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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:26 am
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    He became conscious abruptly that Gallagher and Goldstein were no longer talkingHe looked up, and saw nearly all the men in the boat standing on their cots or chinning themselves on the starboard bulkhead"What're they lookin' at?" Gallagher asked
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    2:15 am
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    Minetta continued talking eagerly"Listen, I know you don't believe me, but you ever get to New York and look me up, I'll show you some gucci women watch of the family medalsMy father's always taking them out to show usMy aching back, he's got a whole boxful of them
    Croft passed by them, and called over his shoulder"All right, troopers, let's quit fuggin the dog
    Polack sighed and got to his feet"I'll tell you what, women rolex watches there ain't no future in thisWhat's it to Croft if we take it easy?"
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    "You think I'm scared of him?" Minetta said"Listen, I been in the Golden Gloves, I ain't afraid of any of these guys Polack's grin irritated him
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    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    2:26 am
    @@@@@A gleaming white canvas walkway led from
    @@@@@A gleaming white canvas
    walkway led from the scoured white marble carriage block to the
    portico's stepsOver walkway and block a white canvas awning had
    been
    erected"Just think," she said, marvelling, "you could go from your
    carriage to the Ball in the pouring rain and not a drop of water
    would touch you"That's the idea," Rhett agreed, "but it's never been
    testedIt never rains on the night of the Saint Cecilia
    "Rhett!" Eleanor Butler was genuinely shockedScarlett smiled at
    Rhett, pleased that he could make fun of something that he took as
    seriously as this ballHe'd told her all about it, how many years and
    years it had been going on-everything in Charleston seemed to have
    been
    around for at least a hundred years-how it was completely run by
    men
    Only men could be members of the Society"Step down, Scarlett,"
    said
    Rhett, "you should feel right at home hereThis building is the
    Hibernian HallInside you'll see a plaque with the harp of Ireland
    in best gold paint
    Don't be rude," scolded his motherScarlett stepped out with her
    pugnacious chin-so like her Irish father's-held highWhat were those
    Yankee soldiers doing? Scarlett's throat contracted with momentary
    fearWere they planning to cause trouble because they'd been beaten
    by the ladies before? Then she saw the crowds behind them, eager
    faces
    bobbing from side to side in an effort to see the figures emerging from
    the carriagesWhy, the Yankees are holding people back to make a
    path
    for us! Just like servants, like the torch boys or the footmenWhy don't they just give up and go away? Nobody
    pays them any mind anyhowShe looked over the heads of the
    soldiers
    and smiled brilliantly at the staring crowds before she stepped down
    from the carriage blockIf only she could have had a new gown
    instead
    of this tired old thing
    She'd just have to make the best of itShe took three steps forward,
    then expertly cast the gown's train from across her arm to fall behind
    herIt spread out on the white walkway, untouched by dust, to sweep
    regally behind her as she promenaded into The Ball of the Season
    She
    paused in the entrance hall, waiting for the othersHer eyes were
    drawn upward, following the graceful arc of the staircase to the second
    floor's wide landing and the glittering candlelit crystal chandelier
    suspended over the soaring open spac
    2:15 am
    @@@@@ Scarlett closed her eyes and inhaled the
    @@@@@ Scarlett closed her eyes and inhaled the faint
    whisper of lemon verbenaEverything was going to be all rightMiss
    Eleanor loved her, she'd make Rhett come home, and they'd all live
    happily together forever and everScarlett half-dozed in the
    deep-cushioned chair, lulled by the soft reminiscences of a gentler
    timeWhen the disturbance erupted in the hall beyond the door, she
    was jerked back to confused consciousnessFor a moment she didn't
    know where she was or how she had gotten there, and she blinked,
    bleary-eyed, at the man in the doorwayRhett? No, it couldn't be
    Rhett, not unless he'd shaved off hismustacheThe big man who
    wasn't
    Rhett stepped unevenly across the doorsill"I came to meet my
    sister,"
    he saidThe words slurred togetherMargaret Butler ran towards
    Eleanor"I tried to stop him," she cried, "but he was in one of those
    moods-I couldn't get him to listen, Miss Eleanor"Hush, Margaret," she said with quiet urgency"Ross, I'm waiting
    for a proper greeting Her voice was unusually loud, the words very
    distinctScarlett's mind was clear nowSo this was Rhett's
    brother
    And drunk, too, by the look of himWell, she'd seen drunk men
    before,
    they were no special noveltyShe stood, smiled at Ross, her dimple
    flickering"I declare, Miss Eleanor, how could one lady be so lucky
    as to have two sons, each one handsomer than the other? Rhett
    never
    told me he had such a good-looking brother!"
    Ross staggered towards herHis eyes raked her body, then fastened
    on
    her tousled curls and rouged faceHe leered rather than smiled
    "So this is Scarlett," he said thickly"I might have known Rhett would
    end up with a fancy piece like h
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    2:27 am
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    “Do as I say,” ordered the Soviet“Admit no one, stay away from the windows and take all
    precautionsWhat do you mean, the windows? He’ll need time to find out where we are to
    question the maids, the stewards
    “Forgive me, old friend,” interrupted Krupkin, “but an angelic priest inquiring at the desk about
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    387
