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    Tomorrow there would be the first parade and inspection, and the Major anticipated it eagerlyHe obtained a simple childish joy from seeing the troops march past in clean uniforms, in picking a file at random and inspecting their riflesBefore they moved on to the Philippines he was determined to get the division marching decently again
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    This training was what he liked; there was no getting away from itEven making up the schedule for each company was a problem, but a good oneIt was a little like filling out a crossword puzzleThe Major lit a cigar and stared out past the galvanized-iron walls of the operations shack across the hundred gucci watches ladies yards of jungle to the ocean that lapped delicately against the beachHe breathed deeply, savoring the pungent fish smell of the waterHe always did his best, no one could deny thatA rosy satisfaction eddied through him
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    2:46 am
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    I want to thank my wife, the novelist Tabitha King,
    who read this book in an early draft and suggested
    valuable changes; the Sweet Owen cookie-tin was
    only one of them
    I want to thank Russ Dorr, my old medical friend,
    who patiently explained both Broca's area and the
    physics of contracoup injuries
    I also want to thank Chuck Verrill, who edited the
    book with his usual combination of gentleness and
    ruthlessness
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    Teddy Rosenbaum, my friend and copy-editor: muchas
    gracias
    And you, my old friend Constant Reader; always youA Word from the Publisher to the ReaderTwenty-seven years ago I was fortunate enough to be associated with the publication of John Dos Passos' Three SoldiersIn no year since have I felt the same surge of excitement for a war novel -- not until the manuscript of Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead was readied for publication
    There is no direct parallel between the two booksThe world has changed and toughened since Dos Passos wroteThe Naked and the Dead is a tougher book, one that reflects the variables that time and change have introducedBut, like its distinguished predecessor, Norman Mailer's book is essentially the story of men themselves rather than of their sometimes purposeless fightingThese men who tear their hearts out trying to capture an island from the Japanese are the product of the years they have livedThey have been formed by their wives, their sweethearts, their farms, their jobs, their collegesTo each, war has been an activating agent
    I believe you will never forget these men -- frightened men, sometimes obscene, humorous, sick, scabrous, full of yearning for home as it was, or home as it seems in memoryThey are men in war, but like most of us, they do not know where they are going; they know only their own past
    Because I believe The Naked and the Dead is a great novel I can say that if you have read Thomas Boyd's Through the Wheat, Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Hemingway's Farewell to Arms, or Three Soldiers, you cannot afford to pass by this astonishing performance by a young man who at twenty-five knows more about the core of man than many a writer of twice his years
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    2:46 am
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    And without attempting any farther remonstrance, she left Fanny
    to her fate, a fate which, had not Fanny’s heart been guarded in a
    way unsuspected by Miss Crawford, might have been a little harder
    than she deserved; for although there doubtless are such unconquerable
    young ladies of eighteen (or one should not read about
    them) as are never to be persuaded into love against their judgment
    by all that talent, manner, attention, and flattery can do, I have no
    inclination to believe Fanny one of them, or to think that with so
    much tenderness of disposition, and so much taste as belonged to
    her, she could have escaped heart-whole from the courtship (though
    the courtship only of a fortnight) of such a man as Crawford, in
    spite of there being some previous ill opinion of him to be overcome,
    had not her affection been engaged elsewhereWith all the
    security which love of another and disesteem of him could give to
    the peace of mind he was attacking, his continued attentions—continued,
    but not obtrusive, and adapting themselves more and more
    to the gentleness and delicacy of her character—obliged her very soon
    to dislike him less than formerlyShe had by no means forgotten the
    past, and she thought as ill of him as ever; but she felt his powers: he
    was entertaining; and his manners were so improved, so polite, so
    seriously and blamelessly polite, that it was impossible not to be civil
    to him in return
    A very few days were enough to effect this; and at the end of those
    few days, circumstances arose which had a tendency rather to forward
    his views of pleasing her, inasmuch as they gave her a degree of
    happiness which must dispose her to be pleased with everybody
    William, her brother, the so long absent and dearly loved brother,
    was in England againShe had a letter from him herself, a few hurried
    happy lines, written as the ship came up Channel, and sent
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    into Portsmouth with the first boat that left the Antwerp at anchor
    in Spithead; and when Crawford walked up with the newspaper in
    his hand, which he had hoped would bring the first tidings, he found
    her trembling with joy over this letter, and listening with a glowing,
    grateful countenance to the kind invitation which her uncle was
    most collectedly dictating in reply
    It was but the day before that Crawford had made himself thoroughly
    master of the subject, or had in fact become at all aware of
