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His thighs felt hot and wet, and at first he thought, I’m woundedIt was pleasant and peaceful, and he had a misty picture of a hospital bedHe moved his hand back, and realized with both revulsion and mirth that he had emptied his bowels Hennessey froze his bodyIf I don’t move, I won’t get any [...]

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Behind that trio came seemingly everyone else in the gallery 717 I wasn’t sure there would be room to get her chair in between the makeshift bar set-up and the wall, but there was, justI started to push it down that narrow aisle, grateful that we’d at least be leaving the rest of the retinue [...]

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I was the last one to be repulsed by her lapse into vulgarity; I understood it too wellMaybe the quality of mercy isn’t strained, there are 372 millions of us who live and die by the idea, but we have things like this waiting She said, “He never should have got that thing, but he [...]

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“It’s probably the change in climate,” she said I had no doubt those things were part of it, but I didn’t think they were all of itMaybe it was crazy, but I thought drawing had played a partIn fact, it was something I sort of knew We talked for awhile, and little by little I [...]

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These guys who been around in the platoon for a long time, they think they own it, when all they do is fug-off on the details, and just try to make it hard for youThey give me a pain in the ass His voice became husky with admission”I know I got a tough job, and [...]

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All right and so was heWhat was corruption but knowing virtue and eschewing it? All very neatAnd where did General Cummings fit in? That was a bigger question, that was one which couldn’t be tied up in a packageIn any case he was going to stay away from the GeneralCummings had left him alone, and [...]

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He had never seen combat before, and it was unfair to leave him alone; Hennessey began to feel bitter at being desertedThe jungle looked dark and ominous like a sky blacking over with thundercloudsSuddenly, he knew he couldn’t stay here any longerHe got out of his hole, clutched his rifle, and started to crawl away [...]

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He waited until O’Brien started collecting the plates, and then walked across the bivouac to the operations tentHe saw a few enlisted men lying in their pup tents, and it irritated himHe was wondering which platoon they were in when he remembered the reportHe moved toward the operations tent, picked up the phone, and ordered [...]

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There was just enough light for them to notice it, and they walked over slowly”Where are we now?” Ridges asked “Second Battalion headquarters,” Croft said”What’ve you been working on the road for all this time if you don’t even know where you are?” “Shoot, Ah just work, Ah don’ spend mah time lookin’ around,” Ridges [...]

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the house, with what looked like a Negro lawn jockey standing on its headthe ship, that gorgeous white swallow John Eastlake screamingblood running from his nose and one eye I stared at it, mesmerizedIt was a child’s watercolor, but it had been executed with hellish 801 skillIt depicted a man who looked insane with terror, [...]

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