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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    1:02 pm
    @@@@@ Once in their house, they have a new tax,
    @@@@@ Once in their house, they have a new tax, called property taxThen, they buy a new car, new furniture and new appliances to match [heir new houseAil of a sudden, they wake up and their liabilities column is full of mortgage debt and credit-card debt
    They're now trapped in the rat race The process repeats itself More money and higher taxes, also called bracket creep, A credit card comes in the mail A loan company calls and says their greatest "asset," their home, has appreciated in valueThe company offers a "bill consolidation" loan, because their credit is so good, and tells them the intelligent thing to do is clear off the high-interest consumer debt by paying off their credit cardAnd besides, interest on their home is a tax deductionThey go for it, and pay off those high-interest credit cardsThey breathe a sigh of reliefTheir credit cards are paid offThey've now folded their consumer debt into their home mortgage Their payments go down because they extend their debt over 30 years It is the smart thing to do
    Their neighbor calls to invite them to go shopping-the Memorial Day sale is onA chance to save some moneyThey say to themselves, "I won't buy anything But just in case they find something, they tuck that clean credit card inside their wallet
    I run into this young couple all the timeTheir names change, but their financial dilemma is the sameThey come to one of my talks to hear what I have to sayThey ask me, "Can you tell us how to make more money?" Their spending habits have caused them to seek more income
    They don't even know that the trouble is really how they choose to spend the money they do have, and that is the real cause of their financial struggleIt is caused by financial illiteracy and not understanding the difference between an asset and a liabil
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    What is it, then? Yehudah Halevy said Israel is the heart of all nationsWhat attacks the body attacks the heartAnd the heart is also the conscience, which suffers for the sins of the nationsHe logo louis vuitton shrugs once more, does not differentiate between saying aloud what he thinks or merely moving his lipsIt's an interesting problem, but personally I think a Jew is a Jew because he suffers
    Why?
    So we will deserve the Messiah? The old man no longer knowsIt makes us better and worse than the goyim, he thinks
    But the child must always be given an answerHe rouses himself, chloe black concentrates and says without certainty, It is so we will lastHe speaks again, wholly lucid for a momentWe are a harried people, beset by oppressorsWe must always journey from disaster to disaster, and it makes us stronger and weaker than other men, makes us love and hate the other Juden more than other menWe have suffered so much that we know how to endureWe will always endure
    The balenciaga handbag boy understands almost nothing of this, but he has heard the words and they engrave a memory which perhaps he will exhume laterHe looks at his grandfather, at the wrinkled corded hands and the anger, the febrile intelligence, in his pale old-man's eyesIt is the only word Joey Goldstein absorbsAlready he has forgotten most of the shame and fear of his beatingHe fingers the gucci fabric plaster on his temple, wonders if he can go out to play

    The poor are the great voyagersThere are always new businesses, new jobs, new places to live, new expectations evolving into old familiar failures
    There is the candy store in the East Side, which fails, and another which fails, and still anotherThere are movements: to the Bronx, back to Manhattan, to candy stores in replica prada Brook
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    1:02 pm
    @@@@@Every time he leans back he can feel the
    @@@@@Every time he leans back he can feel the potted palm against his hair so that he finds himself leaning forward breathing the smoke from MrWell, you got to see, sir, that we're entitled to a little profit, I mean after all that's what makes the wheels of business go round, and you wouldn't want us to be working for you for nothing with our product any more than you'd want to work for someone elseThat'd hardly be business, now, would it? The fifth drink is almost empty, and his jaws clamp spongilyThe cigarette is a little remote from his lips(I gotta slow down on the drinking
    A good point, son, a good point, but there's also the question of making something cheaper than the next feller, and that's business too, competitionYou're out for yourself, and I'm out for myself, and that's the way things work
    Yes, sir, I see what you meanFor a moment the whole thing is in danger of revolving and revolving in his head, and he thinks of flailing out, breathing some airLet's look at it from this angle
    Who's that little blonde girl in the show, Brown? Know her?
    (He doesn't Well, yes, sir, but frankly you wouldn't be wanting to know herShe's gone to the well a little too often and, well, frankly there's doctors involvedI know a place though, sir, decent respectable
    In the lobby the hat-check girl can hear him phoningHe leans against the wall in danger of supporting himself with his face against the phoneThe line is busy, and for an instant he wants to cry
    Hello, Eloise? he asksThe woman's voice crackles at him from the other end

    It's more fun being out with the gang from the office on a tear
    I tell ya I never saw anything like it, picking up a half dollar like that, why, she just picked it right off the edge of the tableI suppose if it wasn't the place where I saw it you'd have to go to Paris or a nigger whorehouse anyway
    It takes all kinds to make a world
    Yeh, that's about the way I look at it, there's a lot of things go on in people's heads you don't know nothing about
    What do you figure goes on in the Chief's head?
