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'I'm here,' she'd say, 'I might as well learn something.'

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'I'm here,' she'd say, 'I might as well learn something.'

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p100

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'A cinch,' Fossie said, and gazed down at his pretty girlfriend. 'Thing is, you just got to want it enough.'

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'A cinch,' Fossie said, and gazed down at his pretty girlfriend. 'Thing is, you just got to want it enough.'

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p99

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The girl seemed tired and somewhat lost, but she smiled.

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The girl seemed tired and somewhat lost, but she smiled.

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p99

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'Look, if you think about it,' he said, 'it's not that crazy. You could actually do it.'

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'Look, if you think about it,' he said, 'it's not that crazy. You could actually do it.'

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p98

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While the outpost was isolated and vulnerable, Eat said, he always felt a curious sense of safety there.

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While the outpost was isolated and vulnerable, Eat said, he always felt a curious sense of safety there.

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p97

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The Greenies were not social animals. Animals, Rat said, but far from social.

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The Greenies were not social animals. Animals, Rat said, but far from social.

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p97

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p101

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[on trauma care] It was gory work, Rat said, but predictable.

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[on trauma care] It was gory work, Rat said, but predictable.

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p96

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"... I mean, you can't import your own personal poontang."

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"... I mean, you can't import your own personal poontang."

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p96

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Vietnam was full of strange stories, some improbable, some well beyond that, but the stories that will last forever are those that swirl back and forth across the border between trivia and bedlam, the mad and the mundane.

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Vietnam was full of strange stories, some improbable, some well beyond that, but the stories that will last forever are those that swirl back and forth across the border between trivia and bedlam, the mad and the mundane.

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p95

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No more fantasies, he told himself ... He would shut down the daydreams.

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No more fantasies, he told himself ... He would shut down the daydreams.

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p22

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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross reminded himself that his obligation was not to be loved but to lead. He would dispense with love; it was not now a factor.

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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross reminded himself that his obligation was not to be loved but to lead. He would dispense with love; it was not now a factor.

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p23

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He would accept the blame for what had happened to Ted Lavender. He would be a man about it.

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He would accept the blame for what had happened to Ted Lavender. He would be a man about it.

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p22

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Boom-down, and you were dead, never partly dead.

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Boom-down, and you were dead, never partly dead.

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p22

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p21

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where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing - Gone! they screamed, I'm sorry but I'm gone! - and so at night, not quite dreaming, they gave themselves over to lightness, they were carried, they were purely borne.

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where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing - Gone! they screamed, I'm sorry but I'm gone! - and so at night, not quite dreaming, they gave themselves over to lightness, they were carried, they were purely borne.

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p20

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By and large they carried these things inside, maintaining the mask of composure.

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By and large they carried these things inside, maintaining the mask of composure.

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p20

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Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.

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Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.

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p19

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They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really.

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They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really.

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p19

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It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of GLORY or honour, just to avoid the blush of dishonour. They died so as not to die of embarassent.

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It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of GLORY or honour, just to avoid the blush of dishonour. They died so as not to die of embarassent.

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p19

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They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing.

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They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing.

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p19

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They carried the common secret of cowardice barely restrained, the instinct to run or freeze or hide, and in many respects this was the heaviest burden of all, for it could never be put down

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They carried the common secret of cowardice barely restrained, the instinct to run or freeze or hide, and in many respects this was the heaviest burden of all, for it could never be put down

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p19

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Grief, terror, love, longing - these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight.

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Grief, terror, love, longing - these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight.

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p19

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as if the repetition itself were an act of poise, a balance between crazy and almost crazy

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as if the repetition itself were an act of poise, a balance between crazy and almost crazy

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p19

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They were actors. When someone died, it wasn't quite dying, because in a curious way it seemed scripted, and because they had their lines mostly memorized, irony mixed with tragedy, and because they called it by other names,  as if to encyst and destroy the reality of death itself.

