tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48658973952238627932024-03-13T16:15:44.904-07:00code 9 from nova basecode 9 is a dynamic new approach to human communicationrhodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10694315635082071848noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865897395223862793.post-79756610496019085532023-11-13T04:59:00.000-08:002023-11-13T04:59:01.049-08:00the wind and the rain - cast of characters<br>
<font color = "navy"> by nick nelson </font>
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<font color = "navy">joe, a wanderer
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mrs murphy lee, a conjure woman
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grover, a pickup truck driver
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astrid, a waitress
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pop, a proprietor
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tank, a guard and enforcer
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claudia, an orphan
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aunt edith, an impoverished heiress
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cousin jeffrey, an impoverished heir
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mrs cole, a cook
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richardson robinson, an adventurer and idealist
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aunt arlene. an aunt
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cousin waldo, a cousin
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uncle chester, an uncle
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marlowe, a butler
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harold brown, a friendly fellow
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walter wilson, harold’s twin, an attorney
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mr amenhotep, a financier
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clyde hooper, a clumsy boy
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daisy dempster, an angry girl
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mrs melody mason, a schoolmistress
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jack, a future ruler of the world
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bucky, a dog
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constance johnson, a trainer of world rulers and a well dressed woman
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briggs, her assistant
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sir john, a responsible person
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jill. a companion to jack
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zenobia, a maid
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zobo, an assistant
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red, a drver
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<font color = "navy"> by nick nelson </font>
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<font color = "black"> part <font color = "red"> 00 </font> of ?</font>
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<font color = "navy">you wished to see me, mother?
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yes, i did.
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well, here i am.
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do you want to know why i wanted to see you?
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i am sure you will tell me.
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i am leaving you. doctor ellis tells me i have a few days at most.
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i am sorry to hear it. i thought that might be the reason. but i did not want to distress you by asking.
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that was very thoughtful. i have some instructions for you before i go.
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i thought you might.
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i have two things i wish you to do. first, i wish you to become president of the united states. if the united states becomes part of the world federation, i wish you to become the president, or whatever title is used - the head of that august body. do you understand?
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of course. and the second thing?
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listen closely. when you have achieved that goal, i wish you to use your power to ——-</font>
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<font color = "navy"> by nick nelson </font>
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<font color = "navy">the same dark night, or another one.
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a fourth car approaches from the west on an empty country road.
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a 1935 duesenberg.
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red is driving.
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white sits in the front passenger seat.
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blue and green sit in the back.
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they drive along.
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silence.
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it begins to rain.
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fog settles on the road.
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a hitchhiker appears.
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the auto passes the hitchhiker by.
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the auto proceeds down the road.
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the rain gets heavier.
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white, blue, and green begin to curse red for losing the way.
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things proceed in this way.
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the road gets narrower and the night gets darker.
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white says i think i see something ahead.
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blue replies - at last!
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suddenly a building appears - an abandoned barn?
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red says i think we should push on.
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and is shouted down and overruled by the three passengers.
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<font color = "navy">midnight.
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a 1927 pierce arrow approaches from the east on an otherwise empty road.
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lightning from an oncoming storm flashes in the west.
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harold brown is driving.
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his twin brother, walter wilson, sits beside him in the front passenger seat.
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aunt edith and cousin jeffrey sit in the back.
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aunt edith does not look pleased.
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cousin jeffrey chews a very long, but empty, cigarette holger, and looks bored.
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nobody speaks.
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aunt edith and cousin jeffrey not only do not speak but avoid looking at each other.
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they drive on.
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i thought this road had a turning, walter wilson finally breaks the silence,
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of course it has a turning, harold brown replies amiably, every road has a turninng.
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they drive on.
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so far as they can tell in the darkness, the landscape on either side of the road is empty.
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<font color = "navy"> by nick nelson </font>
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<font color = "navy">further down the same road.
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it is raining.
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another vehicle, a 1930 packard roadster approaches from the opposite direction.
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richardson oibinson is driving.
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arlene sits beside him, with a grim expression on her face.
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cousin waldo and marlowe, the butler, sit in the back, marlowe behind richardson, and waldo behind arlene.
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waldo finally opens his mouth.
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i tell you i saw something, he announces plaintively.
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none of the other three replies.
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they drive on.
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the wind and rain pick up.
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a slight figure appears by the roadside.
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to the consternation of aunt arlene and waldo, richardson stops the car.
