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They passed through, and walked along a footpath which cut for fifty feet through a patch of brushOn the other side the four howitzers were extended in a short battery front, not more than fifty yards separating the two flank pieces, their nozzles pointing above the jungle in the direction of the Japanese linesThe moonlight [...]

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He was filled suddenly with a lust for the gold teethHe could hear the men thrashing about in the cave, swearing thickly to one another, and despite himself he looked down again at the gaping mouth of the cadaverNo good to him, he told himselfTensely he was trying to estimate how much the teeth were [...]

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I dreamed the undertow took you and you drowned “I didn’t drown, IlseI’m okay, I promise you The story came out in fragments and bursts, interrupted by tears and digressionsIt was clear to me that hearing my voice had steadied her but not cured herShe was wandering, strangely unfixed in time; she referred to the [...]

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Noveen says There are secret thingsBuried treasures a big storm will uncoverThings Daddy would like to find and look at And that turned the trickElizabeth cared only a little about painting a storm, but pleasing her Daddy? That idea was irresistible Because Daddy was angry that yearMad at Adie, who wouldn’t go back to school [...]

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There are all the friends, all the people you understand immediately, and in the Army, in the bare alien worlds of the barracks and the bivouacs, Goldstein fumbles for a new answer, a new securityAnd in his misery the old habits wither away like bark in winter, and he is left without a garmentHis mind [...]

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You look like him, come to think of itI met him when I was out of the Army in ‘thirty-seven, organizing the stock for a couple of companiesHis father would throw back his straight black hair, and clap Conn on the back with one of his meaty moist hands”Hell you say, man,” he could hear [...]

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It’s a fascinating paradoxThey have that game of theirs, go, which is all feverish activity, all turning of flanks, and encirclements, and then when they fight they act like wounded animals who roar down clumsily when the flies become too goadingIt’s not the way to work itIn an army whenever you have unnecessary precautions, men [...]

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I could see one of his legs plunged down like a piston to the next intact rung, and there was a healthy ripping sound”Man oh man oh fucking man “What’s happening?” Wireman nearly roared “Jack Cantori ripped out the seat of his pants,” I said”Now shut up a minuteJack, you’re almost thereShe’s in the flashlight, [...]

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“There’s a little pantry with all kinds of canned shiThe cable’s hooked up, the computer’s Internet-ready – I got you Wi- Fi, costs a little extra, but it’s way cool – and I can get satellite installed if you want itHe was a good kid, but I wanted to listen to the Gulf, sweet-talking me [...]

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You know you feel sorrier for yourself and sorrier for everybody else than most people do Roth, who had been lying beside them, quite silent until now, roused himself”I’d like to take exception to that The generalization made him apprehensive, as if a drunk were mouthing abuse at him “What do ya mean?” Minetta snappedRoth [...]

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