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| Monday, January 3rd, 2011 | | 10:55 am |
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@@@@@I told myself such feelings - @@@@@I told myself such feelings - which amounted to three-days-in-advance flop-sweat - were stupidI had once made a ten-million-dollar pitch to the StPaul City Council, which at that time had included a man who'd gone on to become the Governor of MinnesotaI'd seen two girls 235 through first dance recitals, cheerleading tryouts, driving lessons, and the hell of adolescenceWhat was showing some of my paintings to an art gallery guy compared to that? Nevertheless, I made my way up the stairs to Little Pink with leaden heels The sun was going down, flooding the big room with gorgeous and improbable tangerine light, but I felt no urge to try and capture it - not this eveningThe light called to me, just the sameAs the photograph of some long-gone love, happened on by accident while going through an old box of souvenirs, may call to you Even upstairs I could hear the grinding voice of the shellsI sat down and began poking at the clutter of items on my junk-table - a feather, a water-smoothed stone, a disposable lighter rinsed to an anonymous grayNow it wasn't Emily Dickinson I thought of, but some old folksong: Don't the sun look good, Mama, shinin through the treesNo trees out there, of course, but I could put one on the horizon if I wanted toI could put one out there for the red sunset to shine through 236 I wasn't afraid of being told I had no talentI was afraid of Signor Nannuzzi telling me I had a leetle talentOf having him hold his thumb and forefinger maybe a quarter of an inch apart and advising me to reserve a space at the Venice Sidewalk Art Festival, that I would certainly find success there, many tourists would surely be taken by my charming Dalí imitations And if he did that, held his thumb and forefinger a quarter of an inch apart and said leetle, what did I do then? Could some stranger's verdict take away my new confidence in myself, steal my peculiar new joy? "Maybe," I saidBecause painting pictures wasn't like putting up shopping malls The easiest thing would be just to cancel the appointmentexcept I'd sort of promised Ilse, and I wasn't in the habit of breaking the promises I made to my children My right arm was still itching, itching almost hard enough to hurt, but I barely noticedThere were eight or nine canvases lined up against the wall to my leftI turned toward them, thinking 237 I'd try to decide which ones were best, but I never so much as looked at them Tom Riley was standing at the head of the stairs He was naked except for a pair of light blue pajama pants, darker at the crotch and down the inside of one leg, where he had wet the | | Thursday, December 30th, 2010 | | 10:55 am |
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working hours as clerks or @@@@@After their working hours as clerks or laborers, former plantation owners took the streetcars or walked to the outskirts of the city to rebuild the two-mile oval of the Charleston Race Course and to plant the blood-soaked churned mud of the land around it with grass seed bought with combined widow's mitesLittle by little, by symbols and by inches, Charlestonians were regaining the essence of their beloved lost worldBut there was no room in it for anyone who didn't belong there couldn't hide her amazement at the orders Scarlett gave her when she was unlacing for bed the first night in the Butler house"Take the green walking-out costume I wore this morning and give it a good brushingThen take off every speck of trimming, including the gold buttons, and sew on some plain black buttons instead "Where I going to find any black buttons, Miss Scarlett?" "Don't bother me with fool questions like thatButler's maid-what's her name? CelieAnd wake me up tomorrow at five o'clock "Five o'clock?" "Are you deaf? You heard meI want that green outfit ready to put on when I get up Scarlett sank gratefully into the feather mattress and down pillows on the big bedIt had been an over-full, over-emotional dayMeeting Miss Eleanor, then shopping, then that silly Confederate Home meeting, then Rhett appearing from nowhere with the silver tea service Her hand stretched over to the empty space beside herShe wanted him there, but perhaps it was better to wait a few days, until she was really accepted in Charleston That miserable Ross! She wouldn't think about him or those horrible things he'd said and doneMiss Eleanor had denied him the house, and she wouldn't have to see him, she hoped not ever againShe'd think about something elseShe'd think about Miss Eleanor, who loved her and who was going to help her get Rhett back, even if she didn't know that's what she was doingThe Market, Miss Eleanor had said, was the place to meet everybody and hear all the newsSo to the Market she would gotomorrowScarlett would have been happier if it wasn't necessary to go so early, at six o'clockI have to say this for Charleston, she thought sleepily, it's plenty busy, and I like thatShe was only halfway through a yawn when she fell asleep | | Sunday, December 26th, 2010 | | 11:04 am |
