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“That’s okay,” Goldstein said Roth felt as if he were no longer wantedHe stood up and stretched his body”I guess I’ll be taking off,” he saidHe rubbed his hand along his thin forearm “Stay around awhile,” Goldstein said “No, I want to get some sleep before guard Roth started walking back to his tentIn the [...]

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Once-” He looked like he had more to say, maybe a lot, but 959 didn’t know how to say itHe took another step back, insteadI had a moment to contemplate the eccentricity of fear: what the weird jockey hadn’t been able to accomplish (close, but that only counts in horseshoes), a colony of sleeping brown [...]

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Caldwell almost bust a gut laughingHe liked his good time, Caldwell Dove was visibly shocked”I can’t say I’ve ever seen anything like thatGod, isn’t it disgusting, you’re out in the open air like this, and the chaplain’s probably giving his services now “Well, we really shouldn’t be talking like this on Sunday,” Conn agreed, “but [...]

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As he advanced, he awakened slowly, flexing his arms and pinching the back of his neckHe had been partially asleep while he had talked to Croft, or at least nothing that was said had any significance to himHe had understood the directions, the mission, he had known that Croft was telling him to do something [...]

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Goldstein shook his head abruptly”We have to carry him back,” he saidHe could not have explained why, but he had remembered abruptly the moment when the gun slid down the embankment Brown stared again at Stanley”We can’t go on and leave him here Ridges was disgusted”If y’ start a job, then y’ finish itWe ain’t [...]

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“What the hell do you think it’s for? For a stretcherNow git goin’, you men Muttering, they picked up a couple of machetes, and filed out of the hollow to the groveIn a minute or so, the platoon could hear them hacking away at the treesCroft spat disgustedly”Them men are enough to frost your nuts [...]

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Gandalf lay in the street, in a pool of his spreading blood, howlingAnd now I could also remember the sound the crane had madeNot the meep-meep-meep it was supposed to make (its backup warning had been broken), but the juddering stutter of its diesel engine and the sound of its treads eating up the earth [...]

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It was like being given a tongue when you had been muteIt was like being given back your memory, and a person’s memory is everything, really Even from that first line – that incredibly brave first line meant to show where the Gulf met the sky – she had understood that seeing and memory were [...]

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She burned the picture and she’s asleep in her apartment a thousand miles from here, safe and sound “It means nothing,” I said, but now the wind blowing my hair back felt cold instead of warmI began to limp toward Big Pink, down where the sand was wet and packed and shiningThe peeps flew up [...]

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At last they would weave off the trail and go pitching into the bushes stupidly before regaining their balanceIn the darkness such noises were terrifyingIt made the men uncomfortably aware of how close they were to the fightingA half mile away some rifles were firing “Goddammit,” one of them would whisper, “can’t you guys keep [...]

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