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marlowe chuckles softly.
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that is her! waldo cries. that is her! the one i saw in the tree!
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that is she, waldo, arlene corrects him. learn to speak proper english, please.
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open the door, waldo, richardson says, and ask her if she wants a lift.
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but she will bring bad luck! waldo exclaims.
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and be soaking wet , arlene adds tartly.
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open the door, waldo, richardson repeats., and ask her if she wants a lift.
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waldo has trouble opening the passenger door, but finally manages to get it open.
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wind and rain blow into the car.
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*
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<font color = "navy"> by nick nelson </font>
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<font color = "black"> part <font color = "red"> 29 </font> of ?</font>
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<font color = "navy">a dark night.
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an empty road.
a five year old black toyota.
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briggs is driving. he needs a shave.
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constance johnson, stylish as ever, sits beside him in the front passenger seat.
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jack and jill sit quietly in the back.
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they drive along.
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silence.
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it is raining.
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<p>
a hitchhiker appears.
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briggs passes the hitchhiker by.
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none of the three passengers comments on the hitchhiker or the fact that briggs passes him by.
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the toyota proceeds down the road.
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the rain gets heavier.
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jack asks if briggs has lost his way.
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constance johnson and briggs both assure him that they are on the right road.
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how can you tell if you can’t see it?
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i can see it, says briggs.
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and there is no other road, constance adds.
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the road gets narrower and the night gets darker
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jill says, i think i see something ahead.
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jack replies - at last!
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suddenly a building appears - an abandoned barn.
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briggs says, i think we should push on.
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no, constance replies quietly, i think we should stop a while
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they stop.
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<font color = "navy"> by nick nelson </font>
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<font color = "navy">constance johnson sat under her favorite tree.
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the sun was shining, and constance looked more aristocratic than ever.
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briggs approached, looking a little more disheveled than before..
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ah, there you are.
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where else would i be?
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we have new instructions.
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again.
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yes, again. this operation is being shut down, and we are to report to headquarters for our new assignment.
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is that not a bit abrupt?
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everything is abrupt.
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what about our two young proteges?
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i have an address where we can drop them off on our way to headquarters.
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is it out of the way?
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only a hour or two. if we don’t get lost.
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i hope we don’t get lost.
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i don’t see why we would.
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i am glad you are so confident. do you remember the last time?
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of course i remember the last time. how could i forget it?
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i suppose we might as we might as well get going then. have you informed the children?
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i thought you might prefer to do that.
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whatever, i will do it.</font>
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<font color = "navy">what do you think?
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it needs work.
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that is what they all say.
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it needs saying.
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should i go on?
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no, i will take it from here.
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i did what you told me. i used all those words.
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you need to do more.
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give me some more words.
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later. i will take it from here.
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is there any end in sight?
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i will let you know.
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when?
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later.</font>
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<font color = "navy">then the newest member of the council rose and made a sensational announcement.
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things suddenly took a subversive turn.
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the newest member was a contemplative young person of a beneficent disposition who had no thought of deliberately promoting apocalyptic notions.
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but in the seething tinderbox of the kaleidoscopic modern world, the most judicious statement could be construed as inflammatory.
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the name of the contemplative young person was phil graves.
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phil had an exhaustive upbringing which kept the student under strict surveillance and precluded gregarious happenstance .
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phil had many teachers, each one more fulminating than the last.
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but the curricula were lilliputian.
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phil’s selection to the council at such a tender age raised eyebrows all over the world.
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the initial reaction was less than magnanimous, somewhat delimiting in fact.
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but as nothing compared to the firestorm that exploded at phil’s tentative speech - what phil construed as a tentative speech - merely putting a toe in the water, to use a hoary old fashioned expression which phil thought would not hurt a fly or raise the dead.</font>
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<font color = "navy"> by nick nelson </font>
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<font color = "navy">i am sorry about your loss, joe.
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my what?
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i am sorry the old lady is dead.
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i am sorry too. i liked her a lot.
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was there any kind of a funeral service? i am sorry i missed it.
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no, i just chucked her the swamp, like she always told me to.
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i see. i don’t know what the board of health might think, but i suppose what they don’t know won’t hurt them.
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i took her out a ways. she always wanted big al to have her, cause they went back a ways.
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yes, they must have been the two oldest inhabitants of the swamp.
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that is what she always said herself.
