
as five) months of his life, all right, plenty of Misery, Misery day in an=
d Misery day out but surely that was too simple, surely=A0=97 Oh no, Paul.=
=20"She laughed merrily to show what =
a joke on her that would be, but Paul did not join her. =20A=
nnie stood watching them go, the rifle held in one hand, and then she came=
slowly back into the house. =20The little group=
s, neat at first, grew increasingly jagged as his hands began to tremble. =
=20A man who had been in a great deal more pai=
n, a man who had had nothing to hold onto, not even this shitty book. =
=20He didn't think he could have wriggled through one of those even=
on his fittest day, which this wasn't. =20The champagne bottle hadn't be=
en in the scenario, but that was minor compared with the woman's hideous v=
itality and his current painful uncertainty. =20Pulling his legs up=
onto the supports one at a time was the only part that hurt. =
=20""Didn't your mother ever tell you that the most expensive is not alw=
ays the best? =20Paul stared at her, stared at the rat as it=
squeaked and struggled, and realized that he had actually believed that t=
hings could get no worse. =20Having a nov=
el end exactly the way you thought it would when you started out would be =
like shooting a Titan missile halfway around the world and having the payl=
oad drop through a basketball hoop. =20They were not, by and large=
, stupid people, and many had had first-hand experience of such persecutio=
n.=20He put the knife on the night-table, hoisted himself into bed, then s=
lid it under the mattress.</font></p>
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