    her having such a brother, or his being in such a ship, but the interest
    then excited had been very properly lively, determining him on
    his return to town to apply for information as to the probable period
    of the Antwerp’s return from the Mediterranean, etc and the
    good luck which attended his early examination of ship news the
    next morning seemed the reward of his ingenuity in finding out
    such a method of pleasing her, as well as of his dutiful attention to
    the Admiral, in having for many years taken in the paper esteemed
    to have the earliest naval intelligenceHe proved, however, to be too
    lateAll those fine first feelings, of which he had hoped to be the
    exciter, were already givenBut his intention, the kindness of his
    intention, was thankfully acknowledged: quite thankfully and
    warmly, for she was elevated beyond the common timidity of her
    mind by the flow of her love for William
    This dear William would soon be amongst themThere could be
    no doubt of his obtaining leave of absence immediately, for he was
    still only a midshipman; and as his parents, from living on the spot,
    must already have seen him, and be seeing him perhaps daily, his
    direct holidays might with justice be instantly given to the sister,
    who had been his best correspondent through a period of seven
    years, and the uncle who had done most for his support and advancement;
    and accordingly the reply to her reply, fixing a very early
    day for his arrival, came as soon as possible; and scarcely ten days
    had passed since Fanny had been in the agitation of her first dinnervisit,
    when she found herself in an agitation of a higher nature,
    watching in the hall, in the lobby, on the stairs, for the first sound of
    the carriage which was to bring her a brother
    It came happily while she was thus waiting; and there being neither
    ceremony nor fearfulness to delay the moment of meeting, she was
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    with him as he entered the house, and the first minutes of exquisite
    feeling had no interruption and no witnesses, unless the servants chiefly
    intent upon opening the proper doors could be called suchThis was
    exactly what Sir Thomas and Edmund had been separately conniving
    at, as each proved to the other by the sympathetic alacrity with which
    they both advised MrsNorris’s continuing where she was, instead of
    rushing out into the hall as soon as the noises of the arrival reached
    them
    William and Fanny soon shewed themselves; and Sir Thomas had
    the pleasure of receiving, in his protege, certainly a very different
    person from the one he had equipped seven years ago, but a young
    man of an open, pleasant countenance, and frank, unstudied, but
    feeling and respectful manners, and such as confirmed him his friend
    It was long before Fanny could recover from the agitating happiness
    of such an hour as was formed by the last thirty minutes of
    expectation, and the first of fruition; it was some time even before
    her happiness could be said to make her happy, before the disappointment
    inseparable from the alteration of person had vanished,
    and she could see in him the same William as before, and talk to
    him, as her heart had been yearning to do through many a past year
    That time, however, did gradually come, forwarded by an affection
    on his side as warm as her own, and much less encumbered by refinement
    or self-distrustShe was the first object of his love, but it
    was a love which his stronger spirits, and bolder temper, made it as
    natural for him to express as to feelOn the morrow they were walking
    about together with true enjoyment, and every succeeding morrow
    renewed a tete-a-tete which Sir Thomas could not but observe
    with complacency, even before Edmund had pointed it out to him
    Excepting the moments of peculiar delight, which any marked or
    unlooked-for instance of Edmund’s consideration of her in the last
    few months had excited, Fanny had never known so much felicity
    in her life, as in this unchecked, equal, fearless intercourse with the
    brother and friend who was opening all his heart to her, telling her
    all his hopes and fears, plans, and solicitudes respecting that long
    thought of, dearly earned, and justly valued blessing of promotion;
    who could give her direct and minute information of the father and
    mother, brothers and sisters, of whom she very seldom heard; who
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    was interested in all the comforts and all the little hardships of her
    home at Mansfield; ready to think of every member of that home as
    she directed, or differing only by a less scrupulous opinion, and
    more noisy abuse of their aunt Norris, and with whom (perhaps the
    dearest indulgence of the whole) all the evil and good of their earliest
    years could be gone over again, and every former united pain
    and pleasure retraced with the fondest recollectionAn advantage
    this, a strengthener of love, in which even the conjugal tie is beneath
    the fraternalChildren of the same family, the same blood,
    with the same first associations and habits, have some means of
    enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connexions can
    supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a
    divorce which no subsequent connexion can justify, if such precious
    remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlivedToo
    often, alas! it is so
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    2:46 am
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    “Okay, Cull, I’ll simply refer him to you,” said the Redhead, otherwise known as the vice
    president of the United States, as he hung up the phone
    It rang four minutes later and the words were spat out at Parnell“Snake Lady, Culver, and we’re
    all in trouble!”
