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Wednesday, 27. October 2010

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Tuesday, 26. October 2010

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Sunday, 24. October 2010

@@@@@ Why? (She looks at him, her eyes passive
By hermannscmb, 11:22

@@@@@ Why? (She looks at him, her eyes passive and calmThis time she puts her hand on his arm His throat is tense and his chest aches with warmth and hungerHe shivers as he hears the girl giggling againThis is swell out here at City Point, he says(The thick lusting dreams at night for he knows not what I'll tell ya, Mary, if I was goin' steady -- his voice is strong with his sense of renunciation -- I wouldn' be hangin' around with them so much, 'cause you know I'd be wantin' to see more of you You would? He listens to the lapping of the surfI love ya, Mary, he says suddenly, holding himself stiff and cold, troubled delicately by a passing uncertainty I think I do too, RoyAfter a while he kisses her gently, then hungrily, but a corner of his mind has retreated and become coldOh, I love ya, kid, he says huskily, trying to cauterize the doubtCity Point is so beautiful, she says In the night they cannot see the garbage that litters the beach, the seaweed and driftwood, the condoms that wallow sluggishly on the foam's edge, discarded on the shore like the minuscule loathsome animals of the sea Yeah, it's something, he says slowly Hey, theah, Roy, how's the old married man, how's it feel gettin' it steady, what do ya say? Aw, it's okay(He shivers in the September dawn that lifts bleakly over the gray stone pavement and the slatternly wooden houses Jesus, it's cold out, I wish the goddam polls'd open I'm glad you're with me today, Roy, you know we think you're all right, but we ain't seen much of ya Aaah, well, I quit the CU, he mumbles, and I thought maybe the boys were you know not so glad to see me Well, ya shoulda told 'em, but between you an' me, the club is gonna lay off 'em for a while, started gettin' pressure from on top, clear out of the state I heardIt always pays to stick with the club, you don't go wrong that way, I bet if you hadn't been with the CU you woulda been the election captain here today, I hope there's no hahd feelin's, Roy(He feels a dull resentmentBack wheah I staarted I bet some of those rich kikes in the party are the ones that creamed the

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Saturday, 23. October 2010

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Friday, 22. October 2010

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Thursday, 21. October 2010

@@@@@?I'm sorry, I don'tIt wasn't something I was
By hermannscmb, 04:20

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Wednesday, 20. October 2010

@@@@@Doc shot her a pained lookTrudy jumped to
By hermannscmb, 13:55

@@@@@Doc shot her a pained lookTrudy jumped to her feet?We can't house a murderer?and just wait around for him to be successful!? ?Murderis a subjective term,? Maggie hissed?I only consider it murder when something human is killed I felt Ian's arm wrap around my shoulderI didn't realize that I was trembling until his motionless body was against mine?Humanis a subjective term as well, Magnolia,? Jared said, glowering at her?I thought the definition embracedsome compassion, some little bit of mercy ?Let's vote,? Sharon said before her mother could answer him?Raise your hand if you think Kyle should be allowed to stay here, with no penalty for the? misunderstanding She shot a glance not at me, but at Ian beside me when she used the word I'd usedI watched Jared's face as his features settled into a scowlI struggled to raise my hand, but Ian tightened his hold around my arms and made an irritated noise through his noseI held my palm as high as I could get itIn the end, though, my vote wasn't necessaryJeb counted out loud?Ten? fifteen? twenty? twenty-threeOkay, that's a clear majority I didn't look around to see who had voted howIt was enough that in my little corner all arms were crossed tightly over chests and all eyes stared at Jeb with expectant expressionsJamie walked away from Jeb to come squeeze in between Trudy and meHe put his arm around me, under Ian's?Maybe your souls were right about us,? he said, loud enough for most to hear his high, hard voice?The majority are no better than ?? ?Hush!? I hissed at himJeb looked down at Kyle, then at me, and then at Jar

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@@@@@Doc shot her a pained lookTrudy jumped to
By hermannscmb, 13:55

@@@@@Doc shot her a pained lookTrudy jumped to her feet?We can't house a murderer?and just wait around for him to be successful!? ?Murderis a subjective term,? Maggie hissed?I only consider it murder when something human is killed I felt Ian's arm wrap around my shoulderI didn't realize that I was trembling until his motionless body was against mine?Humanis a subjective term as well, Magnolia,? Jared said, glowering at her?I thought the definition embracedsome compassion, some little bit of mercy ?Let's vote,? Sharon said before her mother could answer him?Raise your hand if you think Kyle should be allowed to stay here, with no penalty for the? misunderstanding She shot a glance not at me, but at Ian beside me when she used the word I'd usedI watched Jared's face as his features settled into a scowlI struggled to raise my hand, but Ian tightened his hold around my arms and made an irritated noise through his noseI held my palm as high as I could get itIn the end, though, my vote wasn't necessaryJeb counted out loud?Ten? fifteen? twenty? twenty-threeOkay, that's a clear majority I didn't look around to see who had voted howIt was enough that in my little corner all arms were crossed tightly over chests and all eyes stared at Jeb with expectant expressionsJamie walked away from Jeb to come squeeze in between Trudy and meHe put his arm around me, under Ian's?Maybe your souls were right about us,? he said, loud enough for most to hear his high, hard voice?The majority are no better than ?? ?Hush!? I hissed at himJeb looked down at Kyle, then at me, and then at Jar