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well, joe, what are you going to do? i suppose you will stay on at the store with mr higgins. you are a big boy now, you should be able to take care of yourself. what exactly did you want to see me about?
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i wanted to ask you something.
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and what was that?
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i don’t know if you can help me, but i don’t know anybody else to ask.
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yes?
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the old lady before she died, she told me something she wanted me to do. i mean, she told me about it before, but just before she left, she sort of - what do you call it -?
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emphasized it?
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that’s it . empha -a - sized it.
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and what was it that she emphasied?
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she wanted me to tear down the world and build it up again.
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i see. rather a tall order.
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i wasn’t really all that sure what she meant by that.
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wiser men than you or i might well wonder what she meant.
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i would hate to disappoint her. i feel like she is still watching over me, and i would hate her to think i was not trying my best to please her.
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tear down the world and build it up again, eh? did she give you any hint as to how t she wanted to build it up again?
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well, sir, i think she tried to, but i am not sure i exactly understood her.
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i can believe that. no offense to you, joe, but her pronouncements could be a bit on the murky side. like all great prophets and philosophers.
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do you have a book you could give me, or maybe i could get one from the library.
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that is an excellent idea, joe. i think i know a couple of books you could ask miss carter at the library about. here, let me write the titles down for you. </font>
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<font color = "navy"> by nick nelson </font>
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<font color = "navy">so, what do you think of my story so far?
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i think it is pretty stupid and boring.
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would you like to continue it?
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you mean do i want to hear more of it?
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no, i mean do you want to keep writing it.
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you mean, write it instead of you?
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yes, exactly.
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why would i want to do that?
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you said you wanted to play a game.
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i did?
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i asked you if you wanted to play a game and you did not say you did not.
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so if i write some more of your story that is a game?
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yes.
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what are the rules? who will decide who wins?
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we will go back and forth and when we are finished we will ask the impeccably dressed miss johnson to decide whose contributions are the best.
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that sounds dumb, besides, she will favor you because you are a girl.
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you are just afraid i will beat you.
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i am not.
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all right then, play up and play the game, just like in the old days when men were men.
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all right, but i still think it is dumb.
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look here, i will give you a start. here is a list of thirteen words. you can use any or all of them in your story.
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and what might they be?
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they are apocalyptic beneficent contemplative delimiting exhaustive fulminating gregarious happenstance
inflammatory judicious kaleidoscopic lilliputian and magnanimous.
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those are big words.
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they are meant to be. what is the matter, do you not know what they mean?
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i know what they mean!
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then use them. and if you do, i have thirteen more just as big where those came from.</font>
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<font color = "navy"> by nick nelson </font>
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<font color = "navy">once upon a time there was a beautiful young person.
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they lived in a country under an authoritarian regime.
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the ruler was a bad person.
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the young person thought they were deserving of a better fate.
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and dreamed of an extraordinary escape.
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but fascist guards were everywhere, patrolling the border.
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the people yearned for freedom.
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but the fascists had a veritable genius for oppression
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and good people were cast into deep dungeons to rot.
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the beautiful young person resolved to write a groundbreaking manifesto.
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that would express everything that was human in the world.
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and annihilate all hypocrisy.
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and free the indigenous soul of the universe.
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*
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hearing of this from their spies who were everywhere, the ruler summoned his imperialist council.
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it is important to note that the ruler and his fascist dogs lived in constant fear of an uprising by the people.
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but as yet, no meaningful opposition had arisen.
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the imperialist council indulged in meaningless palaver before they were silenced by the ruler.
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before his ascension to power, the ruler had led a mediocre existence.
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but he regarded his rise as entirely natural and right.
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it was just a normal turn of events.
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power flowed like a river to those who deserved it.
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and privilege followed like a well trained dog.
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everything was reduced to obedience.
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the world itself is reactionary - does it not spin? the ruler enquired with a smile beneath his neat little mustache.
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then the newest member of the council rose and made a sensational announcement.
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things suddenly took a subversive turn. </font>
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<font color = "navy"> by nick nelson </font>
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<font color = "navy">hello.
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hello.
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why don’t you look at me when you say hello?
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i would rather look out the window,
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why is that?
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because looking out the window at the sky and the grass and the trees reminds of the good times i used to have with bucky, my only true friend and the only creature who understands me.
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do you have to spend every waking hour with bucky? i was given to understand that he is still your friend, they just want me to be your friend too.