    “Be careful
    Conklin did not hear the Soviet’s final admonitionInstead, he swiftly replaced the telephone
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    to find rolex watches for women Jason, fully dressed, standing in front of a window in the ornate Victorian sitting room
    “That had to be Krupkin,” said BourneGet away from the window
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    “You’ll be late for early Mass,” he said
    The woman spun around, the key flying into the street, her black cloth snapping in the turn as
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    276
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    “I know you!” cried BourneYou
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
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    after breaking them so spectacularly"Thirty paintings
    since last November? No, it's even less time than
    that, because you didn't start painting right
    away
    "Of course not, I had to get some art supplies
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    608
    "If thirty paintings in three months is what
    almost getting crushed to death does," she said
    when she could talk again, "maybe I ought to find
    me a crane
    "You wouldn't want to," I said I
    got up, went to the window, and looked down on
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    here
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    below might have been airlifted in from New
    OrleansA woman strolled up the
    sidewalk eating what looked like a baguette, the
    hem of her red skirt swirlingSomewhere someone
    was playing a twelve-bar guitar blues, every note
    ringing clear"Tell me something, Edgar - when
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    I shook my head
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    "That just proves that fame's a fleeting thing
    During the Roaring Twenties, Davis was a god down
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    not too distant, a church-bell marked the hour of
    two
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    2:15 am
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    v
    Jack showed up the next day with a borrowed van
    and plenty of soft cloth in which to wrap my
    canvasesI told him I'd made a friend from the
    big house down the beach, and that he'd be going
    with us"No problem," Jack said cheerfully,
    climbing the stairs to Little Pink and trundling a
    hand-dolly along behind him"There's plenty of
    room in the - whoa!" He had stopped at the head of
    the stairs
    "Are these ones new? They must be Nannuzzi from the Scoto had asked to see
    half a dozen pictures, no more than ten, so I'd
    split the difference and set out eightFour were
    the ones that had impressed Wireman the night
    before"What do you think?"
    "Dude, these are awesome!"
    305
    It was hard to doubt his sincerity; he'd never
    called me dude beforeI mounted a couple more
    steps and then poked his bluejeaned butt with the
    tip of my crutch
    He stepped aside, pulling the dolly with him, so I
    could climb the rest of the way up to Little Pink
    He was still staring at the pictures
    "Jack, is this guy at the Scoto really okay? Do
    you know?"
    "My Mom says he is, and that's good enough for
    me Meaning, I think, that it should be good
    enough for me, tooI guessed it would have to be
    "She didn't tell me anything about the other
    partners - I think there are two more - but she
    says Mr
    Jack had called in a favor for me
    "And if he doesn't like these," Jack finished,
    "he's wack
    "You think so, huh?"
    He nodded
    From downstairs, Wireman called cheerfully:
    "Knock-knock! I'm here for the field tripAre we
    still going? Who's got my name-tag? Was I supposed
    to pack a lunch?"
    306
    vi
    I had pictured a bald, skinny, professorial man
    with blazing brown eyes - an Italian Ben Kingsley
    - but Dario Nannuzzi turned out to be fortyish,
    plump, courtly, and possessed of a full head of
    hairI was close on the eyes, thoughThey didn't
    miss a trickI saw them widen once - slightly but
    perceptibly - when Wireman carefully unwrapped the
    last painting I'd brought, Roses Grow from Shells
    The pictures were lined up against the back wall
    of the gallery, which was currently devoted mostly
    to photographs by Stephanie Shachat and oils by
    William Berra
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    2:26 am
    @@@@@ Even when he was flat broke after a major
    @@@@@ Even when he was flat broke after a major financial setback, he continued to refer to himself as a rich manHe would cover himself by saying, "There is a difference between being poor and being broke- Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal
    My poor dad would also say, "I'm not interested in money," or "Money doesn't matter My rich dad always said, "Money is power
    The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy to be aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myselfI noticed that my poor dad was poor not because of the amount of money he earned, which was significant, but
    because of his thoughts and actionsAs a young boy, having two fathers, I became acutely aware of being careful which thoughts I chose to adopt as my ownWhom should I listen to-my rich dad or my poor dad?
    Although both men had tremendous respect for education and learning, they disagreed in what they thought was important to learnOne wanted me to study hard, earn a degree and get a good job to work for moneyHe wanted me to study to become a professional, an attorney or an accountant or to go to business school for my MBAThe other encouraged me to study to be rich, to understand how money works and to learn how to have it work for me"I don't work for money!" were words he would repeat over and over, "Money works for me!"
    At the age of 9, I decided to listen to and learn from my rich dad about moneyIn doing so, I chose not to listen to my poor dad, even though he was the one with all the college degrees