    Uh-uh, we ain't talking shop tonight, that's understoodCome on, let's start a round going
    6:51 am
    @@@@@"You can say anything you like, Rhett, but
    @@@@@"You can say anything you like, Rhett, but it won't
    change
    the truthI love you and you love me and we made love to prove it to
    each other Rhett drank the whiskeyThen he laughed harshly"I
    never thought you were a silly little romantic, ScarlettYou used to have some sense in your hard little head
    A primitive, hasty coupling should never be confused with love
    Though
    God knows it happens often enough to fill churches with wedding
    ceremonies Scarlett continued to walk
    "You can talk till you're blue, but that won't change anything
    She put a hand to her face and wiped away the tears that were
    pouring
    from her eyesShe was very close to him nowShe could smell the
    salt on hisskin, the whiskey on his breath"You do love me," she
    sobbed, "you do, you do The quilt fell to the floor when she let go
    of it to reach out to Rhett"Take me in your arms and tell me you
    don't love me and then I'll believe itRhett's hands abruptly caught
    her head and he kissed her with bruising possessive strength
    Scarlett's arms closed behind his neck as his hands moved down her
    throat and her shoulders, and she gave herself up to abandonment
    But
    Rhett's fingers suddenly closed around her wrists and he pried her
    arms
    apart, away from his neck, away from him, and his mouth was no
    longer
    seeking hers, his body was drawing away He cast her away, releasing her wrists, stumbling backwards in
    the first uncontrolled action she had ever seen him take"Yes, by
    Christ! I do want you, and sicken for youYou're a poison in my
    blood, Scarlett, a sickness of my soulI've known men with a hunger
    for opium that was like my hunger for youI know what happens to
    an
    addictHe becomes enslaved, then destr
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    1:08 pm
    @@@@@Matt's daughter Peggy showed her the
    @@@@@Matt's daughter
    Peggy
    showed her the simplest steps of the reel, and there was, in some
    strange way, a rightness to learning from a seven-year-old childAnd
    a rightness to the outspoken encouragement and even the teasing of
    the
    others, adults and children alike, because it was the same for Peggy as
    it was for herShe danced until her knees were wobbly, then she
    collapsed, laughing, in a heap on the floor at Old James' feet, and he
    patted her head as if she were a puppy, and that made her laugh all
    the
    more, until she was gasping for breath when she cried out, "I'm having
    so much fun!" There had been very little fun in Scarlett's life, and
    she wanted it to last forever, this clean, uncomplicated joyfulness
    She looked at her big, happy cousins, and she was proud of their
    strength and vigor and talent for music and for life
    "We're a fine lot, we O'HarasThere's none can touch us Scarlett
    heard her father's voice, boasting, saying the words he had so often
    said to her, and she knew for the first time what he had meant"Ah,
    Jamie, what a wonderful night this was," she said when he was
    walking
    her homeScarlett was so tired she was practically stumbling, but she
    was chattering like a magpie, too exhilarated to accept the peaceful
    silence of the sleeping city"We're a fine lot, we O'HarasHis strong hands caught her around the waist and he lifted
    her up and swung her in a giddy circle
    "There's none can touch us," he said when he set her downMiss Scarlett!" Pansy woke her at seven with a message
    from her grandfather"He wants you right this minute The old
    soldier was formally dressed and fresh-shavenHe looked
    disapprovingly at Scarlett's hastily combed hair and dressing gown
    from
    his imperial position in the great armchair at the head of the dining
    room table"My breakfast is unsatisfactory," he announced
    Scarlett stared at him, slack-jawedWhat did his breakfast have to do
    with her? Did he think she'd cooked it? Maybe he had lost his mindPa had had more than he could bear that's
    all, and so he retreated to a time and a world where the terrible'
    things hadn't happenedHe was like a confused childBut there's
    nothing confused or child-like about GrandfatherHe knows exactly
    where and who he is and what he's doingWhat does he mean by
    waking
    me up after only a couple of hours' sleep and complaining to me about
    his breakfast? Her voice was carefully calm when she spoke"What's
    wrong with your breakfast, Grandfather?"
