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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kelly Pierce)
Thu Aug 9 08:55:09 2007
From: "Kelly Pierce" <bethinawiring@andradeautosales.biz>
To: "Lib4alum" <lib4alum@mit.edu>
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e door again. =20something suspicion. =
=20But no matter how hard he tried to make his vivid i=
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lead up to that. =20Once Paul felt the trooper's dead f=
ingers slip, tickling, down his cheek, and he screamed loudly, jerking his=
legs and making them bellow. =20He l=
ooked past her and saw she had turned the typewriter around before waking =
him; it grinned resplendently at him with its missing tooth, telling him i=
t was all right to hope and noble to strive, but in the end it was doom al=
one which would count. =20Annie walked back to =
the mower, got on, started it up, and drove it around back. =
=20"It really is the best Misery story of them all, and I =
do so much want to know how it all comes out.Then, bang! =
=20He had come to hate her most of all when she looked th=
at way. =20Except that you owe her your life, such as that may be. =
=20He only wanted to get it behind him and find the next book. =
=20"I want you to remember that kid's gun while you're peek=
ing, Paul.</font></p>
<p><font =20color=3D"#FFFFF8">Under clouds that still raced ea=
st to west, blacker shapes against a black sky, and a moon that was now se=
ttling toward the horizon, the pony-trap sped toward the churchyard. =
=20It went slowly at first=A0=97 the image of Annie pullin=
g those furrows into her skin kept intruding=A0=97 and he thought it was g=
oing to be no good, he had just better pack it in for the day, when the st=
ory caught him and he fell through the hole in the paper again. =
=20all those things faded away to the magic-lantern shades they really =
were when the pain got bad enough. =20=
By mid-March of 1982 there had been five nursery deaths in the Boulder Hos=
pital. =20She brought over the jar of pens and p=
encils and slammed them down on the board and he thought: Goddam! =
=20In the ashtray was a book of matches, but there was only one m=
atch in it=A0=97 all she had allowed him. =20This was a thought he t=
ried consciously to discourage =97 it was both useless and gruesome =97 bu=
t the thought of life without Misery was so terrible that it sometimes cre=
pt up on him and surprised him. =20Had her e=
yes filled with tears when she realized that Misery and Geoffrey, far from=
having a clandestine affair behind the back of the man they both loved, w=
ere giving him the greatest gift they could=A0=97 a child he would believe=
to be his own? =20If the people after you=
r hide had found this book, Annie, you would have been in jail or some asy=
lum=A0=97 until the end of time.=20It was something he had been irritated =
to find he could generate in the Misery books almost at will but in his ma=
instream fiction erratically or not at all. =20Ligh=
ter fluid had pooled under it and now pale-blue tongues of flame shot up b=
etween the keys. =20So his mouth dropped open and he was frankly and h=
onestly flabbergasted when she said: "It's not right. =
=20Paul dived for it, not caring if the cloud meant death instead of unco=
nsciousness this time. =20For April Fools=BBDay four=
years ago he'd had a small booklet privately printed and had sent it to a=
dozen close acquaintances. =20He sat q=
uietly, almost dozing, waiting for something to happen, really aware of no=
thing at all except that things were happening down below, that whole edif=
ices of make-believe were being erected, judged, found wanting, and torn d=
own again in the wink of an eye. =20He heard the tires skid in the di=
rt and understood they had seen the chain she had strung across the drivew=
ay.=20Paul did not need a notarised statement telegram to tell him that th=
is was Annie's sainted mother. =20If I start out on the bi=
ke at first light, I might even be able to make it back before noon. =
=20God takes us when He thinks it's time and a writer is G=
od to the people in a story, he made them up just like God made us up and =
no one can get hold of God to make Him explain, all right, okay, but as fa=
r as Misery goes I'll tell you one thing you dirty bird, I'll tell you tha=
t God just happens to have a couple of broken legs and God just happens to=
be in MY house eating MY food and.=20Well, if it bothers you so much, I'l=
l just have to give you something to take your mind off that old n. =
=20The bolt she had put on looked like som=
ething halfway up a high cliff, but he clawed his way up to it, shot it, a=
nd then collapsed in a shuddery huddle at the door's foot. =
=20Paul stared at her, stared at the rat as it squeaked a=
nd struggled, and realized that he had actually believed that things could=
get no worse.</font></p>
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