    A Lesson From Robert Frost

    Robert Frost is my favourite poetAlthough I love many of his poems, my favorite is The Road Not TakenI use its lesson almost daily:

    The Road Not Taken

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
    Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
    And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden blackOh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads onto way, I doubted if I should ever come back
    I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence; Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference
    Robert Frost(1916)

    And that made all the difference
    Over the years, I have often reflected upon Robert Frost's poemChoosing not to listen to my highly educated dad's advice and attitude about money was a painful decision, but it was a decision that shaped the rest of my life
    Once I made up my mind whom to listen to, my education about money beganMy rich dad taught me over a period of 30 years, until I was age 39He stopped once he realized that I knew and fully understood what he had been trying to drum into my often thick s
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    @@@@@I rolled up into his seat while he took mine
    “Seat belt,” I ordered terselyIt was too dark to see it, but his new soft pink scar would be visible from this
    angle
    I strapped my seat belt on and then leaned my head back
    Lying with my body, that was the keyIt was simply a matter of the right movementsLike the actors on the TV program, only better
    “Help me, Mel,” I murmured
    I can't help you be a better soul, WandaI only had to be myselfI wouldn't have to act that part
    I let my eyelids droop, let my body sag against the seat
    My mouth turned down into a sheepish grimace
    The Seekers' car did not park behind us, the way I could feel Mel expectedIt stopped across
    the road, on the shoulder, facing the wrong way for that lane's traffic flowA dazzling light
    exploded through the window of the other carI blinked into it, raising my hand to shade my
    face with deliberate slownessFaintly, past the glare of the spotlight, I saw the gleam of my eyes
    bounce against the road as I looked downOne set of footsteps made a pattern of low thuds as someone crossed the
    pavementThere was no sound of dirt or rocks, so the Seeker had emerged from the passenger
    sideTwo of them, at least, but only one coming to interrogate meThis was a good sign, a sign
    of comfort and confidence
    My glowing eyes were a talismanA compass that could not fail–like the North Star,
    undoubtable
    Lying with my body wasnot the k
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    2:26 am
    @@@@@ But now in the great open quiet of the
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    But now in the great open quiet of the hills they felt a constraint and fear even through their fatigueThe hills stared down on them when they were in a valley, and in crossing a ridge-line the contrast rendered them naked, as though they could be seen for milesThe country was beautiful; the hills were tinted a canary yellow, and spread about them in an unending run of broad smooth curves, but the men did not appreciate the beautyThey had the isolation, the insignificance of insects traversing an endless beach
    They walked for a mile across a deep flat valley, and the sun blazed on themThe kunai grass grew to terrifying heightsOn the plain each blade of grass was an inch wide and many feet highSometimes they would trudge for a hundred yards through grass that was over their headsIt roused a new kind of terror in them, drove them on more quickly than was bearableThey felt as though they blundered through a forest, but the forest was not solidIt weaved and swayed, rustled against their limbs, was soft and yielding, and therefore nauseousThey were afraid to let the man in front move too far away, for they could not see more than two or three yards, and so they dogged at each other's heels, the grass whipping nastily into their facesEvery now and then a cloud of gnats would be disturbed and flicker tantalizingly about them, goading their flash with a dozen tiny bitesThere were many spiders in the field, and the webs kept trickling across their faces and hands, lashing them forward in a minor frenzyPollen and bits of grass teased their exposed skin
    Martinez led the way like an arrow shot across the fieldMost of the time the grass was too tall for him to see, but he directed himself by the sun, never pausing for a momentIt took them only twenty minutes to cross the valley, and then after a short break they trudged over the hills againHere, the tall grass was welcome, for they grasped tufts of it to aid their ascent, and slowed their fall by clutching it on the downslopes of the hillsThe sun continued to beat on them
    Their first fear of being observed by enemy troops had ebbed in the physical demands of the march, but a new and subtler terror began to obsess themThe land extended so far, was so completely silent, that they became acutely conscious of its unexplored weight, its somnolent brooding resistanceThey remembered a rumor that natives had once lived in this portion of the island, and had died decades ago in a plague of scrub typhus, the survivors moving to another islandUntil now they had never thought about the natives except to miss their labor, but in the vast buzzing silence of the sun and the hills the men forced themselves onward in nervous spasms, halting and starting, their limbs quivering with exertionMartinez led them at a cruel pace as if pursue
    2:15 am
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    Nice place, GermantownWe have to visit the Judds there, Ina
    Any time, I'll show you the sights, MrThere is silence, and they eat self-conscious, muting the noise of their tablewareLovely view out there, Mrs
    It's the only place you can get away from the heat in Chicago, Ina saysWe're so backward to New York, you think they would have had a roof garden on a hotel here before thisI can't wait until we get out to CharlevoixPronounced: Choliveoil