    "It's tasteless and it's co
    6:51 am
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    “What’s going on?” asked Bourne angrily
    “Someone’s come outside with a bagful of goodies and going to the car,” said Conklin in
    English
    “For Christ’s sake, stop him!”
    “We’re not sure it’s the Jackal,” interrupted Krupkin“The clothes are the same, even to the arm
    sling, but there are physical differences—”
    “Then he wants you to think it isn’t him!” said Jason emphaticallyWhat?”
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    outthinking youHe may or may not know that he’s been spotted, the car picked up, but he has to
    assume the worst and act accordinglyHow long before we get there?”
    “The way my outrageously reckless young comrade is driving, I’d say three or four minutes
    “Krupkin!” The voice burst from the radio speaker“Four other people have come outside—
    three men and a womanThey’re running to the cheap chanel purses car!”
    “What did he say?” asked BourneAlex translated and Jason frowned“Hostages?” he said
    quietly, as if to himself“He just blew it!” Medusa’s Delta leaned forward and touched Krupkin’s
    shoulder“Tell your man to get out of there the moment that car takes off and he knows where it’s
    headingTell him to be obvious, to blow the hell out of his horn while he passes the armory, which
    he must pass from one way or the other
    “My dear fellow!” exploded the dior saddle Soviet intelligence officer“Would you mind telling me why I
    should issue such an order?”
    “Because your colleague was right and I was wrongThe man in the sling isn’t CarlosThe
    Jackal’s inside, waiting for the cavalry to pass the fort so he can get away in another car—if there is
    a cavalry
    “In the name of our revered Karl Marx, do explain how you reached this contradictory
    conclusion!”
    “SimpleEven if you could, you wouldn’t shoot up that car on hermes purse the road,
    would you?”
    “AgreedThere are four other people inside, all no doubt innocent Soviet citizens forced to
    appear otherwise
    “Hostages?”
    “Yes, of course
    “When was the last time you heard of people running like hell into a situation where they could
    become hostages? Even if they were under a gun from a doorway, one or two, if not all of them,
    would try to race behind other cars for protection
    “My word—”
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    1:10 pm
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    There are no other houses close to this oneI've been watching since the sun was still white hot
    in the sky, and I don't think there is a dog, either
    I ease up from my crouch, my calves screaming in protest, but keep hunched at the waist, trying
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    the starsThere are no sounds of cars on the road
    I know what they will realize when they return, the monsters who look like a nice couple in
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    be far awayI really hope they are going out for a night on the townThey
    keep our habits so perfectly, it's hard to see any differenceWhich is how they won in the first
    place
    The fence around the yard is only waist highI get over easily, noiselesslyThe yard is tiffany heart tag gravel,
    though, and I have to walk carefully to keep my weight from shifting itI make it to the patio
    slabThe starlight is enough to see that the rooms are empty of movementThis
    couple goes for a spartan look, and I'm gratefulIt makes it harder for someone to hideOf
    course, that leaves no place oyster rolex for me to hide, either, but if it comes to hiding for me, it's too late
    anyway
    I ease the screen door open first, and then the glass doorI place my feet
    carefully on the tile, but this is just out of habitNo one is waiting for me here
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    "Is it soon? Your show?"
    "In less than a week
    674
    "Your paintingsare they
    on the mainland? At the gallery?"
    Wireman and I exchanged a lookEverything
    else can waituntil after you have your show
    Your moment in the sunAre you selling them? wallet chanel The
    ship pictures?"
    Wireman and I exchanged another look, and the
    message in his eyes was very clear: Don't upset
    her
    "They're marked NFS, ElizabethThat means-"
    "I know what it means, Edgar, I didn't fall out of
    an orange tree yesterday Inside their deep
    pockets of replica gucci wrinkles, caught in a face that was
    receding toward death, her eyes flashedHowever many there are, you must sell them
    And however hard it is for youBreak them up,
    send them to the four windsDo you understand
    me?"
    "Yes
    "Will you do it?"
    I didn't know if I would or not, but I tiffany price recognized
    her signs of growing agitation from my own not-so675
    distant past At that point, I would have
    promised her to jump to the moon in seven-league
    boots, if it would have eased her mind
    "Even then they may not be safe," she mused in an
    almost-horrified Tiffany Bracelets voice
    "Stop, now," I said, and patted her hand"Stop
    thinking about thisWe'll talk more after your showand
    you, Edgar, will be able to pay attentionDo you
    have daughters? I seem to remember that you do
    "Yes, and they're staying on the mainland with
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    1:02 pm
    @@@@@She cut herself off from the rest of her
    @@@@@She cut
    herself off from the rest of her family after she
    and John came back to Duma in 1951
    where our sister?
