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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    12:07 pm
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    hedges and came back to the weapons room screaming like the maniac he isHe shouted to his
    bound hostages that you were his and you were deadAnd there was only one last thing he had to
    accomplish
    “Novgorod,” interrupted Conklin, whispering, his head rigid, staring at the ceiling
    “Precisely,” said Krupkin, his eyes focused on Alex’s profile beside him“He’s going back to
    the place of his birth where Ilich Ramirez Sanchez became Carlos the Jackal because he was
    disinherited, marked for execution as a madmanHe held his gun against everyone’s throat, quietly
    demanding to know the best roads to Novgorod, threatening to kill whoever gave him the wrong
    answerNone did, of course, and all who knew told him it was five to six hundred kilometers away,
    a full day’s drive
    “Drive?” interjected Bourne
    “He knows he cannot use any other means of transportationThe railroads, the airports—even
    the small airfields—all will be watched, he understands that
    “What will he do in Novgorod?” asked Jason quickly
    “Dear God in heaven, which, of course, there is neither, who knows? He intends to leave his
    mark, a highly destructive memorial to himself, no doubt, in answer to those he believes betrayed
    him thirty-odd years ago, as well as the poor souls who fell under his gun this morning in the
    VavilovaHe took the papers from our agent trained at Novgorod; he thinks they’ll get him
    insideThey won’t—we’ll stop him
    “Don’t even try,” said Bourne“He may or may not use them, depending upon what he sees,
    what he sensesHe doesn’t need papers to get in there any more than I do, but if he senses
    something wrong, and he will, he’ll kill a number of good men and still get inside
    “What are you driving at?” asked Krupkin warily, eyeing Bourne, the American with alternate
    identities and apparently conflicting life-styles
    “Get me inside ahead of him with a detailed map of the whole complex and some kind of
    document that gives me free access to go wherever I want to go
    “You’ve lost your senses!” cried Dimitri“A nondefecting American, an assassin hunted by
    every NATO country in Europe, inside Novgorod?”
    “Nyet, nyet, nyet!” roared the Komitet commissar“I understand good, okay? You are lunatic,
    okay?”
    “Do you want the Jackal?”
    “Naturally, but there are limits to the cost
    “I haven’t the slightest interest in Novgorod or in any of the compounds—you should know that
    by
    5:55 am
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    - when you were twenty-five
    "Are you kiddin, amigo?"
    "No
    "I don't think I even remember what I looked like
    when I was twenty-five
    "How's Elizabeth? Any change in her?"
    He sighed"She seemed a little better yesterday
    morning, so I set her up in the back parlor -
    there's a smaller table there, what I call the
    China Suburbs - and she threw a set of Wallendorf
    ballerinas on the floor
    Irreplaceable, of course
    "Last fall I never thought it could get this bad,
    and God punishes us for what we can't imagine
    My second call came fifteen minutes later, and I
    threw my brush down on my work-table in
    exasperationIt was hard to
    stay exasperated after being exposed to his
    excitement, which bordered on exuberanceHe'd
    seen the slides, which he claimed were going to
    "knock everyone on their asses
    "That's wonderful," I said"At my lecture I
    intend to tell them, 'Get up off your asses'
    He laughed as though this were the funniest thing
    he'd ever heard, then said, "Mainly I called to
    ask if there are any pictures you want marked NFS
    - not for sale
    Outside there was a rumble that sounded like a big,
    heavily loaded truck crossing a plank bridgeI
    looked toward the Gulf - where there were no plank
    bridges - and realized I'd heard thunder far off
    to the west
    "Edgar? Are you still there?"
    513
    "Still here," I said"Assuming anyone wants to
    buy, you can sell everything but the Girl and Ship
    series
    "That sounded like a disappointed ah
    "I was hoping to buy one of those for the gallery
    I had my eye on Number 2 And considering the
    terms of the contract, he would be buying it at a
    fifty per cent discountNot bad, lad, my father
    might have said
    "That series isn't done yetMaybe when the rest
    of them are painted
    "How many more will there be?"
