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Jan David Blais. Twentieth Century Limited Book One - Age of Heroes
PROLOGUE. Prologue
PART ONE. FAITH AND WORKS. 1. Patriotism: An End, A Beginning
2. The Home Front
3. First Impressions Count
4. The Good Time That Was Had By All
5. A Nine-Year-Old Summer
6. Through A Stained Glass, Darkly
7. Loves Lost
8. Neon Interlude
9. Brave New World
10. Saturday’s Hero
11. From The Chrysalis, In A Manner Of Speaking
PART TWO. KNOWLEDGE. 12. Linden Lane
13. Spiritual Exercises
14. Family Circle
15. Lead Us, Lead Us Not
16. O Canada!
17. Digging In
18. Know Thyself..
19. ...Nothing in Excess
20. Ave Atque Vale
21. Young Man Gone West
22. Getting To Know You
23. Freedom Year
24. Fault Lines
25. Free Speech, Or So They Said
26. An Unnatural History Of The High Sierra
27. A Turn For The Worse
28. The Gathering Storm
29. Young Men, Old Men – Visions, Dreams
PART THREE. BLOOD AND STEEL. 30. Back To Basics
31. Of Arms And The Man
32. Dead Center
33. First Blood
34. Wars Within Wars Within Wars
35. Metal In Motion
36. Metal At Rest
37. Omelets And Eggshells
38. In My Delicate Condition
PART FOUR. STRIVINGS. 39. Breaking In
40. Immersed Again
41. Diane
42. Two Into One
43. Double Exposure
44. Aftershocks And Other Seismic Events
45. New Horizons
46. I Had This To Say About That
47. Things Come Together, Things Fly Apart
48. With Liberty And Justice For Some
49. King Oil
Отрывок из книги
SOMESVILLE, MT. DESERT ISLAND, MAINE. SEPTEMBER 2003. The old man replays the tape for what, the tenth time? The twentieth? Bright sky and desert plain, blue and beige, plumes of dense smoke in the distance. Pan left to a reporter holding a microphone. In khaki pants and open shirt, he is hatless in the brutal mid-day sun. As the camera closes in the viewer is drawn to the eyes, dark as the behind.
“To wrap up,” he is saying, “another insurgent attack. How many fill-ups did the desert take back today? How many SUVs will run dry? Not long ago George Bush assured us a rejuvenated Iraq would pay for this trillion-dollar adventure of his, but like many of his promises, this one’s fading fast and will be forgotten unless we ask the tough questions.” The reporter’s head and shoulders now fill the screen, a faint smile crossing the familiar face. “Rest assured, ladies and gentlemen, we will continue to ask them. Paul Bernard, ETVN News, reporting from the desert outside Basra, Iraq. So long for now.”
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“What’re you talking about?” I replied warily.
“You’re lying! Jim didn’t do anything like that!”
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