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Tuesday, 19. October 2010

There is sometimes a performer in a circus,...
By hermannscmb, 10:16

There is sometimes a performer in a circus, advertised as the fire eater, who makes flames seemingly shoot out of his mouth, and there on the street of some city in South Vietnam, this shaven-headed monk somehow made it look as though flames, instead of assaulting him from without, were shooting forward into the air from within him, not just from his mouth, however, but in an instantaneous eruption from his scalp and his face and his chest and his lap and his legs and his feetBecause he remained perfectly upright, indicating in no way that he could feel himself to be on fire, because he did not so much as move a muscle, let alone cry out, it at first looked very much like a circus stunt, as though what was being consumed were not the monk but the air, the monk setting the air on fire while no harm at all befell himHis posture remained exemplary, the posture of someone altogether elsewhere leading another life entirely, a servant of selfless contemplation, meditative, serene, a mere link in the chain of being untouched by what happened to be happening to him within view of the entire worldNo screaming, no writhing, just his calmness at the heart of the flames--no pain registering on anyone on camera, only on Merry and the Swede and Dawn, horrified together in their living roomOut of nowhere and into their home, the nimbus of flames, the upright monk, and the sudden liquefaction before he keels over

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Monday, 18. October 2010

You certainly never let her know who you...
By hermannscmb, 10:21

You certainly never let her know who you areThat's what she's been blasting away at--that facadeAll your fucking normsTake a good look at what she did to your norms "I don't know what you want from meYou've always been too smart for meIs this your response? Is this it?" "You win the trophyYou always make the right moveYou're loved by everybodyYou marry Miss New Jersey, for God's sakeThere's thinking for youWhy did you marry her? For the appearanceWhy do you do everything? For the appearance!" "I loved her! I opposed my own father I loved her so much!" Jerry is laughing"Is that what you believe? You really think you stood up to him? You married her because you couldn't get out of itDad raked her over the coals in his office and you sat there and didn't say shitWell, isn't that true?" "My daughter is in that room, JerryWhat is this all about?" But Jerry does not hear himHe hears only himselfWhy is this Jerry's grand occasion to tell his brother coco chanel designer the truth? Why does someone, in the midst of your worst suffering, decide the time has come to drive home, disguised in the form of character analysis, all the contempt they have been harboring for you for all these years? What in your suffering makes their superiority so fulsome, so capacious, makes the expression of it so enjoyable? Why this occasion for launching his protest at living in the shadow of me? Why, if he had to tell me all this, couldn't he have told it to me when I was feeling my oats? Why does he even believe he's in my shadow? Miami's biggest cardiac surgeon! The heart victim's savior, DrLevov! "Dad? He fucking let you slide through--don't you know that? If Dad had said, 'Look, you'll never get my approval for this, never, I am not having grandchildren half this and half that,' then you would have had to make a choiceBut you never had to make a choiceBecause he let you slide throughEverybody has always let you slide throughAnd that is cartier tank watch why, to this day, nobody knows who you areYou are unrevealed--that is the story, Seymour, unrevealedThat is why your own daughter decided to blow you awayYou are never straight about anything and she hated you for itYou keep yourself a secretYou don't choose ever "Why are you saying this? What do you want me to choose? What are we talking about?" "You think you know what a man is? You have no idea what a man isYou think you know what a daughter is? You have no idea what a daughter isYou think you know what this country is? You have no idea what this country isYou have a false image of everythingAll you know is what a fucking glove isThis country is frighteningOf course she was rapedWhat kind of company do you think she was keeping? Of course out there she was going to get rapedThis isn't Old Rimrock, old buddy--she's out there, old buddy, in the USAShe enters that world, that loopy world out there, with what's going on out there--what do you expect? A borse fendi kid from Rimrock, New Jersey, of course she doesn't know how to behave out there, of course the shit hits the fanWhat could she know? She's like a wild child out there in the worldShe can't get enough of it--she's still acting upA room off McCarter HighwayAnd why not? Who wouldn't? You prepare her for life milking the cows? For what kind of life? Unnatural, all artificial, all of itThose assumptions you live withYou're still in your old man's dreamworld, Seymour, still up there with Lou Levov in glove heavenA household tyrannized by gloves, bludgeoned by gloves, the only thing in life--ladies' gloves! Does he still tell the great one about the woman who sells the gloves washing her hands in a sink between each color? Oh where oh where is that outmoded America, that decorous America where a woman had twenty-five pairs of gloves? Your kid blows your norms to kingdom come, Seymour, and you still think you know what life is!" Life is just a short period of louis vuitton jewelry time in which we are alive "You wanted Miss America? Well, you've got her, with a vengeance--she's your daughter! You wanted to be a real American jock, a real American marine, a real American hotshot with a beautiful Gentile babe on your arm? You longed to belong like everybody else to the United States of America? Well, you do now, big boy, thanks to your daughterThe reality of this place is right up in your kisser nowWith the help of your daughter you're as deep in the shit as a man can get, the real American crazy shitAmerica amok! America amuck! Goddamn it, Seymour, goddamn you, if you were a father who loved his daughter," thunders Jerry into the phone--and the hell with the convalescent patients waiting in the corridor for him to check out their new valves and new arteries, to tell how grateful they are to him for their new lease on life, Jerry shouts away, shouts all he wants if it's shouting he wants to do, and the hell with the rules of the sacs hermes hospita