    "And Adriana? What about her?"
    He shrugged"Quién sabe? History ate her up
    Shannington thinks she and her new husband
    probably went back to Atlanta after the search for
    the babby-uns was called off; they weren't here
    for the memorial service
    "She might have blamed Daddy for what happened,"
    Jack said"Or maybe she just couldn't stand
    to hang around
    I remembered Adriana's pouty I-want-to-besomewhere-
    else look in the family portrait and
    thought Wireman might be onto something there
    "In any case," Wireman went on, "she has to be
    dead, tooIf she was alive, she'd be almost a
    hundredOdds of that are mighty slim
    where our sister?
    Wireman gripped my arm and turned me to face him
    His face looked drawn and old"Muchacho, if
    something supernatural killed Miss Eastlake in
    795
    order to shut her up, maybe we ought to take the
    hint and get off Duma Key
    "I think it might be too late for that," I said
    "Why?"
    "Because she's awake againElizabeth said so
    before she died
    "Who's awake?"
    "Perse," I said
    "Who is that?"
    "I don't know," I said"But I think we're
    supposed to drown her back to sleep
    ix
    The picnic basket had been scarlet when it was new,
    and had faded only a little over its long life,
    perhaps because so much of it had been spent
    tucked away in the atticI began by hefting one
    of the handlesThe damn thing was pretty heavy,
    all right; I guessed about twenty poundsThe
    wicker on the bottom, although tightly woven, had
    sagged down someI set it back on the carpet,
    pushed the thin wooden carry-handles down to
    796
    either side, and flipped back the lid on hinges
    that squeaked slightly
    There were colored pencils, most of which had been
    sharpened down to s
    6:50 am
    @@@@@' Or `I'll get another jobYou can't push me
    @@@@@' Or `I'll get another jobYou can't push me around' Or `I like this job because it's secure' Instead of, `Is there something I'm missing here?' which breaks the emotional thought, and gives you time to think clearly
    I must admit, it was a great lesson to be gettingTo know when someone was speaking out of emotions or out of clear thoughtIt was a lesson that served me well for lifeEspecially when I was the one speaking out of reaction and not from clear thought
    As we headed back to the store, rich dad explained that the rich really did "make money They did not work for itHe went on to explain that when Mike and I were casting 5-cent pieces out of lead, thinking we were making money, we were very close to thinking the way the rich thinkThe problem was that it was illegal for us to do itIt was legal for the government and banks to do it, but not usHe explained that there are legal ways to make money and illegal ways
    Rich dad went on to explain that the rich know that money is an illusion, truly like the carrot for the donkeyIt's only out of fear and greed that the illusion of money is held together by billions of people thinking that money is realMoney is really made upIt was only because of the illusion of confidence and the ignorance of the masses that the house of cards stood standing"In fact," he said, "in many ways the donkey's carrot was more valuable than money
    He talked about the gold standard that America was on, and that each dollar bill was actually a silver certificateWhat concerned him was the rumor that we would someday go off the gold standard and our dollars would no longer be silver certificates
    "When that happens, boys, all hell is going to break looseThe poor, the middle class and the ignorant will have their lives ruined simply because they will continue to believe that money is real and that the company they work for, or the government, will look after them
    We really did not understand what he was saying that day, but over the years it made more and more sense
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    As he climbed into his pickup truck, outside of his little convenience store, he said, "Keep working boys, but the sooner you forget about needing a paycheck, the easier your adult life will be
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    1:02 pm
    @@@@@We have all heard stories of a businessman
    @@@@@We have all heard stories of a businessman who works hard to earn moneyHe works hard to be a good provider for his wife and childrenHe spends long hours at the office and brings work home on weekendsOne day he comes home to an empty houseHis wife has left with the kidsHe knew he and his wife had problems, but rather than work to make the relationship strong, he stayed busy at workDismayed, his performance at work slips and he loses his job
    Today, I often meet people who are too busy to take care of their wealthAnd there are people too busy to take care of their healthThe cause is the sameThey're busy, and they stay busy as a way of avoiding something they do not want to faceNobody has to tell themIn fact, if you remind them, they often respond with anger or irritation
    If they aren't busy at work or with the kids, they're often busy watching TV, fishing, playing golf or shoppingYet, deep down they know they are avoiding something important That's the most common form of lazinessLaziness by staying busy
    So what is the cure for laziness? The answer is a little greed
    For many of us, we were raised thinking of greed or desire as bad"Greedy people are bad people," my mom use to sayYet, we all have inside of us this yearning to have nice things, new things or exciting thingsSo to keep that emotion of desire under control, often parents found ways of suppressing that desire with guilt
    "You only think about yourselfDon't you know you have brothers and sisters?" was one of my mom's favoritesOr "You want me to buy you what?" was a favorite of my dad
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    "Who else?"