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a bird just settled on the branch of the tree. how i wish i could be as free as it!
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you are being trained to rule the world, if all goes as planned, the day will come when you can delegate all your authority to underlings, human, animal, or machine, and sit and look at the birds ib the trees all day.
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i can hrdly wait.
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meanwhile, would you like to play a game?
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jack sighed. what game?
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what game would you like?
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let us see who can stand on one leg the longest.
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that does not sound like much of a game for the future ruler of the world. i have written a story. would you like to hear it?
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if you insist. as the future ruler of the world i must learn to be gracious, and i suppose this is as good a way as any to start.
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thank you. jill reached into the large pink handbag stting on the floor beside her chair and took out a black and white covered ruled notebook.
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outside, the sun cintinued to shine, but the bird in the tree had flown away.</font>
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<font color = "navy"> by nick nelson </font>
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<font color = "navy">we have decided to get you a new friend.
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i already have a friend, bucky.
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we mean a friend who is not a dog.
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but he is my friend.
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he can still be your friend. because we get you a new friend it does not mean you can not have a second one.
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if you say so.
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there are many people in the world, and some of them have as many as four or five friends, what do you think of that?
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it seems like a lot.
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we are bringing you up to rule the world. when you rule the world billions of people will think you are their friend.
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but i will not really be their friend, will i?
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yes, you will, sort of.
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will i have to say hello to them every day? and ask them how they are feeling?
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you can say hello to them, all at once. as for how they are feeling, they can write to you, and zobo will answer them on your behalf. we have been through all this before.
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yes, of course. but my brain is slow, and i have a hard time remembering things.
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well, back to the subject at hand. your new friend will arrive tomorrow.
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what is his name?
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it is a her. her name is jill. you will like her.
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how do you know? she is not here yet.
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we hope that you will like her. you can prepare yourself for her arrival.
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you mean get a room ready for her?
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no, zenobia will do that. i meant, prepare yourself in your head for her arrival.
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my head is already is already full.
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i am sorry to hear that. why don’t you go lie down and take a nap?
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i can lie down here and take a nap.
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of course. but it might rain.
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then you can pick me up and carry me inside.
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<font color = "navy"> by nick nelson </font>
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<font color = "navy">a well dressed aristocratic looking woman, and a well dressed not quite so aristocratic looking man, were sitting on a shady verandah watching an ordinary looking little boy play with a sluggish dog on a wide green lawn that sloped down to a still pond.
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a clear blue sky surveyed the primal scene.
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he looks a big sluggish, don’t you think? the man asked.
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the boy, or the dog?
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the boy, of course. we are not training the dog to grow up to rule the world.
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maybe we should get a new dog.
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or a new boy.
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it is a bit late for that, isn’t it?
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not so late as all that.
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we can discuss it with sir john when he comes around.
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i think i would rather not. forget i brought the subject up.
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if you wish.
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the woman stood up and walked up to the railing of the verandah.
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jack, she called.
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<font color = "navy"> by nick nelson </font>
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<font color = "navy">the tree did not like the gorilla or the hippo.
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it thought they were mean to the bear.
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the tree stopped growing bananas and started growing kumquats.
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the gorilla and the hippo went on down the road
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i told you something like this would happen, the cat said to the bear and the dog.
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there is no i in tree, the bear said.
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or in kumquat, the bear added.
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just then the sun went down and rain fell on the tree and on the ground.
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a lion howled in the jungle.
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and a moose bellowed in the woods.
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a nightingale flew into the tree and started singing.
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an owl hooted in the darkness.
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with the lion’s roaring, the moose’ s bellowing, the nightingale’s singing, and the owl’s hooting, the cat, the bear and the dog could not hear themselves think, and they parted ways with the tree and with each other.
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the cat took the high road and met a panther, whom he had known under the sign of saturn.
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the dog found a quiet spot under a rosebush and went to sleep.
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the bear took the low road and met a turtle.
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the turtle understood everything, and took the long view.
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the walrus and the young king waited for them all at the seashore, expecting the zookeeper to arrive with the new day.
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and the zookeeper did, in his brand new airplane filled with apple pies and blackberry crumpets.
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on this happy note, the book ended.
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joe was pleased with himself for having learned to read, and the librarian told him he could keep the book and take it home with him.</font>
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<font color = "navy"> by nick nelson </font>
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<font color = "navy">the cat, the dog, and the bear looked up at the apple.