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Sunday, 17. October 2010

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By hermannscmb, 10:17

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Saturday, 16. October 2010

"Brownstone and brick," said his father...
By hermannscmb, 10:24

"Brownstone and brick," said his father admiringly" There was a guy whose worries were over That had all taken place before they'd moved to Keer Avenue, when they were living across from the synagogue in a three-family house at the poor end of Wainwright StreetHis father didn't have even a loft then but got his skins from a fellow who was also Down Neck and who trafficked out of his garage in whatever the workers could carry from the tanneries hidden within their big rubber boots or wrapped around them beneath their overallsThe hide man was himself a tannery worker, a big, gruff Pole with tattoos up and down his massive arms, and the Swede had vague memories of his father's standing at the garage's one window holding the finished hides up to the light and searching them for defects, then stretching them over his knee before making his selection"Feel this," he'd say to the Swede once they were safely back in the car, and the child would crease a delicate kidskin as he'd seen his father do, finger the fineness appreciatively, the velvet texture of the skin's close, tight grain" That's leather," his father told him"What makes kidskin so delicate, knock off chanel earrings Seymour?" "I don't know "Well, what is a kid?" "A baby goatAnd what does he eat?" "Milk?" "RightAnd because all the animal has eaten is milk, that's what makes the grain smooth and beautifulLook at the pores of this skin with a magni-220 fying glass and they're so fine you can't even see 'emBut the kid starts eating grass, that skin's a different storyThe goat eats grass and the skin is like sandpaperThe finest glove leather for a formal glove is what, Seymour?" "KidBut it's not only the kid, son, it's the tanningYou've got to know your tanneryIt's like a good cook and a bad cookYou get a good piece of meat and a bad cook can spoil it for youHow come someone makes a wonderful cake and the other doesn't? One is moist and nice and the other is drySame thing in leatherI worked in the tanneryIt's the chemicals, it's the time, it's the temperatureThat's where the difference comes inThat, and not buying second-rate skins to begin withCost as much to tan a bad skin as a good skinCost more to tan a bad one--you work harder at itBeautiful, beautiful," he said, "wonderful stuff," once again lovingly kneading the kidskin between his fingertips"You know how you get chanel black handbags it like this, Seymour?" "How, Daddy?" "You work at it There were eight, ten, twelve immigrant families scattered throughout Down Neck to whom Lou Levov distributed the skins along with his own patterns, people from Naples who had been glovers in the old country and the best of whom wound up working at Newark Maid's first home when he could come up with the rent for the small loft on West Market Street on the top floor of the chair factoryThe old Italian grandfather or the father did the cutting on the kitchen table, with the French rule, the shears, and the spud knife he'd brought from ItalyThe grandmother or the mother did the sewing, and the daughters did the laying off--ironing the glove--in the old-fashioned way, with irons heated up in a box set atop the kitchen's potbellied stoveThe women worked on antique Singers, nineteenth-century machines that Lou Levov, who'd learned to reassemble them, had bought for a song and then repaired himself

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Friday, 15. October 2010

"You know painters, then? You live in their...
By hermannscmb, 10:22

"You know painters, then? You live in their milieu?" she asked, her eyes full of interestI don't know that the arts have a milieu here, any of them

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Thursday, 14. October 2010

He could have played ball anywhere he wanted, but...
By hermannscmb, 10:27

He could have played ball anywhere he wanted, but he went to Upsala because my father wanted him near homeGiants offered him a Double A contract, might have played one day with Willie Mays--instead he went down to Central Avenue to work for Newark MaidMy father started him off at a tanneryPuts him for six months working in a tannery on Frelinghuysen AvenueUp six mornings a week at five aYou know what a tannery is? A tannery is a shitholeRemember those days in the summer? A strong wind from the east and the tanning stench wafts over Weequahic Park and covers the whole neighborhoodWell, he gets out of the tannery, Seymour does, strong as an ox, and my father sits him down at a sewing machine for another six months and Seymour doesn't let out a peepJust masters the fucking machineGive him the pieces of a glove and he can close it up better than the sewers and in half the timeHe could have married any beauty he wantedInstead he marries the bee-yoo-ti-full Miss DwyerYou should have seen themThe two of them all chanel jumbo bag smiles on their outward trip into the USAShe's post-Catholic, he's post-Jewish, together they're going to go out there to Old Rimrock to raise little post-toastiesInstead they get that fucking kid "What was wrong with Miss Dwyer?" "No house they lived in was rightNo amount of money in the bank was enoughHe set her up in the cattle businessHe set her up in the nursery tree businessHe took her to Switzerland for the world's best face-liftNot even into her fifties, still in her forties, but that's what the woman wants, so they schlep to Geneva for a face-lift from the guy who did Princess GraceHe would have been better off spending his life in Double A ballHe would have been better off knocking up some waitress down there in Phoenix and playing first base for the Mud-hensThat fucking kid! She stuttered, you knowSo to pay everybody back for her stuttering, she set off the bombHe took her to speech therapistsHe took her to clinics, to psychiatristsThere wasn't enough he could do for herAnd the reward? Boom! prada fairy Why does this girl hate her father? This great father, this truly great fatherGood-looking, kind, providing, thinks about nothing really but them, his family-- why does she take off after him? That our own ridiculous father should have produced such a brilliant father--and that he should then produce her? Somebody tell me what caused itThe genetic need to separate? For that she has to run from Seymour Levov to Che Guevara? No, noWhat is the poison that caused it, that caused this poor guy to be placed outside his life for the rest of his life? He kept peering in from outside at his own lifeThe struggle of his life was to bury this thingBut could he? How? How could a big, sweet, agreeable putz like my brother be expected to deal with this bomb? One day life started laughing at him and it never let up That was as far as we got, as much of an earful as I was to hear from Jerry--anything more I wanted to know, I'd have to make up--because just then a small, gray-haired woman in a brown pantsuit came up to tiffany toggle necklace introduce herself, and Jerry, not a man equipped by nature to stand around more than five seconds while someone else was getting a third party's attention, shot me a mock salute and disappeared, and when I went looking for him later, I heard that he'd had to leave, to catch a Newark plane back to Miami After I'd already written about his brother--which is what I would do in the months to come: think about the Swede for six, eight, sometimes ten hours at a stretch, exchange my solitude for his, inhabit this person least like myself, disappear into him, day and night try to take the measure of a person of apparent blankness and innocence and simplicity, chart his collapse, make of him, as time wore on, the most important figure of my life--just before I set about to alter names and disguise the most glaring marks of identification, I had the amateur's impulse to send Jerry a copy of the manuscript to ask what he thoughtIt was an impulse I quashed: I hadn't been writing and publishing for nearly forty years not to chanel jewellery know by now to quash it"That's not my brother," he'd tell me, "not in any wayYou've misrepresented himMy brother couldn't think like that, didn't talk like that," etc Yes, by this time Jerry might well have recovered the objectivity that had deserted him directly after the funeral, and with it the old resentment that helped make him the doctor at the hospital every-74 I body was afraid to talk to because he was never wrongAlso, unlike most people whose dear one winds up as a model for the life-drawing class, Jerry Levov would probably be amused rather than outraged by my failure to grasp the Swede's tragedy the way he didA strong possibility: Jerry's flipping derisively through my pages and giving me, item by item, the bad news"The wife was nothing like this, the kid was nothing like this--got even my father wrongI won't talk about what you do with meBut missing my father, man, that's missing the side of a barnLou Levov was a brute, manThis guy is a pushoverNo, we had something over us light-years away from men's omega watch