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Melanie sighed in contentmentShe was @@@@@ Melanie sighed in contentmentShe was vibrantly aware of the warmth of the boy in my lap and the touch of the man who still stroked his hand against my armShe wasn't even upset by Ian's arm around my shoulders You're feeling the No Pain, too,I teased her I don't think it's the No PainThis is more than I've ever had This is so much of what I lost What was it that made this human love so much more desirable to me than the love of my own kind? Was it because it was exclusive and capricious? The souls offered love and acceptance to allDid I crave a greater challenge? This love was tricky; it had no hard-and-fast rules–it might be given for free, as with Jamie, or earned through time and hard work, as with Ian, or completely and heartbreakingly unattainable, as with Jared Or was it simply better somehow? Because these humans could hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire? I didn't know why I had yearned after it so desperatelyAll I knew was that, now that I had it, it was worth every ounce of risk and agony it had costIt was better than I'd imagined By the time the food was prepared and consumed, the late–or rather early–hour had gotten to us allPeople stumbled out of the crowded room toward their bedsAs they left, there was more space Those remaining slouched down where we were as room became availableGradually, we melted in place until we were horizontalMy head ended up pillowed on Jared's stomach; his hand stroked my hair now and thenJamie's face was against my chest, and his arms were around my neckOne of my arms wrapped around his shouldersIan's head was cushioned on my stomach, and he held my other hand to his faceI could feel Doc's long leg stretched beside mine, his shoe by my hipDoc was asleep–I could hear him snoringI may have even been touching Kyle somewhere Jeb was sprawled on the b | | Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 | | 10:55 am |
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@@@@@There was hunger, the @@@@@There was hunger, the never-ending desperate hunger of the bad days at TaraAnd Yankee soldiers, coming closer and closer to Atlanta, looming in the shadows of the piazza outside her window, handling her and whispering that her legs would have to come off, sprawling in a pool of blood on the floor at Tara, the blood spurting, spreading, becoming a torrent of red that rose into a mountainous wave higher and still higher over a screaming small ScarlettAnd there was cold, with ice covering trees and shrivelling flowers and forming a shell around her so that she couldn't move and couldn't be heard although she was calling "Rhett, Rhett, Rhett come back" inside the icicles that were falling from her lipsHer mother passed through her dream, and Scarlett smelled lemon verbena, but Ellen never spokeGerald O'Hara jumped a fence, then another, then fence after fence into infinity, sitting backwards on a shining white stallion that was singing with Gerald in a human voice about Scarlett in a Low Back'd CarThe voices changed, became women's voices, became hushedShe couldn't hear what they were sayingScarlett licked her dry lips and opened her eyesOh, she looks so worried, poor thing"Don't be frightened," Scarlett said hoarsely "She been having a nightmare," said Rebekah"The bad dreams are all over now, ScarlettThe doctor said you're going to be well in no time at all Anne Hampton's dark eyes were shining with earnestness Eleanor Butler's face appeared over her shoulder"We've come to take you home, my dear," she said"This is ridiculous," Scarlett complained"I can perfectly well walk Rebekah clamped a hand on her shoulder and continued to push the wheelchair slowly along the crushed oyster-shell road"I feel like a fool," grumbled Scarlett, but she slumped back in the chairHer head was throbbing with sharp dagger-like painsThe rainstorm had brought back weather suitable for FebruaryThe air was crisp, with a bite in the wind that was still blowingAt least Miss Eleanor brought my fur cape, she thoughtI must have had a mighty close call if I'm allowed to wear the furs she thought were so sh | | Sunday, December 19th, 2010 | | 11:02 am |
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roaring out of the @@@@@The static that came roaring out of the Mercedes's four speakers this time seemed as loud as a jet fighter's engine Even with my palm over one ear, it ripped through my headI thought I heard Wireman yell, but I wasn't sure Jack pushed the power button again and the hellish blizzard of noise cut out"I think we should skip the tunes," he said "Wireman? All right?" My voice seemed to be coming from far away, through a steady low ringing noise ix Jack might have made it a little way beyond the point where Ilse got sick; maybe notIt was hard to tell once the growth got highThe road narrowed to a stripe, its surface humped and buckled by the roots running beneath itThe foliage had interlaced above us, blotting out most of the skyIt was like being in a living tunnel 936 The windows were rolled up, but even so, the car was filling with a green and fecund jungle smell Jack tested the old Mercedes's springs on a particularly egregious pothole, thumped up over a ridge in the pavement on the far side, then slammed to a stop and put the transmission in PARK "I'm sorry," he saidHis mouth was quivering and his eyes were too big"I'm-" I knew perfectly well what he was Jack fumbled open the door, leaned out, and vomitedI'd thought the smell of the jungle (that's what it was once you were a mile past El Palacio) was strong in the car, but what came rolling in with the door open was ten times headier, thick and green and viciously aliveYet I did not hear a single bird calling in that mass of junk foliageThe only sound was Jack losing his breakfastAt last he collapsed back against the seatHe thought I looked like a snowbird again? That was sort of funny, because on that early afternoon in mid-April, Jack Cantori was as pale as March in MinnesotaInstead of twenty-one, he looked a sickly forty-fiveIt must have been 937 the tuna salad, Ilse had said, but it hadn't been the tunaSomething from the sea, all right, but not the tun | | Friday, December 17th, 2010 | | 10:58 am |