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they all wanted to eat it.
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the elephant came along,
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it wanted to eat the apple too, so it just did, with one gulp.
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the cat, the dog, and the bear waited for another apple to grow.
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when the new apple finally grew, the fox came along.
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climb the tree, the fox said to the cat, and knock the apple down so we can all have a bite.
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the cat climbed the tree and knocked the apple down to the ground.
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the fox grabbed the apple and ran away into the woods.
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the dog ran after it but could not catch it and it disappeared into the undergrowth.
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the dog returned to the tree.
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the tree had stopped growing apples and grown a banana instead.
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the cat, the dog, and the bear were sad because they liked apples better than bananas.
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the cat and the dog went away but the bear decided to give the banana a chance.
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the bear waited for the banana to fall off the tree.
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the gorilla and the hippo came along.
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the gorilla liked bananas.
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it climbed the tree and ate the banana.
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i should have though of that, the bear said.
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the gorilla and the hippo laughed at the bear.
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i need some new friends, the bear said.</font>
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<font color = "navy"> by nick nelson </font>
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<font color = "navy">when he got to town, joe found the library without any problem, and walked up its broad steps and went inside.
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there were three desks just inside the front door. they were occupied by the fattest woman joe had ever seen, the skinniest woman he had ever seen, and the most ordinary looking woman he had ever seen.
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there were no signs or name tags on any of the desks, not that joe could have read them.
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he decided to approach the ordinary looking woman.
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hello, joe addressed her.
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hello, young man, what can i do for you?
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i want to learn how to read.
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don’t you go to school?
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no.
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why not? they could teach you to read. and a few other things besides.
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i don’t want to.
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why not?
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they will not teach me what i need or what i want to know,
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well, that is a pretty good answer, and one i do not hear every day, the ordinary looking woman laughed. what is your name, by the way?
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my name is not by the way, it is joe.
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do you have a last name?
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no.
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your last name is no, or, no , you do not have a last name?
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my name is joe.
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all right, joe it is.
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not joe it is, joe.
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got it, and you want to learn to read?
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yes.
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well, we have two options. you can enroll in the weekly reading class, which convenes every tuesday here at ten in the morning. it is frequented mostly by smelly old bums, many of whom like to talk a lot and interrupt and argue with the teacher, and some of whom might want to take you home and barbecue you.
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what is the other option? joe asked.
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i can give you a little book that you might be able to teach yourself with.
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i will try that.
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the woman reached under her desk and produced a little book.
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the book had no lettering on its cover. the cover did have a picture of a cat, a bear, and a dog, all three of whom were looking up at a tree with a bright red apple on it.</font>
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<font color = "navy"> by nick nelson </font>
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<font color = "navy">joe was a serious child, who believed what he was told, who tried to accommodate people , and who was not inclined to fuss and fight and argue about anything.
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he was raised in the canebrake by mrs murphy lee, a conjure woman with many stories to tell about herself, some of which might have been greeted by skepticism or even mockery by those who considered themselves enlightened or sophisticated in the ways of the world.
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mrs murphy lee had a few ragged looking leather bound books which she read or consulted, especialy on rainy days.
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some of the books had pictures which joe liked to look at, but he did not understand the words.
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joe would have liked to learn to read, but he did not want to read so badly that he wanted to go to school.
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one rainy day joe asked mrs murphy lee if she would teach him to read.
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i ain’t got time for that, mrs murphy lee replied.
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do you know somebody who does?
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the school.
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i don’t want to go to school.
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mrs murphy lee considered this. try the library, she said.
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will somebody at the library teach me to read?
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i don’t know about that. they might give you some little book where you could teach yourself.
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that seemed to be the best answer he could get, so the next day that it did not rain, joe took to the highway and walked the ten miles into town.
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as the highway was mostly paved, ir was easy walking for joe, who spent long hours walking and scrambling through the swamp and the canebrake.</font>
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<font color = "navy">waldo felt ready to collapse when he reached the top of the staircase.
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instead of turning left toward the blue library, he turned right toward the end of the hallway , thinking to open the window there for a breath of fresh air.
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but when he reached the end of the hallway he realized that the storm outside was raging so fiercely that it was best not to open the window, lest he not be able to close it again.
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with a sigh, he looked out at the bending trees and waving branches.
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was that a face he saw in the trees?