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Wednesday, 13. October 2010

They were raised by parents like himAnd so many...
By hermannscmb, 10:19

They were raised by parents like himAnd so many were girls, girls whose political identity was total, who were no less aggressive and militant, no less drawn to "armed action" than the boysThere is something terrifyingly pure about their violence and the thirst for self-transformationThey renounce their roots to take as their models the revolutionaries whose conviction is enacted most ruthlesslyThey manufacture like unstoppable machines the abhorrence that propels their steely idealismTheir rage is combustibleThey are willing to do anything they can imagine to make history changeThe draft isn't even hanging over their heads

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What could it be? Or maybe he was just a happy...
By hermannscmb, 01:26

What could it be? Or maybe he was just a happy manHappy people exist tooWhy shouldn't they? All the scattershot speculation about the Swede's motives was only my professional impatience, my trying to imbue Swede Levov with something like the tendentious meaning Tolstoy assigned to Ivan Ilych, so belittled by the author in the uncharitable story in which he sets out to heartlessly expose, in clinical terms, what it is to be ordinaryIvan Ilych is the well-placed high-court official who leads "a decorous life approved of by society" and who on his deathbed, in the depths of his unceasing agony and terror, thinks, "'Maybe I did not live as I ought to have done'" Ivan Ilych's life, writes Tolstoy, summarizing, right at the outset, his judgment of the presiding judge with the delightful StPetersburg house and a handsome salary of three thousand rubles a year and friends all of good social position, had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terribleMaybe in Russia in 1886But in Old Rimrock, New Jersey, in 1995, when the Ivan Ilyches come trooping back to lunch at the clubhouse after their morning round of golf and start to crow, "It doesn't get any better than this," they may be a lot closer to the truth than Leo Tolstoy ever was Swede Levov's life, for all I knew, had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore just great, right in the American grain "Is Jerry gay?" I suddenly asked "My brother?" The Swede laughed Maybe I was and had asked the gucci horsebit hobo question out of mischief, to alleviate the boredomYet I did happen to be remembering that line the Swede had written me about how much his father "suffered because of the shocks that befell his loved ones," which led me to wondering again what he'd been alluding to, which spontaneously reminded me of the humiliation Jerry had brought upon himself in our junior year of high school when he attempted to win the heart of a strikingly unexceptional girl in our class who you wouldn't have thought required a production to get her to kiss you As a Valentine present, Jerry made a coat for her out of hamster skins, a hundred and seventy-five hamster skins that he cured in the sun and then sewed together with a curved sewing needle pilfered from his father's factory, where the idea dawned on himThe high school biology department had been given a gift of some three hundred hamsters for the purpose of dissection, and Jerry diligently finagled to collect the skins from the biology students

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Sunday, 03. October 2010

One achieves this perfection only through the...
By hermannscmb, 10:21

One achieves this perfection only through the rigors of asceticism and self-denial and through the doctrine of ahitnsa or nonviolence The five "vows" she'd taken were typewritten on index cards and taped to the wall above a narrow pallet of dirty foam rubber on the unswept floorThat was where she slept, and given that there was nothing but the pallet in one corner of the room and a rag pile--her clothing--in the other, that must be where she sat to eat whatever it was she survived onVery, very little, from the look of her

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Friday, 01. October 2010

I was ten, never before touched by greatness, and...
By hermannscmb, 10:25

I was ten, never before touched by greatness, and would have been as beneath the Swede's attention as anyone else along the sidelines had it not been for Jerry LevovJerry had recently taken me on board as a friend

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Thursday, 30. September 2010

The statement was insignificant enough, and...
By hermannscmb, 10:24

The statement was insignificant enough, and Archer was about to frame an assent when his words were checked by something mysterious yet illuminating in his visitor's insistent gaze "It is extraordinary, very extraordinary," MRiviere continued, "that we should have met in the circumstances in which I find myself "What circumstances?" Archer asked, wondering a little crudely if he needed moneyRiviere continued to study him with tentative eyes"I have come, not to look for employment, as I spoke of doing when we last met, but on a special mission?" "Ah?!" Archer exclaimedIn a flash the two meetings had connected themselves in his mindHe paused to take in the situation thus suddenly lighted up for him, and MRiviere also remained silent, as if aware that what he had said was enough "A special mission," Archer at length repeated The young Frenchman, opening chloe paddington bags his palms, raised them slightly, and the two men continued to look at each other across the office-desk till Archer roused himself to say: "Do sit down"

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Wednesday, 29. September 2010