    I'll keep painting them until I can read the
    fucking ghost-ship's name on the transom
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
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    It says Come to me, child
    And, drowning, Tessie Eastlake thinks It's a WOMAN!
    She sinksAnd does she feel still-warm hands,
    those of her freshly dead sister, gripping her
    calves and pulling her down?
    Yes, of course
    Believing is also feeling
    Any artist will tell you so
    13 - The Show
    i
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    one clearlyIt happened a little over four years
    ago, on the evening of April fifteenth, at the
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    hadn't arrivedI had seen Pam and Illy earlier in
    the day, and Wireman had assured me that Melinda's
    flight was on time, but so far that evening there
    hadn't been a sign of them
    In the alcove to my left, where both the bar and
    eight of the Sunset With pictures had drawn a
    crowd, a trio from the local music conservatory
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    Funny Valentine Mary Ire (holding a glass of
    champagne but sober so far) was expatiating on
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    686
    To the right was a bigger room, featuring a buffet
    On one wall in there was Roses Grow from Shells
    and a painting called I See the Moon; on another,
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    people taking photographs of these with their
    camera-phones, although a sign on a tripod just
    inside the door gucci boston bag announced that all photography was
    verboten
    I mentioned this to Jimmy Yoshida in passing, and
    he nodded, seeming not angry or even irritated,
    but rather bemused"There are a great many people
    here I either don't associate with the art scene
    or don't recognize at all," he said"The size of
    this crowd is outside of my experience
    "Is that a bad thing?"
    "God, no! But after years of fighting to keep our
    corporate heads above water, it feels strange to
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    CHAPTER 59
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    Roth expelled his breath with annoyance"That's a species of question I don't like His heart was thumping powerfully from the tension he felt at arguing into their blank unsympathetic facesA strong, apparently irrational, anxiety moistened the palms of his; hands"Is that the only answer you can think of?" he snappedHis voice tapered shrilly
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    12:15 pm
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    384
    “You may be whatever you say you are, sir,” she began, “but you do not listen to Radio
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    446
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    They walked along the moonlit beach, alternately touching and not touching, the embarrassment of
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    “Both, I guessIt didn’t matter, I didn’t use it
    “But you wanted to, didn’t you?”
    “Again, I’m not sureIf you and the children were threatened, of course I would, but I don’t
    think I’d fire indiscriminately
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    “Please don’t kill me, David,” said Morris Panov, the beam of his flashlight illuminating the
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    “I don’t know, MoI don’t know anything anymore !” David’s head arched back in pain
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    Webb fell to his knees, the tears welling in his eyes, trembling and trying not to make a sound
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    "Edgar?" Wireman asked"Are you all right,
    muchacho?"
    "Yes," I said, and smiledThe world came swimming
    back, in all its light and colorI made myself
    take the doll from Juanita, who was looking at it
    with puzzlementIt was a hard thing to do, but I
    managed
    He shrugged and spread his hands"Thank your
    girls, Ilse in particularWho's ready for another glass of
    champagne?"
    They all wereI replaced my new doll in her box,
    promising myself two thingsOne was that neither
    of my daughters would ever know how badly seeing
    the damned thing had frightened meThe other
    promise was that I knew two sisters - two living
    sisters - who were never, ever, going to set foot
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    help it
    That was one promise that I kept
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    "All right, Edgar, I think we're almost finished
    Maybe she saw something on my face, because Mary
    laughed"Has it been that awful?"
    "No," I said, and it hadn't been, really, although
    her questions about my technique had made me feel
    uncomfortableWhat it came down to was I looked
    at things, then slopped on the paintThat was my
    techniqueAnd influences? What could I say? The
    lightIt always came down to the light, both in
    the pictures I liked to look at and the ones I
    liked to paintWhat it did to the surface of
    things, and what it seemed to suggest about what
    was inside, hunting a way outBut that didn't
    sound scholarly; to my ears it sounded goofy
    "Okay," she said, "last subject: how many more
    paintings are there?"
    We were sitting in Mary Ire's penthouse apartment
    on Davis Islands, a tony Tampa enclave which
    looked to me like the art deco capital of the
    worldThe living room was a vast, nearly empty
    space with a couch at one end and two slingback
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