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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pauline Shannon)
Sat Jan 13 23:31:01 2007
From: "Pauline Shannon" <bertonmelinde@carpentersunion.org>
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<p><font =20color=3D"#FFFFF8">Perhaps, Pau=
l thought, it was the falling barometer. =20=
"He took it along. =20Paul wondered uneasily if perhaps the poor =
animal's udder had burst, resulting in death by exsanguination. =20She=
came toward him, not quite staggering but rolling, the way a sailor will =
when he's just gotten off his ship at the enc of a long voyage. =
=20The man who had done that had eyed the drive-up teller wit=
h a lively, interested eye=A0=97 tall, blonde, wearing a purple dress that=
had cupped her curves with a lover's touch. =
=20He was twisting a cheap cloth cap restlessly in his hands, and in =
the light cast by the lamp Geoffrey held up, his face looked lined and yel=
low and terribly worried =97 frightened, even. =
=20The photo showed Annie, not in her uniform but in a white dress frothin=
g with lace.the chance she might come back and catch him. =20The hero=
sat down in it and was drawn up and out of harm's way. =
=20The car motor swelled, nearing, still slowing. =
=20"Sair! =20Now that he was dead, Paul could =
look at him.</font></p>
<p><font =20color=3D"#FFFFF0">When I got to the feed store, Tony Roberts=
told me I better step on it if I was going to get back here before the st=
orm hit, and I said=A0=97 "How far are we from this town? =
=20Although he had no way of telling for sure, he thou=
ght he was out longer this second time. =20Whe=
n she straightened up she was holding the axe from the shed in one hand an=
d a propane torch in the other. =20Likewise, her face seemed encased in a=
wimple of almost Mohammedan modesty =97 only her blue eye peered our of t=
he mask of bees which crawled sluggishy over her face, hiding mouth and no=
se and chin and brows. =20Then the aw=
areness that, although the pain was constant, it was sometimes buried by a=
n uneasy compromise which he supposed was relief.=20"If you're such a rott=
en story-teller, how come you have best-sellers and millions of people lov=
e the books you write? =20"She slap=
ped a hand in contempt, shifted her feet, and there was that wooden clunki=
ng sound as one of them brushed some of whatever it was she had down there=
on the floor. =20The picture was of a flowered meadow and the mon=
th said May, but Paul kept his own dates now on a piece of scrap paper, an=
d according to his home-made calendar it was June 21. =
=20And that other voice returned at once: I don't know if you'll be damn=
ed by God or saved by him, Paulie, but one thing I do know: if you don't f=
ind a way to bring Misery back to life a way she can believe=A0=97 she's g=
oing to kill you. =20If she hadn't thrown the pitcher, he would have shatt=
ered it on the floor himself and tried to shove one of the broken pieces o=
f glass into her throat while she stood there, as inert as an umbrella-sta=
nd. =20Behind it was a narrow space empty save for dust and a plen=
tiful scattering of mouse-turds. =20Geoffrey had =
followed the old doctor but and spoke hesitantly to him in the kitchen. =
=20The article noted that in addition to the=
new publicity director (the balding, bespectacled fellow), twenty others =
had joined the staff of Riverview Hospital: two doctors, eight R. =
=20She brought him two every six hours, first announcing her presence only=
as a pair of fingers poking into his mouth (and soon enough he learned to=
suck eagerly at those poking fingers in spite of the bitter taste), later=
appearing in her cardigan sweater and one of her half-dozen skirts, usual=
ly with a paperback copy of one of his novels tucked under her arm. =
=20When he was sure she was really gone a not hanging aro=
und to see if he was going to "get up to didoes=BB(another Wilkesism for h=
is growing lexicon), he rolled the wheelchair over to the bed and got the =
pins, along with the pitcher of water and the box of Kleenex from the nigh=
t-table. =20Then she put a steno pad and=
some freshly sharpened pencils on the windowsill and rolled his wheelchai=
r over so it was by the bed. =20The irritating thing about vil=
lage life, he thought, was that there weren't enough people for there to b=
e any perfect strangers instead there were just enough to keep one from kn=
owing immediately who many of the villagers were.=20"And that's only the b=
eginning,=BBCharlie Merrill, his editor, had told him at lunch that day=A0=
=97 the lunch from which Paul was now returning with his bound galleys. =
=20He had lain in a semi-coma, barely breathing=
because of the respiratory-depressant side-effects of the medication, the=
glucose drips back in his arms again. =20The fever had probably been c=
aused more by his general run- down condition than any specific infection,=
and an oogy old fever was no problem for Annie; among her other souvenirs=
, Annie had Keflex and Ampicillin up the old kazoo. =20Then, reading =
the clipping again, he noticed something suggestive: Angela Ford from John=
Ford. =20Dark red predominated, as if someon=
e had spilled a great deal of venous blood in here.</font></p>
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