"We live in a society where violence is becoming...
By hermannscmb, 10:24

"We live in a society where violence is becoming all too prevalentwe do not know why and we may never understandthe anger that all of us feelour hearts go out to the victim and his family, to the Hamlins, and to an entire community that is trying to understand and to cope with what has happeneda remarkable man and a wonderful physician who touched all our livesa special fund in memory of 'Doctor Fred'to contribute to this memorial, which will help indigent local families in time of medical needin this time of grief, we must rededicate ourselves, in his memory Alongside the editorial is an article headlined "Distance Heals All Wounds," which begins, "We'd all just as soon forgetthat soothing distance will come quicker to some than othersPeter Baliston of the First Congregational Church, in his sermon, sought to find some good in all the tragedywill bring the community closer together in a shared sorrowPatrick's Church gave an impassioned homily Beside that article is a third clipping, one that has no business being there, but he cannot tear that one down any more than he can go ahead and tear down the others, so it, too, hangs there for a yearIt is the interview with Edgar Bartley--both the interview and the picture of Edgar from the ladies omega watches paper, showing him standing in front of his family's house with a shovel and his dog and behind him the path to the house freshly cleared of snowEdgar Bartley is the boy from Old Rimrock who'd taken Merry to the movies in Morristown some two years before the bombingHe was a year ahead of her at the high school, a boy as tall as Merry and, as the Swede remembered him, nice enough looking though terrifically shy and a bit of an oddballThe newspaper story describes him as Merry's boyfriend at the time of the bombing, though as far as her parents knew, Merry's date with Edgar Bartley two years earlier was the one and only date she'd ever had with him or with anyoneWhatever, someone has underlined in black all the quotations attributed to EdgarMaybe a friend of his did it as a joke, a high school jokeMaybe the article with the photograph was hung there as a joke in the first placeJoke or not, there it remains, month after month, and the Swede cannot get rid of it"It doesn't seem realI never thought she would do something like thisI knew her as a very nice girlI never heard her say anything viciousI'm sure something snappedI hope they find her so that she can get the help that she needsI always thought of Old Rimrock as a place where nothing can vintage chanel jewelry happen to youBut now I'm like everybody, I'm looking over my shoulderIt's going to take time before things return to normalI have to forget about itLike nothing happened The only solace the Swede can take from the Community Club bulletin board is that no one has posted there the clipping whose headline reads "Suspected Bomber Is Described as Bright, Gifted but with 'Stubborn Streak'" That one he would have torn downHe would have had to go there in the middle of the night and just do itThis one article is no worse, probably, than any of the others that were appearing then, not just in their local weekly but in the New York papers--the Times, the Daily News, the Daily Mirror, the Post

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Tuesday, 28. September 2010

"He's an imperialist dog "Well, that is one...
By hermannscmb, 10:27

"He's an imperialist dog "Well, that is one opinion "There's no d-d-d-difference between him and Hitler "You're exaggerating, sweetheartI don't say Johnson didn't let us downBut you forget what Hitler did to the Jews, Merry dearYou weren't born then, so you don't remember "He did nothing that Johnson isn't doing to the Vietnamese "The Vietnamese aren't being put into concentration camps "Vietnam is one b-b-big camp! The 'American boys' aren't the issueThat's like saying, 'Get the storm troopers out of Auschwitz in time for balenciaga bag Chris-chris-chris-dinsftnas'" "I gotta be political with the guy, sweetheartI can't write the guy and call him a murderer and expect that he's going to listenRight, Seymour?" "I don't think that would help," the Swede said "Merry, we all feel the way you do," her grandfather told her"Do you understand that? Believe me, I know what it is to read the newspaper and start to go nutsFather Coughlin, that son of a bitchThe hero Charles Lindbergh--pro-Nazi, pro-Hitler, and a so-called national hero in this countryThe great Senator BilboSure we have bastards prada replica handbags in this country--homegrown and plenty of 'emDies and his committeeParnell Thomas from New JerseyIsolationist, bigoted, know-nothing fascists right there in the UCongress, crooks like JParnell Thomas, crooks who wound up in jail and their salaries were paid for by the UThe Goebbels from Wisconsin, the Honorable MrMcCarthy, may he burn in hellA Jew and a disgrace! There have always been sons of bitches here just like there are in every country, and they have been voted into office by all those geniuses out there who have the right to voteAnd what gucci bag black about the newspapers? MrReal fascist, reactionary dogsAnd I have hated their gutsHaven't I, Seymour--hated them?" "You have "Honey, we live in a democracyYou don't have to go around getting angry with your familyYou can write lettersYou can get up on a soapbox and make a speechChrist, you can do what your father did--you can join the marines "Oh, Grandpa--the marines are the prob-prob-prob--" "Then damn it, Merry, join the other side," he said, momentarily losing his grip"How's that? You can join their marines if you want toWhen you're old gucci g watch enough you can go over and fight for the other army if you want itI don't recommend itPeople don't like it, and I think you're smart enough to understand why they don't'Traitor' isn't a pleasant thing to be calledLook at Benedict ArnoldHe went over to the other side, as far as I rememberAnd I suppose I respect himHe stood up for what he believed inHe risked his own life for what he believed inBut he happened to be wrong, Merry, in my estimationHe went over to the other side in the Revolutionary War and, as far as I'm concerned, the man was dead vintage cartier watch wro