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They were actors. When someone died, it wasn't quite dying, because in a curious way it seemed scripted, and because they had their lines mostly memorized, irony mixed with tragedy, and because they called it by other names,  as if to encyst and destroy the reality of death itself.

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p18

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They were afraid of dying but they were even more afraid to show it.

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They were afraid of dying but they were even more afraid to show it.

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p18

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p17

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Now and then, however, there were times of panic, when they squealed and or wanted to squeal but couldn't, when they twitched and made moaning sounds and covered their heads and said Dear Jesus and flopped around on the earth and fired their weapons blindly and cringed and sobbed and begged for the noise to stop and went wild and made stupid promises to themselves and to God and to their mothers and fathers, hoping not to die.

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Now and then, however, there were times of panic, when they squealed and or wanted to squeal but couldn't, when they twitched and made moaning sounds and covered their heads and said Dear Jesus and flopped around on the earth and fired their weapons blindly and cringed and sobbed and begged for the noise to stop and went wild and made stupid promises to themselves and to God and to their mothers and fathers, hoping not to die.

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p17

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She belonged to another world, which was not quite real,

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She belonged to another world, which was not quite real,

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p15

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He wished he could find some great sadness, or even anger, but the emotion wasn't there and he couldn't make it happen. Mostly he felt pleased to be alive.

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He wished he could find some great sadness, or even anger, but the emotion wasn't there and he couldn't make it happen. Mostly he felt pleased to be alive.

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p16-17

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He felt shame. He hated himself. ... this was something he would have to carry like a stone in his stomach for the rest of the war.

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He felt shame. He hated himself. ... this was something he would have to carry like a stone in his stomach for the rest of the war.

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p15

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for all the ambiguities of Vietnam, all the mysteries and unknowns,there was at least the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.

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for all the ambiguities of Vietnam, all the mysteries and unknowns,there was at least the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.

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p15

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the hump was everything, a kind of inertia, a kind of emptiness, a dullness of desire and intellect and conscience and hope and human sensibility.

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the hump was everything, a kind of inertia, a kind of emptiness, a dullness of desire and intellect and conscience and hope and human sensibility.

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p14

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it was just the endless march, village to village, without purpose, nothing won or lost. They marched for the sake of the march.

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it was just the endless march, village to village, without purpose, nothing won or lost. They marched for the sake of the march.

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p14

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p13

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Norman Bowker, otherwise a very gentle person, carried a thumb

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Norman Bowker, otherwise a very gentle person, carried a thumb

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p12

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p12

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the waiting was worse than the tunnel itself. Imagination was a killer.

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the waiting was worse than the tunnel itself. Imagination was a killer.

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p11

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whoever drew the number 17 would strip off his gear and crawl in headfirst with a flashlight and Lieutenant Cross's .45-caliber pistol.

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whoever drew the number 17 would strip off his gear and crawl in headfirst with a flashlight and Lieutenant Cross's .45-caliber pistol.

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p10

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p10

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they took turns humping a 28 pound mine detector. ... the equipment was a stress on the lower back and shoulders... but they carried it anyways, partly for safety, partly for the illusion of safety.

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they took turns humping a 28 pound mine detector. ... the equipment was a stress on the lower back and shoulders... but they carried it anyways, partly for safety, partly for the illusion of safety.

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p9

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though it was painful, he wondered who had been with her that afternoon. He imagined a pair of shadows moving along the strip of sand where things came together but also separated. It was phantom jealousy.

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though it was painful, he wondered who had been with her that afternoon. He imagined a pair of shadows moving along the strip of sand where things came together but also separated. It was phantom jealousy.

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p9

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she had found the pebble on the Jersey shoreline, precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.

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she had found the pebble on the Jersey shoreline, precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.

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p8

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Lieutenant Cross carried his good luck pebble. 

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Lieutenant Cross carried his good luck pebble. 

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P.12

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...in a sense she never returned.  Not all of her.