    "I figure you need a good man since you got a coupla fug-upsHow about takin' Stanley?"
    "Sure
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    1:02 pm
    @@@@@ All right, Casimir, that's a good boy The
    @@@@@
    All right, Casimir, that's a good boy
    The little girls are snuffling their noses, looking about with interest now and indignationCasimir did it, they whisper, Casimir did it
    Miss Marsden hears them at lastDid you do it, Casimir?
    Me, teacher, why would I do it?
    Come up here, Casimir
    He walks up to her desk, leans against her arm when she puts it about himLooking at the class and winking as he lays his head on her shoulder
    Now, Casimir, don't do that
    Don't do what, teacher?
    Did you put the gum on the seats? Tell me the truth, I won't punish you
    There isn't any gum on Casimir's seat, Miss Marsden, Alice Rafferty says
    Why isn't there any? she asks him
    I dunno, teacher, maybe the kid who did it was scared of me
    Who did it, Casimir?
    Oh, I dunno, teacherDo ya want me to help clean the seats?
    Casimir, you should try to be a good boyHe walks back to his seat and on the pretense of helping the other boys, he whispers to the girls

    In the summer the kids stay out late at night, play hide-and-seek in the empty lots, bathe in the hydrants, which have been turned on for themThere's always some excitement in summerA house is burning down, or they can go up on the rooftops and peek at the big kids fooling around with the girlsIf it's hot enough they can sneak into the movies 'cause the exit doors are left open for ventilation
    Once or twice they have real good luck
    Hey, Polack, there's a drunk asleep in the alley behind Salvatore's house
    He heeled?
    How do I know? the other kid curses
    They tiptoe up the alley, debouch into a deserted lot behind the tenements
    Whadeya mean gaw ahead, how we gonna split?
    You can split it
    He creeps up to the drunk, feels about his body slowly for a wa
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    Pauline and Eulalie leaned forward, smiling anxiouslyJerome took a
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    and
    deposited it in front of PaulineThe ceremony was repeated for
    Eulalie, then for ScarlettHer fingers itched to grab her spoonBut
    she kept her hands in her lap while her grandfather served himself and
    tasted the soupHe shrugged louis vuitton travel eloquent dissatisfaction and dropped
    his spoon into hisbowlEulalie let out a strangled sobYou old
    monster! Scarlett thoughtShe began to eat her soupIt was a
    velvety richness of flavorShe tried to catch Eulalie's eyes so that
    she could show her aunt that she was enjoying the soup, but Eulalie
    was
    downcastPauline's spoon was in the bowl, like her seamaster omega father's
    Scarlett lost all sympathy for her auntsIf they were going, to be
    terrorized this easily, they deserved to go hungryShe wasn going to
    let the old man keep her from her dinner! Pauline asked her father
    something, but because she was speaking French, Scarlett had no idea
    what her aunt had saidHer grandfather's reply was so brief, tiffany cross and
    Pauline's face so white, that he must have said something very
    insultingScarlett began to get angryHe's going to ruin
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    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    1:10 pm
    @@@@@ His wide back bent over the cradle, his
    @@@@@
    His wide back bent over the cradle, his deep voice making silly
    baby-talk sounds-never in all the world was there a man so besotted
    with a babyHe was going to be so happy when she told himShe
    could
    see his dark eyes flashing with the joy of it, his white smile gleaming
    in hispirate's faceScarlett smiled, too, thinking of itI'm happy,
    too, she thoughtThis is the way it's supposed to be when you have a
    baby, Melly always said so"Oh, my God," she whispered aloud
    Melly
    died trying to have one, and my insides are all messed up, DrMeade
    said, after I had the miscarriageThat's why I didn't know I was
    pregnant, I didn't even notice I missed my time of month, because it's
    been so undependable for so long
    Suppose having this baby kills me? Oh, God, please, please, God,
    don't
    let me die just when I finally get what I need to be happy
    She crossed herself again and again in confused entreaty, propitiation,
    superstitionThen she shook her head angrilyWhat was she doing?