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Monday, 27. September 2010

"So you're the guyMy mother says, 'And he was...
By hermannscmb, 10:37

"So you're the guyMy mother says, 'And he was such a nice, quiet child when he came to the house' You know who this is?" the Swede said to the boy"The guy who wrote those books Mystified, the boy shrugged and muttered, "Hi "This is my son Chris "These are friends," I said, sweeping an arm out to introduce the three people with me"And this man," I said to them, "is the greatest athlete in the history of Weequahic HighA real artist in three sportsPlayed first base like Hernandez--thinkingA line-drive doubles hitterDo you know that?" I said to his son"Your dad was our Hernandez "Hernandez's a lefty," he replied "Well, that's the only difference," I said to the little literalist, and put out my hand again to his father"Nice to see you, Swede "Remember me to your brother," I said He laughed, we parted, and someone was saying to me, "Well, well, the greatest athlete in the history of Weequahic High called you'Skip And I did feel almost as white chanel j12 watch wonderfully singled out as I had the one time before, at the age often, when the Swede had got so personal as to recognize me by the playground nickname I'd acquired because of two grades I skipped in grade school Midway through the first inning, the woman with us turned to me and said, "You should have seen your face--you might as well have told us he was ZeusI saw just what you looked like as a boy The following letter reached me by way of my publisher a couple of weeks before Memorial Day, 1995 Dear Skip Zuckerman: I apologize for any inconvenience this letter may cause youYou may not remember our meeting at Shea StadiumI was with my oldest son (now a first-year college student) and you were out with some friends to see the MetsThat was ten years ago, the era of Carter-Gooden-Hernandez, when you could still watch the Mets I am writing to ask if we might meet sometime to talkI'd be delighted to take you to dinner in New York if you omega watch replica would permit me I'm taking the liberty of proposing a meeting because of something I have been thinking about since my father died last yearHe was his feisty, combative self right down to the endThat made it all the harder to see him go, despite his advanced age I would like to talk about him and his lifeI have been trying to write a tribute to him, to be published privately for friends, family, and business associatesMost everybody thought of my father as indestructible, a thick-skinned man on a short fuseThat was far from the truthNot everyone knew how much he suffered because of the shocks that befell his loved onesPlease be assured that I will understand if you haven't time to respond Sincerely, Seymour "Swede" Levov, WHS 1945 Had anyone else asked if he could talk to me about a tribute he was writing to his father, I would have wished him luck and kept my nose out of itBut there were compelling reasons for my getting off a note vintage omega watches to the Swede--within the hour--to say that I was at his disposalThe first was Swede Levov wants to meet meRidiculously, perhaps, at the onset of old age, I had only to see his signature at the foot of the letter to be swamped by memories of him, both on and off the field, that were some fifty years old and yet still captivatingI remembered going up every day to the playing field to watch football practice the year that the Swede first agreed to join the teamHe was already a high-scoring hook-shot artist on the basketball court, but no one knew he could be just as magical on the football field until the coach pressed him into duty as an end and our losing team, though still at the bottom of the city league, was putting up one, two, even three touchdowns a game, all scored on passes to the SwedeFifty or sixty kids gathered along the sidelines at practice to watch the Swede--in a battered leather helmet and the brown jersey numbered, in orange, prada handbags sale 11--working out with the varsity against the JVsThe varsity quarterback, Lefty Leventhal, ran pass play after pass play ("Lev-en- thai to Le-vov' Lev-en-thal to Le-vov'" was an anapest that could always get us going back in the heyday of the Swede), and the task of the JV squad, playing defense, was to stop Swede Levov from scoring every timeI'm over sixty, not exactly someone with the outlook on life that he'd had as a boy, and yet the boy's beguilement has never wholly evaporated, for to this day I haven't forgotten the Swede, after being smothered by tacklers, climbing slowly to his feet, shaking himself off, casting an upward, remonstrative glance at the darkening fall sky, sighing rue-18 fully, and then trotting undamaged back to the huddleWhen he scored, that was one kind of glory, and when he got tackled and piled on hard, and just stood up and shook it off, that was another kind of glory, even in a scrimmage And then one day I shared in that prada bags online glory

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Sunday, 26. September 2010

Smell the inside of a brand-new pussy Her dark...
By hermannscmb, 10:31

Smell the inside of a brand-new pussy Her dark child's eyesFull of excitement and funFull of unreasonablenessAnd only half of it was performanceShe was in an altered stateThe genie of disasterAs though in being his tormentor and wrecking his family she had found the malicious meaning for her own existence "Your physical restraint is amazing," she said"Isn't there anything that can get you off dead center? I didn't believe there were any left like youAny other man would have been overcome by his hard-on hours ago "You're not a womanThis does not make you a woman in any wayThis makes you a travesty of a woman Rapidly firing back at her like a soldier under attack "And a man who won't look, what's he a travesty of?" she asked him"Isn't it just human nature to look? What old omega watches about a man always averting his eyes because it's all too steeped in reality for him? Because nothing is in harmony with the world as he knows it? Thinks he knows itTaste it! Of course it's loathsome, you great big Boy Scout--I'm depraved!" and merrily laughing off his refusal to lower his gaze by so much as an inch, she cried, "Here!" She must have reached inside herself with her hand, her hand must have disappeared inside her, because a moment later it was the whole of her hand that she was extending upward to himThe tips of her fingers bore the smell of her right up to himThat he could not shut out, the fecund smell released from within "This'll unlock the mysteryYou want to know what this has to do with what happened?" she said There was so much emotion in him, so much spy bag fendi uncertainty, so much inclination and counterinclination, he was bursting so with impulse and counterimpulse that he could no longer tell which of them had drawn the line that he would not pass overAll his thinking seemed to be taking place in a foreign language, but still he knew enough not to pass over the lineHe would not pick her up and hurl her against the windowHe would not pick her up and throw her onto the floorHe would not pick her up for any reasonAll the strength left in him would be marshaled to keep him paralyzed at the foot of the bedHe would not go near her The hand she'd offered him she now carried slowly up to her face, making loony, comical little circles in the air as she approached her mouthThen, one by one, she slipped each finger between her lips to hermes borse cleanse it"You know what it tastes like? Want me to tell you? It tastes like your d-d-d-daughter Here he bolted the roomWith all his strengthTen, twelve minutes and it was overBy the time the FBI responded to his phone call and got to the hotel, she was gone, as was the briefcase he had abandonedHe'd bolted not from the childlike cruelty and meanness, not even from the vicious provocation, but from something that he could no longer name Faced with something he could not name, he had done everything wrongIn vain, the Rimrock Bomber's father waits for Rita to reappear at his officeHe did not take her photograph, did not save her fingerprints--no, whenever they met, for those few minutes, she, a child, was bossAnd now she's disappearedWith an agent and a sketch artist to assist hermes vintage him, he is asked to construct a picture of Rita for the FBI, while alone he studies the daily paper and the weekly newsmagazines, searching for the real thingHe waits for Rita's picture to turn upShe is bound to be thereBombs are going off everywhereIn Boulder, Colorado, bombs destroy a Selective Service office and the ROTC headquarters at the University of ColoradoIn Michigan there are explosions at the university and dynamite attacks on a police headquarters and the draft boardIn Wisconsin a bomb destroys a National Guard armory