    “No, you listen to me, Divot Head, and I’ll tell you who’s in trouble! She’s no lady, she’s a
    bitch! One of her thirty or forty eunuch husbands may have thrown a few snake eyes in Saigon and
    lost some of her well-advertised come-and-take-me cash, but nobody gave a shit then and nobody
    gives a shit nowEspecially a marine colonel who liked a sharp game of poker every once in a
    while, and that man is sitting in the Oval Office at this momentAnd furthermore, you ball-less
    scrotum, when he learns that she’s trying to further defame the brave boys who wanted only a little
    relaxation while fighting a thankless war—”
    In Vienna, Virginia, Alexander Conklin replaced the phoneMisfire One and Misfire Two and
    he had never heard of Culver Parnell
    The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Albert Armbruster, swore out loud as he turned
    off the shower at the sound of his wife’s shrieking voice in the steam-filled bathroom“What the
    hell is it, Mamie? I can’t take a shower without you yammering?”
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    “It could be the White House, Al! You know how they talk, so low and quiet and always saying
    it’s urgent
    “Shit!” yelled the chairman, opening the glass door and walking naked to the phone on the wallWhat is it?”
    “There’s a crisis that requires your immediate attention
    “Is this 1600?”
    “No, and we hope it never goes up there
    “Then who the hell are you?”
    “Someone as concerned as you’re going to beAfter all these years—oh, Christ!”
    “Concerned about what? What are you talking about?”
    “Snake Lady, Mr
    “Oh, my God!” Armbruster’s hushed voice was a sudden involuntary cry of panicInstantly, he
    controlled himself but it was too late“I have no idea what you’re talking about
    What’s a snake whatever-it-is? Never heard of it
    “Well, hear it now, MrSomebody’s got it all, everythingDates, diversions of
    matériel, banks in Geneva and Zurich—even the names of a half-dozen couriers routed out of
    Saigon—and worseJesus, the worst! Other names—MIAs established as never having been in
    combat eight investigating personnel from the inspector general’s office
    “You’re not making sense! You’re talking gibberish!”
    “And you’re on the list, MrThat man must have spent fifteen years putting it
    together, and now he wants payment for all those years of work or he blows it open—everything,
    ever
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    2:46 am
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    "Don't tell me things like that, I'll have a seizure
    Little monkey, she climbs everything Scarlett called for Cat and
    looked for Cat to no availSometimes the little girl's independence
    annoyed her, like nowUsually she was proud"I guess she'll catch
    up with us if she's interested," she said at last
    "Let's go, I'm dying to see Might as well admit itShe wasn't
    fooling anybodyCharlotte led the way upstairs first to long
    corridors lined with bedrooms for guests, then back down again to
    what
    Scarlett still had trouble calling the first floor instead of, in
    American usage, the secondCharlotte took her to the end of the
    house
    away from the rooms she'd been using"Your bedroom, your bath,
    your
    boudoir, your dressing room, Cat's playroom, bedroom, nursery The
    doors flew open as Charlotte unveiled her labors
    Scarlett was enchanted with the feminine pale-green-and-gilt furniture
    in her rooms and the frieze of alphabet animal paintings in Cat's
    playroomThe child-size chairs and tables made her clap her hands
    Why hadn't she thought of it? There was even a child-size tea set on
    Cat's table and a child-size chair by the hearth"Your private rooms
    are French," said Charlotte, "Louis Sixteenth, if you careThey
    represent your Robillard selfYour O 'Hara self dominates the
    reception rooms on the ground floor The only ground floor room that
    Scarlett knew was the marblefloored hallShe used its door to the
    drive and the broad stone staircase to the upper floorsCharlotte
    Montague led her quickly through it
    She opened tall double doors on one side of it and ushered Scarlett
    into the dining room"My stars," Scarlett exclaimed, "I don't know
    enough people to fill up all those ch
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    CHAPTER 22
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    Jeb put his hands behind his head and looked up at the dark ceiling, his face thoughtfulHis
    chatty mood had not passed
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    2:46 am
    @@@@@"No matter how many times you wear a goddam
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    "Have you got it adjusted right?" Hennessey askedHis voice was stiff and quivered a little
    "Fug the adjustments," Red said"It just makes me ache somewhere elseI ain't built for a pack, I got too many bones He kept on talking, glancing at Hennessey every now and then to see whether he was less nervousThe air was chill, and the sun at his left was still low and quiet without any heatHe stamped his feet, breathing the curious odor of a ship's deck, oil and tar and the fish smell of the water
    "When do we get into the boats?" Hennessey asked
    The shelling was still going on over the beach, and the island looked pale green in the dawnA thin wispy line of smoke trailed along the shore"What! Do ya think this is gonna be any different today? I figure we'll be on deck all morning But as he spoke, he noticed a group of landing craft circling about a mile from them in the water"The first wave's still farting around," he reassured HennesseyFor an instant he thought again of the Motome invasion, and felt a trace of that panic catching him againHis fingertips still remembered the texture of the sides of the rubber boat as he had clung to it in the waterAt the back of his throat he tasted salt water again, felt the dumb whimpering terror of ducking underwater when he was exhausted and the Jap guns would not stopHe looked out again, his shaggy face quite bleak for a moment