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deserve @@@@@Could she believe Miss Crawford to deserve him, it would be—oh, how different would it be—how far more tolerable! But he was deceived in her: he gave her merits which she had not; her faults were what they had ever been, but he saw them no longerTill she had shed many tears over this deception, Fanny could not subdue her agitation; and the dejection which followed could only be relieved by the influence of fervent prayers for his happiness It was her intention, as she felt it to be her duty, to try to overcome all that was excessive, all that bordered on selfishness, in her affection for EdmundTo call or to fancy it a loss, a disappointment, would be a presumption for which she had not words strong enough to satisfy her own humilityTo think of him as Miss Crawford might be justified in thinking, would in her be insanityTo her he could be nothing under any circumstances; nothing dearer than a friendWhy did such an idea occur to her even enough to be reprobated and forbidden? It ought not to have touched on the confines of her imaginationShe would endeavour to be rational, and to deserve the right of judging of Miss Crawford’s character, and the privilege of true solicitude for him by a sound intellect and an honest heart She had all the heroism of principle, and was determined to do her duty; but having also many of the feelings of youth and nature, let her not be much wondered at, if, after making all these good resolutions on the side of self-government, she seized the scrap of paper on which Edmund had begun writing to her, as a treasure beyond all her hopes, and reading with the tenderest emotion these words, “My very dear Fanny, you must do me the favour to accept” locked it up with the chain, as the dearest part of the giftIt was the only thing approaching to a letter which she had ever received from him; she might never receive another; it was impossible that she ever should receive another so perfectly gratifying in the occasion and the styleTwo lines more prized had never fallen from the pen 230 Mansfield Park of the most distinguished author—never more completely blessed the researches of the fondest biographerThe enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’sTo her, the handwriting itself, independent of anything it may convey, is a blessednessNever were such characters cut by any other human being as Edmund’s commonest handwriting gave! This specimen, written in haste as it was, had not a fault; and there was a felicity in the flow of the first four words, in the arrangement of “My very dear Fanny,” which she could have looked at for ever Having regulated her thoughts and comforted her feelings by this happy mixture of reason and weakness, she was able in due time to go down and resume her usual employments near her aunt Bertram, and pay her the usual observances without any apparent want of spirits Thursday, predestined to hope and enjoyment, came; and opened with more kindness to Fanny than such self-willed, unmanageable days often volunteer, for soon after breakfast a very friendly note was brought from MrCrawford to William, stating that as he found himself obliged to go to London on the morrow for a few days, he could not help trying to procure a companion; and therefore hoped that if William could make up his mind to leave Mansfield half a day earlier than had been proposed, he would accept a place in his carriageCrawford meant to be in town by his uncle’s accustomary late dinner-hour, and William was invited to dine with him at the Admiral’sThe proposal was a very pleasant one to William himself, who enjoyed the idea of travelling post with four horses, and such a good-humoured, agreeable friend; and, in likening it to going up with despatches, was saying at once everything in favour of its happiness and dignity which his imagination could suggest; and Fanny, from a different motive, was exceedingly pleased; for the original plan was that William should go up by the mail from Northampton the following night, which would not have allowed him an hour’s rest before he must have got into a Portsmouth coach; and though this offer of MrCrawford’s would rob her of many hours of his company, she was too happy in having William spared from the fatigue of such a journey, to think of anything elseSir Thomas approved of it for another reasonHis 231 Jane Austen nephew’s introduction to Admiral Crawford might be of service The Admiral, he believed, had interestUpon the whole, it was a very joyous noteFanny’s spirits lived on it half the morning, deriving some accession of pleasure from its writer being himself to go awa |
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