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Saturday, 25. September 2010

In the rotation of crops there was a recognised...
By hermannscmb, 20:22

In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats

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Thursday, 23. September 2010

Only the day before, her carriage had passed...
By hermannscmb, 20:23

Only the day before, her carriage had passed MrsLovell Mingott's, and the latter had instantly rung the little bell at her elbow and ordered the coachman to drive her home"What if it had happened to Mrsvan der Luyden?" people asked each other with a shudderArcher could hear Lawrence Lefferts, at that very hour, holding forth on the disintegration of society He raised his head irritably when his sister Janey entered, and then quickly bent over his book (Swinburne's "Chastelard"?just out) as if he had not seen herShe glanced at the writing-table heaped with books, opened a volume of the "Contes Drolatiques," made a wry face over the archaic French, and sighed: "What learned things you read!" "Well??" he asked, as she hovered Cassandra-like before him "Mother's very angry "Angry? With whom? About what?" "Miss Sophy replica fendi spy Jackson has just been hereShe brought word that her brother would come in after dinner: she couldn't say very much, because he forbade her to: he wishes to give all the details himselfHe's with cousin Louisa van der Luyden now "For heaven's sake, my dear girl, try a fresh startIt would take an omniscient Deity to know what you're talking about "It's not a time to be profane, NewlandMother feels badly enough about your not going to church With a groan he plunged back into his book "NEWLAND! Do listenYour friend Madame Olenska was at MrsLemuel Struthers's party last night: she went there with the Duke and Mr At the last clause of this announcement a senseless anger swelled the young man's breastTo smother it he laughed"Well, what of it? I knew she meant to Janey paled and her eyes began to project"You knew cartier santos 100 she meant to?and you didn't try to stop her? To warn her?" "Stop her? Warn her?" He laughed again"I'm not engaged to be married to the Countess Olenska!" The words had a fantastic sound in his own ears "You're marrying into her family "Oh, family?family!" he jeered "Newland?don't you care about Family?" "Not a brass farthing "Nor about what cousin Louisa van der Luyden will think?" "Not the half of one?if she thinks such old maid's rubbish "Mother is not an old maid," said his virgin sister with pinched lips He felt like shouting back: "Yes, she is, and so are the van der Luydens, and so we all are, when it comes to being so much as brushed by the wing-tip of Reality But he saw her long gentle face puckering into tears, and felt ashamed of the useless pain he was inflicting "Hang Countess black fendi spy bag Olenska! Don't be a goose, Janey?I'm not her keeper "No

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Wednesday, 22. September 2010

Every one had heard the rumours in question, and...
By hermannscmb, 20:29

Every one had heard the rumours in question, and he scorned to confirm a tale that was already common property A gloomy silence fell upon the partyNo one really liked Beaufort, and it was not wholly unpleasant to think the worst of his private life

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Tuesday, 21. September 2010

Far different was the impression produced by the...
By hermannscmb, 20:16

Far different was the impression produced by the gaunt and mincing lady who followed on MrMingott's arm, in a wild dishevelment of stripes and fringes and floating scarves