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...in a sense she never returned.  Not all of her.

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p108

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They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried

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They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried

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p7

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"your in a place" maryanne said softely "where you dont belong". she moved her hand in a gesture that encompassed not just the hootch but everything around it, the entire war...

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"your in a place" maryanne said softely "where you dont belong". she moved her hand in a gesture that encompassed not just the hootch but everything around it, the entire war...

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p ??

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They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried

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They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried

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p8

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But Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried 34 rounds when he was shot and killed outside Than Khe, and he went down under an exceptional burden, more than 20 pounds of ammunition, plus the flak jacket and helmet and rations and water and toilet paper and tranquilizers and all the rest, plus the unweighted fear.

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But Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried 34 rounds when he was shot and killed outside Than Khe, and he went down under an exceptional burden, more than 20 pounds of ammunition, plus the flak jacket and helmet and rations and water and toilet paper and tranquilizers and all the rest, plus the unweighted fear.

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p7

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often they carried each other, the wounded or the weak.

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often they carried each other, the wounded or the weak.

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p14

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They had no sense of strategy or mission

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They had no sense of strategy or mission

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p14

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"They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere , they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity."

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"They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere , they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity."

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p14

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You come over clean and you get dirty and then afterward it's never the same.

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You come over clean and you get dirty and then afterward it's never the same.

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p115

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For Mary Anne Bell, it seemed, Vietnam had the effect of a powerful drug: that mix of unnamed terror and unnamed pleasure that comes as the needle slips in and you know you're risking something. The endorphins start to flow, and the adrenaline, and you hold your breath and creep quietly through the moonlit nightscapes; you become intimate with danger

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For Mary Anne Bell, it seemed, Vietnam had the effect of a powerful drug: that mix of unnamed terror and unnamed pleasure that comes as the needle slips in and you know you're risking something. The endorphins start to flow, and the adrenaline, and you hold your breath and creep quietly through the moonlit nightscapes; you become intimate with danger

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p115

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'Do something,' he whispered. ' I can't just let her go like that.' Rat listened for a time, then shook his head. 'Man you must be deaf. Shes already gone.'

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'Do something,' he whispered. ' I can't just let her go like that.' Rat listened for a time, then shook his head. 'Man you must be deaf. Shes already gone.'

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p114

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it was like watching a rock fall, or a big sandbag or something - just boom, then down - not like the movies where the dead guy rolls around and does fancy spins and goes ass over teakettle - not like that, Kiowa said, the poor bastard just flat-fuck fell.

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it was like watching a rock fall, or a big sandbag or something - just boom, then down - not like the movies where the dead guy rolls around and does fancy spins and goes ass over teakettle - not like that, Kiowa said, the poor bastard just flat-fuck fell.

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p7

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At the girls throat there was a necklace of human tongues.

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At the girls throat there was a necklace of human tongues.

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p112

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"They carried their own lives, the pressures were enormous."

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"They carried their own lives, the pressures were enormous."

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p.14

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"She was part of the land. She was wearing her culottes, her pink sweater and her necklace of human tongues. She was dangerous. She was ready for the kill."

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"She was part of the land. She was wearing her culottes, her pink sweater and her necklace of human tongues. She was dangerous. She was ready for the kill."

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p.117

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p116

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He would sometimes taste the envelope flaps, knowing her tongue had been there.

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He would sometimes taste the envelope flaps, knowing her tongue had been there.

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p3

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p21

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"Whenever he looked at the photographs, he thought of new things he should have done."

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"Whenever he looked at the photographs, he thought of new things he should have done."

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p5

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"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die."

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"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die."

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p19

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It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt

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It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt

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p89

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"Mary Anne wasn't afraid to get her hands bloody. At times, in fact, she seemed fascinated by it."

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"Mary Anne wasn't afraid to get her hands bloody. At times, in fact, she seemed fascinated by it."

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p102