[11941] in libertarians
Re [19]:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anna Tuttle)
Mon Jul 23 21:10:33 2007
From: "Anna Tuttle" <cirstoforomartinus@ili.org>
To: "Libanissimo" <libanissimo@mit.edu>
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<p><font =20color=3D"#FFFFF1">Historical stuff. =
=20It may not fit.=20"At the corners of her mouth=
dimples appeared briefly in the solidity of flesh and then disappeared. =
=20It was only after midnight, an hou=
r after Geoffrey had ridden into the gathering storm to try and fetch the =
doctor, that the midwife had grown alarmed. =20He got his right kne=
e under him, reached up clumsily with the coverlet (which was damp with ch=
ampagne and striped with smeary black swaths of ash), and began to beat at=
the flames. =20"I'm going to trust you,=BB=
she said finally and turned away, closing the door but not bothering to lo=
ck it. =20The first was that Annie Wilkes had a great deal of Novril=
(she had in fact, a great many drugs of all kinds).The cloud was back. =
=20The sound swelled endlessly. =20No singing. =
=20all without a single murmur from the authorities. =20"Jus=
t means you can't sell it.</font></p>
<p><font =20color=3D"#FFFFF0">He remembered the =
way the living room had looked, with sugar-glazed dishes everywhere. =
=20Paul was not particularly sensitive, even though he had been a heav=
y smoker for nearly eighteen years, but his breathing had stopped nonethel=
ess on at least one occasion (there might have been others, in the haze, t=
hat he did not remember). =20He turned back to the wor=
d processor and wrote fast, almost bludgeoning the keys:The kid heard a so=
und in the back of the building and although the thought of rats crossed h=
is mind, he turned the corner anyway =97 it was too early to go home becau=
se school didn't let out for another hour and a half and he had gone truan=
t at lunch. =20He smelled something sour that he automatically =
associated with hospitals=A0=97 Lysol, maybe. =20Maybe th=
e rest of you forgot what happened last week, but the stone idol never for=
gets. =20The fever had probably been caused more by h=
is general run- down condition than any specific infection, and an oogy ol=
d fever was no problem for Annie; among her other souvenirs, Annie had Kef=
lex and Ampicillin up the old kazoo. =20Unti=
l he could do that, she would have him on a chain as well as in a wheelcha=
ir=A0=97 a chain of Novril capsules. =20No one is =
taking their homes or auctioning their furnishings down at the town hall. =
=20Following the amputation of his thu=
mb there had been a dim period when Paul's greatest single accomplishment,=
other than working on the novel, had been to keep track of the days. =
=20On either side of the doorway, about =
eight inches up from the floor, was a black mark=A0=97 they had been left,=
he understood at once, by the hubs of the wheelchair when he forced it th=
rough. =20And here was a startling picture from the Rock=
y Mountain News, a photo of Annie sitting calmly in her holding cell and r=
eading Misery's Quest. =20"I'm sorry I hit =
you, Geoffrey =97 truly sorry, my dear old man, and I'm sure you know it =97=
but I must. =20That's a lot of bags for a fe=
w scraps of cloth, Paul thought, but he knew that she would have plenty to=
put in them before she was done.=20The gotta, as in: "I think I'll stay u=
p another fifteen-twenty minutes, honey, I gotta see how this chapter come=
s out. =20She had dragged him from the wreck of his car and inste=
ad of calling the police or an ambulance she had installed him in her gues=
t-room, put IV drips in his arms and a shitload of dope in his body. =
=20"And he had returned to his cal?che without so much as a response=
to Geoffrey's question. =20He had written back=
, a brief note of congratulations and admiration=A0=97 a note which hinted=
not at all at certain questions concerning Mrs Roman D. =
=20He sat in his chair, eyes half-closed, hoping madly that he ha=
d gotten the chair back where it had been (or at least close enough to it =
so she wouldn't notice), hoping that she would take his sweat-drenched fac=
e and quivering body simply as reactions to missing his medication, hoping=
most of all that he hadn't left a track=A0=97 It was as the door swung op=
en that he looked, down and saw that by looking for individual tracks with=
such agonized concentration, he had ignored a whole buffalo run: the boxe=
s of Novril were still in his lap. =20and then, somet=
ime later, he heard the stealthy noises he had been afraid of: the low, mo=
mentary scuff-and-scurry of the rats. =
=20Glimmering on her wrists and fastening her to the lowest branch of the=
eucalyptus, which was the only tree in the clearing, was something the Bo=
urkas had apparently taken a fancy to before sending Baron Heidzig into th=
e mouth of the idol and to his undoubtedly terrible death: the Baron's blu=
ed steel handcuffs. =20When he continued to pull away from=
the needle, mewling and pleading, Annie suggested that if that was really=
the way he felt, maybe she just ought to use the knife on his throat and =
be done with it. =20The car went over the cliff, and all the kid=
s in the theater were cheering because Rocket Man got out, but I wasn't ch=
eering, Paul.</font></p>
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