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Monday, 20. September 2010

and yet this was the same guy who, with his...
By hermannscmb, 20:21

and yet this was the same guy who, with his co-conspirator wife, had provided Merry a hiding place not only from the FBI but from her father and motherA fact about as fantastic as a fact could beWhat kind of mask is everyone wearing? I thought these people were on my sideBut the mask is all that's on my side--that's it! For four months I wore the mask myself, with him, with my wife, and I could not stand itI went there to tell him thatI went to tell him that I had betrayed him, and only didn't so as not to compound the betrayal, and never once did he let on how cruelly he'd betrayed me "My approval or disapproval," Shelly had been saying to Lou Levov, "is beside the point of whether they go to those movies or not "But you are a physician," the Swede's father insisted, "a respected person, an ethical person, a responsible person--" "Lou," said his wife, "maybe, dear, you're monopolizing the conversation "Let me finish, please To the table at large, he asked, "Am I? Am I monopolizing the conversation?" "Absolutely not," said Marcia, throwing an arm good-naturedly across his back"It's delightful to hear your delusions "I don't know what that means," he told her "It means social conditions may have altered in America since you were taking the kids to eat at the Chinks and Al Haberman was cutting gloves in a shirt and a tie "Really?" Dawn said to her"They've altered? Nobody told us," and, to contain chloe black chloe black herself, got up and left for the kitchenWaiting there for Dawn's instructions were a couple of local high school girls who helped to do the serving and the cleaning up whenever the Levovs had dinner guests Marcia was to one side of Lou Levov, Jessie Orcutt to the otherJessie's new glass of Scotch, which she must have managed to pour for herself in the kitchen, he had picked up from her place and moved out of her reach only minutes into the cold cucumber soupWhen she then made a move to leave the table, he would not allow her to get up"Just sit," he told her Each time she so much as shifted in her chair, he laid a hand firmly on hers to remind her she was going nowhere A dozen candles burned in two tall ceramic candelabra, and to the Swede, who sat flanked by his mother and by Sheila Salz-man, everyone's eyes--deceptively enough, even Marcia's eyes--appeared blessed in that light with spiritual understanding, with kindly lucidity, alive with all the meaning one so craves to find in one's friendsSheila, like Barry, was on hand every year at Labor Day because of what she had come to mean to his folksOn the phone to Florida the Swede almost never got through a conversation without his father's asking, "And how is that lovely Sheila, that lovely woman, how is she doing?" "She is such a dignified woman," his mother said, "such a refined personIsn't she Jewish, darling? Your father says noHe insists she isn't Why this relojes omega disagreement should persist for years he could not understand exactly, but the subject of fair-haired Sheila Salzman's religious origins had proved indispensable to his parents' livesTo Dawn, who'd been trying for decades to be as tolerant of the Swede's imperfect parents as he was of her imperfect mother, this was their most inexplicable preoccupation--their most enraging as well (particularly as Dawn knew that, for her adolescent daughter, Sheila had something Dawn didn't have, that somehow Merry had come to trust the speech therapist in a way she no longer trusted her mother)"Are there no Jewish blonds in the world other than you?" Dawn asked him"It hasn't anything to do with her appearance," the Swede explained, "it has to do with Merry "What does her being Jewish have to do with Merry?" "I don't knowShe was the speech therapistThey're in awe of her," the Swede said, "because of all she did for Merry "She wasn't the child's mother by any chance--or was she?" "They know that, darling," calmly answered the Swede, "but because of the speech therapy, they've made her into some kind of magician And so had he, not so much while she was Merry's therapist--when he had merely found her composure a curious stimulus to sexual imaginings--but after Merry disappeared and grief absconded with his wife Thrown violently off his own narrow perch, he felt an intangible need open hugely within him, a need with no bag chloe paddington bottom to it, and he yielded to a solution so foreign to him that he did not even recognize how improbable it wasIn the quiet, thoughtful woman, who had once made Merry less strange to herself by teaching her how to overcome her word phobias and to control the elaborate circumlo-cutionary devices that, paradoxically, only increased her child's sense of being out of control, was someone he found himself wanting to incorporate into himselfThe man who had lived correctly within marriage for almost twenty years was determined to be senselessly, worshipfully in loveIt was three months before he could begin to understand that this was no way around anything, and it was Sheila who had to tell himHe hadn't gotten a romantic mistress--he'd gotten a candid mistressShe sensibly told him what all his adoration of her meant, told him that he was no more himself with her than Dawn was Dawn at the psychiatric clinic, explained to him that he was out to sabotage everything--but he was in such a state that he went on anyway telling her how, when they ran away together to Ponce, she could learn Spanish and teach techniques of speech therapy at the university there, and he could operate the business from his Ponce plant and they could live in a modern hacienda up in the hills, among the palms, above the Caribbean What she did not tell him about was Merry in her house--after the bombing, Merry hiding in her houseShe told him everything seamaster de ville except thatThe candor stopped just where it should have begun Was everyone's brain as unreliable as his? Was he the only one unable to see what people were up to? Did everyone slip around the way he did, in and out, in and out, a hundred different times a day go from being smart to being smart enough, to being as dumb as the next guy, to being the dumbest bastard who ever lived? Was it stupidity deforming him, the simpleton son of a simpleton father, or was life just one big deception that everyone was on to except him? This sense of inadequacy he might once have described to her

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Sunday, 19. September 2010

My father was one of those Prince Street guys who...
By hermannscmb, 20:23

My father was one of those Prince Street guys who loved that city all his lifeWhat happened to Newark broke his heart "It's the worst city in the world, Skip," the Swede was telling me"Used to be the city where they manufactured everythingNow it's the car-theft capital of the worldDid you know that? Not the most gruesome of the gruesome developments but it's awful enoughThe thieves live mostly in our old neighborhoodForty cars stolen in Newark every twenty-four hoursThat's the statistic Something, isn't it? And they're murder weapons--once they're stolen, they're flying missilesThe target tiffany diamond is anybody in the street--old people, toddlers, doesn't matterOut in front of our factory was the Indianapolis Speedway to themThat's another reason we leftFour, five kids drooping out the windows, eighty miles an hour--right on Central AvenueWhen my father bought the factory, there were trolley cars on Central AvenueFurther down were the auto showroomsThere was a factory where somebody was making something in every side streetNow there's a liquor store in every street--a liquor store, a pizza stand, and a seedy storefront churchEverything else in ruins or boarded upBut when my father bought black and white chanel the factory, a stone's throw away Kiler made watercoolers, Fortgang made fire alarms, Lasky made corsets, Robbins made pillows, Honig made pen points--Christ, I sound like my fatherBut he was right--'The joint's jumpin',' he used to sayThe major industry now is car theftSit at a light in Newark, anywhere in Newark, and all you're doing is looking around youBergen near Lyons is where I got rammedRemember Henry's, 'the Sweet Shop,' next to the Park Theater? Well, right there, where Henry's used to beTook my first high school date to Henry's for a sodaTook her for a black-and-white soda after replicas bolsas the movieBut a black-and-white doesn't mean a soda anymore on Bergen StreetIt means the worst kind of hatred in the worldA car coming the wrong way on a one-way street and they ram meFour kids drooping out the windowsTwo of them get out, laughing, joking, and point a gun at my headI hand over the keys and one of them takes off in my carRight in front of what used to be Henry'sIt's something horribleThey ram cop cars in broad daylightTo explode the air bagsHeard of doughnuting? Doing doughnuts? You haven't heard about this? This is what they steal the cars forTop speed, they slam on the brakes, chloe black yank the emergency brake, twist the steering wheel, and the car starts spinningWheeling the car in circles at tremendous speedsKilling pedestrians means nothing to themKilling motorists means nothing to themKilling themselves means nothing to themThe skid marks are enough to frighten youThey killed a woman right out in front of our place, same week my car was stolenI was leaving for the dayIt made my blood run coldJust driving her own car out of 2nd Street, and this woman, young black woman, gets itTwo days later it's one of my own employeesBut they don't care, black, white doesn't matter to louis vuitton neo t

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Saturday, 18. September 2010

He had determined to wait till the chance...
By hermannscmb, 20:17

He had determined to wait till the chance presented itself naturally

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