    In the distance the jungle near the beach had assumed the naked broken look which a shelling always gave itThe palm trees would be standing like pillars now, stripped of their leaves, and blackened if there had been a fireOff the horizon Mount Anaka was almost invisible in the haze, a pale gray-blue color almost a compromise between the hues of the water and the skyAs he watched, a big shell landed on the shore and threw up a larger puff of smoke than the two or three that had preceded itThis was going to be an easy landing, Red told himself, but he was still thinking about the rubber boats"I wish to hell they'd save some of that country for us," he said to Hennes
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    2:46 am
    @@@@@I am aware that there has been sometimes,
    @@@@@I
    am aware that there has been sometimes, in some points, a misplaced
    distinction; but I think too well of you, Fanny, to suppose
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    you will ever harbour resentment on that accountYou have an understanding
    which will prevent you from receiving things only in
    part, and judging partially by the eventYou will take in the whole
    of the past, you will consider times, persons, and probabilities, and
    you will feel that they were not least your friends who were educating
    and preparing you for that mediocrity of condition which seemed
    to be your lotThough their caution may prove eventually unnecessary,
    it was kindly meant; and of this you may be assured, that every
    advantage of affluence will be doubled by the little privations and
    restrictions that may have been imposedI am sure you will not
    disappoint my opinion of you, by failing at any time to treat your
    aunt Norris with the respect and attention that are due to herI must speak to you for a few
    minutes, but I will not detain you long
    Fanny obeyed, with eyes cast down and colour risingAfter a
    moment’s pause, Sir Thomas, trying to suppress a smile, went on
    “You are not aware, perhaps, that I have had a visitor this morning
    I had not been long in my own room, after breakfast, when Mr
    Crawford was shewn inHis errand you may probably conjecture
    Fanny’s colour grew deeper and deeper; and her uncle, perceiving
    that she was embarrassed to a degree that made either speaking or
    looking up quite impossible, turned away his own eyes, and without
    any farther pause proceeded in his account of MrCrawford’s business had been to declare himself the lover of
    Fanny, make decided proposals for her, and entreat the sanction of
    the uncle, who seemed to stand in the place of her parents; and he
    had done it all so well, so openly, so liberally, so properly, that Sir
    Thomas, feeling, moreover, his own replies, and his own remarks to
    have been very much to the purpose, was exceedingly happy to give
    the particulars of their conversation; and little aware of what was
    passing in his niece’s mind, conceived that by such details he must
    be gratifying her far more than himselfHe talked, therefore, for
    several minutes without Fanny’s daring to interrupt himShe had
    hardly even attained the wish to do itHer mind was in too much
    confusionShe had changed her position; and, with her eyes fixed
    intently on one of the windows, was listening to her uncle in the
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    utmost perturbation and dismayFor a moment he ceased, but she
    had barely become conscious of it, when, rising from his chair, he
    said, “And now, Fanny, having performed one part of my commission,
    and shewn you everything placed on a basis the most assured
    and satisfactory, I may execute the remainder by prevailing on you
    to accompany me downstairs, where, though I cannot but presume
    on having been no unacceptable companion myself, I must submit
    to your finding one still better worth listening toCrawford, as
    you have perhaps foreseen, is yet in the houseHe is in my room,
    and hoping to see you there
    There was a look, a start, an exclamation on hearing this, which
    astonished Sir Thomas; but what was his increase of astonishment
    on hearing her exclaim—”Oh! no, sir, I cannot, indeed I cannot go
    down to himCrawford ought to know—he must know that: I
    told him enough yesterday to convince him; he spoke to me on this
    subject yesterday, and I told him without disguise that it was very
    disagreeable to me, and quite out of my power to return his good
    opinion
    “I do not catch your meaning,” said Sir Thomas, sitting down
    again“Out of your power to return his good opinion? What is all
    this? I know he spoke to you yesterday, and (as far as I understand)
    received as much encouragement to proceed as a well-judging young
    woman could permit herself to g
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
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    “That’s enough!” ordered Bourne as he cautiously reached up, snapping off the desk lamp,
    leaving the dim light from the hallway through the shattered door as the only illumination“I’m
    calling Alex; he can send the doctor—”
    Suddenly, from somewhere outside, there was a high-pitched scream, a roar of shock and
    anguish Jason knew only too wellSo did Cactus, who whispered, his eyes shut tight: “He got one
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    “I’m reaching Conklin,” said Jason, pulling the phone off of the desk“Then I’ll go out and get
    himOh, Christ! The line’s out—it’s been cut!”
    “That honky knows his way around hereStay as quiet as you canI’ll be back for you—”
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    when it was built
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    "Don't be so sure," I saidJack had reversed to
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    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
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    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
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