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waldo was familiar with seeing faces in unexpected places, but he had not had a drink in three days.
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nerves, he thought, nerves, and turned quickly away from the window lest he see the face, or another face, or something else.
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his phone vibrated in his pocket again. he hoped it was only harold being impatient.
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he remembered harold as being the impatient sort.
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or was that roger? or young joseph? (as distinguished from old joseph and cousin joseph.). he was always getting them mixed up.
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he was always getting everything and everybody mixed up.
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how he hated the modern world.
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he passed the head of the staircase and entered the open door to the blue library.</font>
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<font color = "navy"> by nick nelson </font>
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<font color = "navy">despite being the friendliest person in the world, and having one of the best memories for names and faces, harold had never enjoyed fame or fortune or even modest success in life.
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but he never gave up, and kept on keeping on, spreading sunshine wherever he went.
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harold and his identical twin had been born under a bad sign, and separated at birth, just like in the old days.
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harold was brought up by mrs claudette brown - which was why he was called harold brown - and her husband bradley brown, who did not have much to say for himself.
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claudette baked the best walnut brownies in the world, and when she was not baking her brownies or singing in the church choir or practicing singing in the church choir, enjoyed speculating on the mystery of harold’s birth.
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harold liked listening to claudette’s speculations on the subject of his birth, and developed many suppositions of his own on the subject, each one of which might have been considered more outlandish than the last, by anyone who might have happened to pay attention to them.
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when he reached the age of five years, harold went to school, not to the large public school filled with violent and unruly children, but to a small church school run with an iron hand and no velvet glove by mrs melody mason, the wife of the reverend matthew mason.
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mrs melody mason was the best friend of mrs claudette brown. mrs mason was amused by harold’s stories. and he became her pet.
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harold was not kindly taken to by many of his fellow students, but a few of them found him amusing.and often laughed both with and at him.
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harold’s best friend and supporter was clyde hooper, a clumsy boy who was big for his age, and somewhat intimidating to the other students, despite his slow and easygoing manner, which he had inherited from a long line of easygoing folks, from both his father and his mother.
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harold’s most vocal adversary was daisy dempster, who took exception to harold’s varying accounts of his life and ancestry.
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harold is a liar! daisy would protest vociferously to both children and adults. he lies his stupid head off all day every day!
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harold has imagination, mrs mason would reply placidly but with a twinkle in her eye.
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so what? they are still lies, daisy would insist defiantly.
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how can you tell? clyde hooper would ask.
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perhaps the world is divided into harolds, daisys, mrs masons, and clydes.</font>
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<font color = "navy">waldo gazed uncertainly at the antique phone outside the dining room. the caller i d did not show a name, only a number he did not recognize.
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he picked up the receiver.
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waldo here.
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waldo! this is harold brown. how are you , old fellow?
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very well, harold. if you have any other questions, please call me back on my private and hopefully secure line - and waldo slowly repeated the number.
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would you like me to repeat that?
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of course not, as you know i have a great memory for numbers, as i have for names, people, places, and events, even so-called trivial ones.
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of course, how could i forget? waldo hung up the receiver with a slightly trembling hand.
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harold brown! how many years had it been?
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with a barely audible sigh, waldo decided to repair to the blue library to await harold’s call.
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but he had not gone three steps down the hall toward the great spiral staircase when the phone in his pocket vibrated.
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marlowe, the butler, watched waldo carefully to make sure he did not trip on the steps of the staircase. he considered asking him if he needed assistance but decided against it.
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when waldo was two thirds of the way up the staircase, marlowe took his own phone out of his pocket.</font>
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<font color = "navy">his train was waiting for walter when he reached the safety of the platform.
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he quickly found an empty compartment and settled into it.
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he realized that in his haste to escape harold he had left his newspaper behind.
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how annoying! he would just have to open his battered brown briefcase and read some of the reports from his suffering underlings that he had not been able to peruse the night before.
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but as he was reaching into the briefcase the door to the compartment opened snd another person entered, one that walter thought he recognized.
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a gentleman of advanced middle age, with a round bushy white beard, and wearing a defiantly old fashioned tweed suit.
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he was none other, walter realized, than mr moses amenhotep, a lion of the financial world.
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mr amenhotep glared casually at walter. you seem at a bit of a loss, sir, he addressed walter. would you like to read my newspaper? i am quite finished with it.