    Michigan, that's a green state, Bill Hearn saysThere is silence again, and MrsJudd turns to Robert Hearn and says, you're such a big boy for twelve, Bobby, I thought you were a little more
    No, ma'am, only twelveHe ducks his head uncomfortably as the waiter places the roast duck before him
    Don't mind Bobby, he's just kind of shy, Bill Hearn booms, he certainly ain't a chip off my old blockPushing his scant black hair over the bald spot on his head, his little red nose a button in the round sweating jowls of his face
    When we were out to Hollywood, MrsHearn says, we got taken over the Paramount lot by some assistant director fellow, Jew, but he was sort of niceHe was telling us all about the stars
    Is it true Mona Vaginus is a tramp? Mrs
    (Looking at Bobby, and whispering Oh, an awful tramp, the things she's supposed to doBut she hasn't got much of a future anyway now that those talkie pictures are the only ones being made
    This ain't the place to talk business, MrJudd of Budd (Hearn laughs), I guess you hear that all the time, Judd of Budd, but the truth is you're in business to do business, and a curiosity enough, I'm out for the same thing, so it's just a case of our compromising on the price, but there's one thing this Thompson machine is on the way out and if the reformers come in it's going to be a case of playing ball with 'em, or else havin' to put perfume in the factory toilet bowls and such stuff for all the Polack element that don't know a washcloth from their underwear, so I gotta be careful about my commitments
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    2:26 am
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    @@@@@She
    also
    remembered that Scarlett had not told them she was going out that
    morning, nor where she had beenWhen Scarlett reported that she'd
    been to the Cathedral, Pauline put her finger to her lipsPere, she
    said, was unfortunately extremely opposed to Roman CatholicismIt
    had
    something to do with French history, she wasn't sure what, but he got
    very angry about the ChurchThat was the reason she and Eulalie
    always left Charleston after Mass to come to Savannah and left
    Savannah
    on Saturday to return to CharlestonThis year there was a particular
    difficulty; because Easter was so early, they would be in Savannah for
    Ash Wednesday
    Naturally they had to attend Mass, and they could leave the house
    early
    and unobservedBut how could they keep their father from seeing the
    smudges of ash on their foreheads when they returned to the house?
    "Wash your face," said Scarlett impatiently, thereby revealing her
    ignorance and the recent date of her return to religionShe dropped
    her napkin on the table"I've got to be off," she said brisklyI'm going to visit my O'Hara uncles and aunts She didn't want
    anyone to know that she was trying to buy the convent's share of
    Tara
    Especially not her aunts, they gossiped too muchWhy, they might
    even
    write to Suellen"What time do we leave in the
    morning for Mass?"
    She'd be sure to mention it to the Mother SuperiorNo need to let on
    that she'd forgotten all about Ash WednesdayWhat a bother it was
    that she'd left her rosary in CharlestonOh, well, she could buy a
    new one at her O'Hara uncles' storeIf she remembered correctly,
    they
    had everything in there from bonnets to plows
    "Miss Scarlett, when are we going home to Atlanta? I don't feel
    comfortable with the folks in your Grandpa's kitchenAnd my shoes is just about wore out from all this walking
    When are we going home where you got all the fine carriages?"
    "Stop that everlasting complaining, PansyWe'll go when I say go and
    where I say go Scarlett's response had no real heat in it; she was
    trying to remember where her uncles' store was, and having no luckI
    must be catching old folks' forgetfulness
    2:15 am
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    become a sailor
    "I'm glad you enjoyed yourself dear, but it was very wicked of Rhett to
    expose you to all that sun and windYou're red as an Indian
    Butler ordered Scarlett to her room with glycerine and rosewater
    compresses on her faceThen she scolded her tall, laughing son until
    he hung his head in pretended shame"If I put up the Christmas
    greens
    I brought you, will you let me have dessert after dinner, or do I have
    to stand in the corner?" he asked in mock humilityEleanor Butler
    spread her hands in surrender"I don't know what I'm going to do
    with
    you, Rhett," she said, but her effort not to smile was a total
    failure
    She loved her son beyond all reasonThat afternoon, while Scarlett
    was submitting to a treatment of lotions for her sunburn, Rhett carried
    one of the holly wreaths he had brought from the plantation to Alicia
    Savage, as a gift from his mother"How kind of Eleanor, and of you,
    RhettWould you like to have a pre-seasonal toddy
    Rhett
    accepted the drink with pleasure, and they talked idly about the
    unusual weather, the winter thirty years earlier when it had actually
    snowed, the year it rained for thirty-eight days in a rowThey had
    known each other as children
    Their families had houses that shared a garden wall and a mulberry
    tree
    with sweet, fingerstaining purple fruit on branches that reached low on
    both sides of the wall"Scarlett's scared half out of her wits about
    the Yankee bedroom prowler," said Rhett after he and Alicia finished
    reminiscing"I hope you don't mind talking about it with an old
    friend who saw up your skirts when you were fiveSavage
    laughed heartily"I'll talk freely if you'll manage to forget my
    youthful antipathy to undergarmentsI was the despair of the whole
    family for at least a year
    but this business with the Yankee isn't funny at allSomebody's going
    to get trigger-happy and shoot a soldier, and then there'll be the
    devil to pay
    "Tell me what he looked like, AliciaI have a theory about him
