Return-path: <annyjoannes@lfrs.org>
Envelope-to: czf@soundsgoodmusic.net
Delivery-date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:19:10 +0000
Received: from abms75.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl ([83.7.238.75])
	by server.pickawebhosting.net with smtp (Exim 4.66)
	(envelope-from <annyjoannes@lfrs.org>)
	id 1I5pm9-0006ow-4Q
	for czf@soundsgoodmusic.net; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:19:10 +0000
Received: from [100.57.124.148] (HELO bellman.cnet.com)
    by globoxchange.com with SMTP id PP82HD91OP
    for <czf@soundsgoodmusic.net>; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:19:02 -0800
Received: from programmer.backtable.org (EHLO backtable.org.cash-traffic.com [93.234.160.236])
    by autodesk.com with SMTP id 5BCFPC9BS9
    for <czf@soundsgoodmusic.net>; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:13:02 +0300
From: "Dewey Rosenberg" <yasmeenaric@backtable.org>
To: "Czf" <czf@soundsgoodmusic.net>
Subject: Fwd: !
X-MSMail-Priority: 3 (Normal)
User-Agent: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html;
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<html>
<body                           =20bgcolor=3D"#FFFFF9"          =20text=3D=
"#000006">
<p><b><font                  =20size=3D"3"                        =20color=
=3D"#FF0004">R</font></b><br>
<b><font  =20size=3D"3"              =20color=3D"#FF0009">O</font></b><br>=

<b><font            =20size=3D"3"         =20color=3D"#FF0005">L          =
      =20</font></b>Full =2018K                       =20Gold=20Daytona   =
 =20-       =20$269.00<br>
<font            =20size=3D"3"><b><font                         =20color=3D=
"#FF0007">E</font></b></font><br>
<b><font                               =20size=3D"3"             =20color=3D=
"#FF0009">X</font></b><br>
</p>
<p>Y<u></u>e<u></u>s             =20i<u></u>t<b></b>'<b></b>s =20o<b></b>u=
<u></u>r             =20r<font></font>e<l></l>a<font></font>l             =
  =20p<b></b>r<u></u>i<u></u>c<font></font>e<u></u>s,                     =
               =20o<u></u>v<l></l>e<b></b>r              =201000          =
                            =20models          =20just                    =
 =20for                                        =20you!</p>
<p>Visit                   =20our                                    =20s<=
u></u>h<u></u>o<font></font>p:</p>
<p><a             =20href=3D"http://081.apsvtairyigsalive.com">http://081.=
apsvtairyigsalive.com</a></p>
<p><font                                        =20color=3D"#FFFFF7">Did i=
t make sense to ask them?                           =20PLEASE DON'T=A0=97 =
"Too bad you'll never read it,=BBPaul said, and smiled at her.            =
                        =20He turned toward her, groping for his service p=
istol, and Annie drove the cross point-first into his belly.           =20=
She had done it, and all the time between then and now had been pain and b=
oredom and occasional bouts of work on his stupidly melodramatic book to e=
scape the former two.                      =20Both lines blurred smudgily =
in the direction his thumb was travelling, the pencil-line slightly more t=
han the one he had drawn with the pen.                           =20The Ma=
sked Avenger, and Flash Gordon, even one about Frank Buck, the man who wen=
t to Africa to catch wild animals and who could subdue lions and tigers ju=
st by staring at them.              =20AUTHORITY had arrived at Annie's, a=
nd its arrival here could do nothing but shorten his own life.Now Paul cou=
ld see his eyes.  =20Why, F.       =20So maybe.                   =20"Surp=
rised no one thought of calling it The Stool Sample.                      =
 =20The D.</font></p>
<p><font            =20color=3D"#FFFFF8">But now he ate it hungrily, with =
all the trimmings, as if discovering the great principle of food for the f=
irst time in his life.       =20Interspersed among the accounts of the tri=
al were Letters to the Editor printed in the Denver and Boulder newspapers=
                                 =20There was a queer interval of silence=
, and Paul was frightened by what he saw on her face, because what he saw =
was nothing; the black nothing of a crevasse folded into an alpine meadow,=
 a blackness where no flowers grew and into which the drop might be long. =
                        =20This hypnotic state of absorption was rudely sh=
aken but not broken when, on the third day after the visit of David and Go=
liath, a cream-colored Ford station wagon with KTKA / Grand Junction writt=
en on the side pulled into Annie's driveway.      =20He brought his left l=
eg down, and although it took his weight and saved him the fall, the pain =
was excruciating=A0=97 it felt as if a dozen bolts had suddenly been drive=
n into the bone.     =20I'll put it under my tongue when I swallow the oth=
er one, then stick it under my mattress with the other pills when she take=
s the drinking glass out.             =20Saw him melting magically through=
 the bulkhead and reintegrating his corpse's body down here.              =
           =20"He went on looking at her and after a moment she looked awa=
y, impatient and a little flustered.       =20The last few days, he though=
t, had been like some nightmare autographing session that just never ended=
                 =20A pretty young woman was getting out of the front pas=
senger seat, fluffing her blow-dried hair and pausing for one final apprai=
sing look at her makeup in the outside rear-view mirror before joining her=
 camera-man.                          =20This neat and tidy structure with=
 its dark-red paint and neat cream-colored trim looked like the five-car g=
arage of a well-to-do country squire masquerading as a barn.              =
                  =20He was fully awake now, thinking fast and hard, but n=
ot really aware of the process.                                      =20If=
 she shot Goliath first, she might very well be able to put a slug in Davi=
d's face before he could get that oogy goddam coat unbuttoned and his gun =
out.           =20The last few days, he thought, had been like some nightm=
are autographing session that just never ended.                           =
  =20This time she was not heading downhill, toward Sidewinder, but up int=
o the high country.                             =20"He had chalked it off =
to the pain and to being in a situation where he was not just writing for =
his supper but for his life.       =20It would be easy=A0=97 too easy=A0=97=
 to blame everything on his broken bones, or the dope, when in fact so muc=
h of it had been the book.                              =20When he was don=
e, he would roll the wheelchair slowly (he could have gone much faster, bu=
t it was just as well that Annie should not know that) over to the bed.   =
                     =20He would walk with a limp for the rest of his life=
 the doctors told him, but he would walk, and eventually he would walk wit=
hout pain.                                    =20She had been a vain and f=
oolish creature, dangerous as well =97 she had almost gotten them killed w=
hen she had freed Stringfellow's bushmaster =97 but silly or not, foolish =
or not, dangerous or not, no man or women deserved to die like that.    =20=
Although the curtains guarding the bow windows were only half-drawn, affor=
ding a lovely view of the mountains, the room seemed too dark=A0=97 becaus=
e its colors were too dark, he thought.      =20and he was coming more and=
 more awake all the time, and at every second the dull sorrow settled more=
 deeply over him, the awareness that his darling was gone.</font></p>
</body>
</html>