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thank you, sir, that is very kind of you, water replied, and accepted the newspaper, which was the gazette, and not the times, which he had left behind in the kiosk. he did not indicate that he recognized mr amenhotep.
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what do you think of that, eh? mr amenhotep asked walter, apparently referring to the headline of the gazette. damned popinjay, upsetting the equilibrium men like myself have spent years establishing.
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the headline read -
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<center><b>social butterfly adventurer foments rebellion in asia</b></center>
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below was a photo of richardson robinson, taken when he was a freshman at h_________, and describing in suitably ironic terms his self proclaimed mission to rescue asia from europe and america,
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very strange, walter replied noncommitttaly to mr amenhotep, he did not mention that he , walter, was a partner in the law form that had represented the robinson family for over a century. </font>
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<font color = "navy">my train is not due for anther fifteen minutes, harold said, as walter rose from his seat, i am sorry that we will not have time to become better acquainted.
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up to this point, harold and walter had conversed with walter seated at the little table, and harold behind him, staring at the back of walter’s head.
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now walter turned to make his way past harold to the eastbound platform, and they came face to face.
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and realized that they were identical twins.
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my brother! he cried. my long lost brother!
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i am not the least bit lost, walter replied, recovering his composure after a tenth of a second of hesitation. now if you will excuse me, i have a train to catch.
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he brushed past harold and, clutching his battered brown briefcase, headed out the door of the kiosk toward the platforms.
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harold had been in many such situations before and was in no wise at a loss. he quickly took his phone out of his pocket and took a picture of the back of walter’s retreating head.
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then he calmly took a plastic bag out of his own traveling case and put the newspaper, which walter had left behind, into it, and put the plastic bag into the traveling case.
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why does everything have to be so complicated, harold said out loud as he made his own way out of the kiosk. why can’t everybody just get along?
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<font color = "navy"> by nick nelson </font>
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<font color = "navy">harold brown and walter wilson were identical twins.
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but they did not have much in common.
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they met by chance one night at a small railroad station on the outskirts of the great city.
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the station had a small kiosk where coffee and donuts and other small pastries, and newspapers and magazines, could be purchased. but unlike some other stations on the line, no chewing gum or hard candies or cough drops were available.
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there was one small table with two chairs and walter was seated at it, reading a newspaper he had purchased at the kiosk, and sipping an anonymous beverage in a bottle he had not purchased there but produced from a battered brown briefcase that sat at his feet, which were encased in red running shoes with blue laces.
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the red running shoes were the only distinctive features of walter’s dress, or of his person.
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harold was the friendliest person in the world, and started conversations almost every day with complete strangers, impervious to any indifference or insults he might encounter, and delighting in regaling them with the most intimate details of his mind and his personal behavior.
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now harold stood behind walter wilson, reading walter’s newspaper over his shoulder.
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the front page of the newspaper had a headline declaring the outbreak of war between -
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do you mind, walter asked harold in his curiously booming voice, standing back a little way? you are standing in the light.
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oh but the light, such as it is, is directly overhead, harold replied innocently. i fail to see how i am impeding it in any way.
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well, since you are not perspicacious enough to take a broad hint, i will be blunt. i do not care for the proximity of your presence, walter thundered.
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but i was only curious as to the exact nature of the terrible tragedy unfolding on the other side of the globe, harold expostulated meekly.
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i believe the best way for you to satisfy your curiosity would be to purchase your own copy of this newspaper. they have to have a sufficient stack of them and to be in no danger of running out of them any time soon. if you are inconvenienced for funds, you might ask one of the other persons assembled here - not myself - to give you the necessary coinage. or, as a last resort, you might wait until the person at the counter has their back turned, and simply take one.
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all this walter delivered in a voice guaranteed to catch the attention of anyone within one hundred meters , including any dozers or sleepers.
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harold was in no wise nonplussed, and quite used to longer and louder and more threatening outbursts from persons he approached.
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come, sir, he continued affably, is it not a bit ridiculous and unseemly for us to bicker thus, when across the world our fellow humans are inexplicably blowing each other bits with flaming engines of steel -
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there is nothing inexplicable about it, walter responded in a somewhat more muted tone, it is what humans do. i bid you good day, sir, your company displeases me.
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a whistle announced the approach of a train.
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i wonder if that is our train, harold mused aloud..
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being in possession of a timetable, i know that it is my mine, walter replied, folding his newspaper.</font>
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