    "I only saw him for an instant, Rh
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
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    him thirty-odd years ago, as well as the poor souls who fell under his gun this morning in the
    VavilovaHe took the papers from our agent trained at Novgorod; he thinks they’ll get him
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    CarlosI want him dead so I can go on living
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    406
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    292
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    “Which means he’s legitimate,” said the metallic voice in the collar
    “That’s bad, junior,” countered the black agent instantly
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    thick as Southern molasses
    “Oh? Then how do you read it?”
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    2:26 am
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    @@@@@And I had no doubt that if I
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    twice or a dozen times: She said I can't even draw
    stick figures, she said if you can't be an athlete,
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    honest woman may occasionally goof the truth, but
    a good liar never varies her story
    I hadn't asked him about the red picnic basket,
    but I told myself that was all right; if it was in
    the attic of El Palacio, it would still be there
    the next day, and the day after thatI told
    myself there was timeOf course, that's what we
    always tell ourselves, isn't it? We can't imagine
    time running out, and God punishes us for what we
    can't imagine
    I looked at Girl and Ship No8 with something
    approaching distaste and threw the cover-sheet
    over itI never added the red picnic hamper to
    the bowsprit; I never put a brush to that
    particular painting again - the final mad
    descendent of my first sketch in Big Pink, the one
    645
    I'd named Hello8 may have been the best
    thing I ever did, but in a strange way, I almost
    forgot itUntil the show, that wasAfter that I
    could never forget it
    vi
    The picnic basket
    That damned red picnic basket full of her drawings
    Even now, four years later, I find myself playing
    the what-if game, wondering how much would have
    changed if I'd pushed everything else aside and
    gone hunting for itIt was found - by Jack
    Cantori - but by then it was too late
    And maybe - I can't say for sure - it wouldn't
    have changed anything, because some force was at
    work, both on Duma Key and inside Edgar Freemantle
    Can I say that force brought me there? NoCan I
    say it didn't? No, I can't say that, eitherBut
    by the time March became April, it had begun to
    gain strength and ever so stealthily extend its
    reach
    646
    Elizabeth's damned picnic basket
    vii
    Wireman's hope that Elizabeth was coming around
    began to seem unjustifiedShe remained a
    muttering lump in her wheelchair, every now and
    then stirring enough to cry out for a cigarette in
    the cracked voice of an aging parrotHe hired
    Annmarie Whistler away from Bay Area Private
    Nursing to come in and help him four days a week
    The extra help might have eased Wireman's workload,
    but it did little to comfort him; he was heartsore
    But that was something I only glimpsed from the
    corner of my eye as April rolled in, sunny and
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    @@@@@There's the inquisitive line - 'Did you
    @@@@@There's the inquisitive line - 'Did
    you bring me a cookie?' - and the declarative -
    'Get me a towel, Rita, I think that last fart had
    a lump in it'"
    I burst out laughing
    Wireman scraped a sneaker through the shells,
    creating a smile with his footBeyond us, our
    shadows lay on Duma Key Road, which was paved and
    smooth and evenFarther south was
    a different story"The answer to the fan problem,
    should you care, is Dan's Fan CityIs that a
    great name, or what? And I'll tell you something:
    I actually like solving these problemsDefusing
    341
    little crisesI make folks a hell of a lot
    happier here on Duma Key than I ever did in
    court
    But you haven't lost the knack for leading people
    away from the things you don't want to discuss, I
    thought"Wireman, it would only take half an hour
    to get a physician to look into your eyes and tap
    your skull-"
    "You're wrong, muchacho," he said patiently"At
    this time of year it takes a minimum of two hours
    to get looked at in a roadside Doc-in-the-Box for
    a lousy strep throatWhen you add on an hour of
    travel time - more now, because it's Snowbird
    Season and none of them know where they're going -
    you're talking about three daylight hours I just
    can't give upNot with appointments to see the
    air conditioning guy at 17the meter-reader at
    27the cable guy right here, if he ever shows
    up He pointed to the next house down the road,
    which happened to be 39"Youngsters from Toledo
    are taking that one until March fifteenth, and
    they're paying an extra seven hundred bucks for
    something called Wi-Fi, which I don't even know
    what it is
    342
    "Wave of the future, that's what it isWave of the fatherraping,
    mother-stabbing future
    "Movie was 1969, I think," I said
    "Whenever it was, viva the wave of the motherraping,
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    fact that I'm busier than a one-legged man in an
    ass-kicking contestYou
    know it's going to be more than a quick tap and
    peek with the old doctor-flashlightThat's just
    where it st
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    2:26 am
    @@@@@And while I am glad people have been getting
    @@@@@And while I am glad people have been getting richer and richer, I only caution that in the long run, it's not how much you make, it's how much you keep, and how many generations you keep it