    Just being sillyShe was strong and healthyNot like Melly at
    all
    Why, Mammy always said it was downright shameful the way she
    dropped a
    baby with hardly more fuss than an alley cat
    She was going to do just fine, and her baby would be fine, tooAnd
    her life would be fine, with Rhett loving her, loving their baby
    They'd be the happiest, lovingest family in the whole world
    Gracious, she hadn't even thought of Miss EleanorTalk about
    baby-loving! Miss Eleanor was going to pop her buttons with pride
    I can see her now, at the Market, telling everybody, even the bent-up
    old man who sweeps out the trashThis baby's going to be the talk of
    Charleston before it even draws its first breathThat's where I should be goin
    6:50 am
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    and I could maim or kill half a dozen people! The risk’s too great!”
    “You don’t have a choiceIf the Jackal gets by me—and I’ll know it if he does—I’ll throw in a
    grenade and kill twenty
    “You son of a bitch!”
    “Believe it, BenWhere Carlos is concerned I’m a son of a bitchI can’t afford him any longer,
    the world can’t afford himMove!”
    The trainer named Benjamin spat in Bourne’s face, then turned and began fighting his way to the
    guardhouse and the unseen corpse of the colonel beyondAlmost unconsciously Jason wiped his
    face with the back of his hand, his concentration solely on the fenced parking area, his eyes darting
    from fake prada one pocket of shadows to another, trying to center in on the origins of the automatic gunfire,
    yet knowing it was pointless; the Jackal had changed position by thenHe counted the other
    vehicles in addition to the fuel truck; there were nine parked by the fence—two station wagons,
    four sedans and three suburban vans, all American-made or simulated as suchCarlos was
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    away from the open gate in the fence that permitted access to the guardhouse and thus to the tunnel
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    You’re too close, David! Keep goingJason Bourne knows what to doTrust him!
    Aaughh! He spun his body over the fence; the handle of his sheathed bayonet embedded itself in
    his kidneyThere is no pain! You’re too close, David—JasonListen to Jason!
    The searchlights—someone had pressed something and they went crazy, spinning around in
    circles, abrupt, blinding, out of control! Where would Carlos go? Where could he hide? The beams
    were erratically piercing everywhere! Then, from an opening that he could not see from across the
    fenced-in area, two police cars raced inside, their sirens quilted chanel bag blaringUniformed men leaped out from
    every door, and contrary to anything he expected to see, each scrambled to the borders of the fence,
    behind the cars and the vans, one after another dashing from one vehicle to another to the open gate
    that led to the guardhouse and the tunnel
    There was a break in space, in timeIn men! The last four escapees from the second car were
    suddenly three—and only moments later did the fourth appear-but he was not the same—the
    uniform was not the same! There were specks of orange and red, and the visored officer’s cap was
    laced with gold ribbing, the visor itself too prominent for the American army, the crown of the cap
    too pointedAnd, suddenly, Bourne understoodFragments of his memories
    spiraled back years to cartier pasha watch Madrid or Casavieja, when he was tracing the Jackal’s contracts with the
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    compound, and as his Russian was fluent, he was using the high-ranking uniform to make his
    escape from Novgorod
    Jason lurched to his feet, his automatic drawn, and ran across the graveled lot, his left hand
    reaching into his field jacket pocket for his second-to-last flareHe pulled the release and hurled the
    fired stalk above the cars, beyond the fenceBenjamin would not see it from the guardhouse and
    mistake it for the signal to close the gates of the tunnel; that signal would come shortly—in
    seconds, perhaps—but at the moment it was premature, again perhaps by gold gucci seconds
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    I clenched my teeth in frustration
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    Jack and Wireman also shook hands with Pam and the
    girls
    "After all the calls, I'm pleased to meet you in
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    "The same goes back to you," Pam said, sizing him
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    "Art is never easy, young woman," Elizabeth said
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    slumped in her wheelchair only a week ago? Tonight
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    Wireman moved to grasp the handles of her chair,
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    came bursting in, bloody and wide-eyed, Wireman
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    840
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    to remind myself, that had been raised on shows
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    "I don't want to bruise your self-esteem," I said,
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    Jack was looking at the narrow red mark on my
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    "I don't think anyone will ever know all of it," I
    said, "but I know who that thing was when it was
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    841
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