Thursday, February 4, 2010 - You could kill the dozen men, and there would be...
You could kill the dozen men, and there would be another dozen to replace them, and another and anotherOut of all the vast pressures and crosscurrents of history was evolving the archetype of twentieth-century manThe particular man who would direct it, make certain that "the natural role The techniques had outraced the psyche"The majority of men must be subservient to the machine and it's not a business they instinctively enjoy And in the marginal area, the gap, were the peculiar tensions that birthed the dream
Hearn flipped over the letter a little distastefully"Man had to destroy God in order to achieve Him, equal HimOr had Cummings said it? There were times when the demarcation between their minds was blurred for himCummings could have said itEffectively, it was Cummings's ideaHe folded the louis vuitton wallets letter and put it away again
Where did all this leave him? All right, just where? There had been a time, many times when it would have appealed, more than appealed, to whatever impulse there had been in him toto do what Cummings was capable of doingDivorced of all the environmental trappings, all the confusing and misleading attitudes he had absorbed, he was basically like CummingsWithout "the wife is a bitch" kind of urges, but even there, could he label it for certain? Cummings had been rightThey were both the same, and it had produced first the intimacy, the attraction they had felt toward each other, and then the hatred
It was between them still as far as he was concernedEvery time he saw Cummings, if even for an instant, there was the same clutch of fear and hatred inside him, the same prada bags sales painful evocation of that moment when he had stooped to pick up the cigaretteIt was still humiliating, still informativeHe had never realized the extent of his own vanity, the hatred it was capable of generating when woundedCertainly, he had never hated anyone the way Cummings affected him nowThe week he had spent in G-3 under Dalleson had been lived at half-throttle; he had absorbed the procedures, done his work automatically, and had smoldered inside with an almost unbearable frustrationLately, he had begun to step out; this afternoon he had been flip with Dalleson, and that was an indication of something else, something not so pleasingIf he remained here he was likely to dissipate himself in a series of insignificant rebellions that would end only in further humiliationThe thing to do was to fake fendi handbags move out, be transferred, but Cummings would not let himAnd the rage he had kept tightly throttled all week was surging againIf only he could go up to Cummings and ask for a front-line platoon, but that would be fatalCummings would give him anything but that
The phone rang, and Hearn picked it upThe voice at the other end spluttered at him"This is Paragon Red, negative report from 0030 to 0130 Hearn hung up, and stared at the message he had scribbled on a padIt was a completely automatic report which was phoned in every hour from every battalionOn an ordinary night fifty such reports would come inHe picked up his pencil, about to mark it in the Journal, when Dalleson stepped into the tentStacey, the clerk, who had been drowsing over his magazine, straightened upDalleson's hair had been been chanel cabas bag quickly combed, and his heavy face was reddened from sleep; he looked inquiringly about the tent, his eyes blinking from the light"Everything okay?" he askedHe realized suddenly that Dalleson had awakened worrying about the campaign and it amused him
"I heard the phone ringing," Dalleson said
"It was Paragon Red, negative report, that's all
"Did you record it yet?"
"No, sir
"Well, then do it, man
Hearn had recorded few reports in the Journal and he looked at the preceding one to check on the form
Dalleson walked toward him, and examined the Journal, fingering the spring clip on the beaverboard"Let's do it more neatly next time
He'd be damned if Dalleson would lecture him like a child"I'll do my best, Major," he murmured sarcastically
Dalleson ran his thick index finger under the rolex uk notation
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