    So when people ask, "Where do I get started?" or "Tell me how to get rich quick," they often are greatly disappointed with my answerI simply say to them what my rich dad said back to me when I was a little kid"If you want to be rich, you need to be financially literate

    That idea was drummed into my head every time we were togetherAs I said, my educated dad stressed the importance of reading books, while my rich dad stressed the need to master financial literacy

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    Our school system, having been created in the Agrarian Age, still believes in homes with no foundationDirt floors are still the rageSo kids graduate from school with virtually no financial foundationOne day, sleepless and deep in debt in suburbia, living the American Dream, they decide that the answer to their financial problems is to find a way to get rich quick

    Construction on the skyscraper beginsIt goes up quickly, and soon, instead of the Empire State Building, we have the Leaning Tower of SuburbiaThe sleepless nights return

    As for Mike and me in our adult years, both of our choices were possible because we were taught to pour a strong financial foundation when we were just kids

    Now, accounting is possibly the most boring subject in the worldIt also could be the most confusingBut if you want to be rich, long term, it could be the most important subjectThe question is, how do you take a boring and confusing subject and teach it to kids? The answer is, make it simpleTeach it first in pictures
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    We rounded the back of another buildingJared drove a little faster and kept his eyes
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    Jared kept driving at the same careful speed, turning the corner to the side of the buildingSee?”
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