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ASSISTANT DIRECTOR IN CHARGE Walter Pickett,
Special Agent Coldmoon,”
Constance—despite
Proctor, Pendergast’s stoic chauffeur-
fifteen-hundred-dollar bottles of Dom Pérignon.
Sherlock Holmes
Woodford Reserve
“Acta est fabula, plaudite!”
bottle of Grain Belt,
NO PUEDO DORMIR,”
congri and tamales.
Oglala tradition
tiospaye
JENNY ROSEN FOLLOWED her friends Beth and Megan around the corner of Seventh Street and onto Ocean Drive.
words of Joseph, legendary leader of the Nez Percé: White men have too many chiefs.
“My blood alone remains. Take it, but don’t let me suffer long.”
AGATHA BRODEUR FLAYLEY September 3, 1975 March 12, 2007
My lovely Agatha, Your end was the most horrifying of all and for that I am so very sorry.
Death lies on you like an untimely frost. Because I am a man of Action and not just words, I have brought you a gift by way of atonement. With fond wishes, Mister Brokenhearts
Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky,’”
pugnaciousness.
empyrean
pseudoscience.
Action
Death
Journey,
Atonement.
Louboutin sandals
“columbarium.”
Doctor Faustus.
Mephistopheles
She was my reason for life, and why I must survive. He googled it and found it was an altered quotation from the novel Atonement by British novelist Ian McEwan.
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it “Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”
