Word: bernadino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drag along with him, when he retired to EI Cass Pacifica, the man who understood him best. So Thompson is holedup in Boulder Creek, listening to tapes of Jimmy Carter speeches and reading about himself in Doonesbury. Thompson was best in writing about thugs and goons, from San Bernadino's Hell's Angels and the burnt-out geeks of Las Vegas, to the inhabitants of the Oval Office. Covering Saigon at the time of NLF victory, when Nixon was gone, Thompson seemed trivial, almost offensive. At the same time the presidential tapes were revealing that H.E. and P. even talked...
...course of a routinely blase abortion-alone? To escape, or perhaps just to survive, Maria "fixed her imagination on a needle dripping sodium pentathlon into her arm.... When that failed she imagined herself driving, conceived audacious lane changes, strategic shifts of gear, the Hollywood to the San Bernadino and straight out, past Barstow, past Baker, driving straight on into the hard white empty core of the world." Again, the desert. It all leads back to the nothing that is desert...
...matter, Sam will remember. In Wedded We, as opposed to Single I, no one needs remember every detail. Mental burdens shared, one of the many blessings of the life of conjoined souls. Touching Alfred's thin ear, she peacefully watches the day bloom in earnest over the San Bernadino Valley...
...mister driving has an Oklahoma accent and a square jaw like one Merilee once knew. As they near the Greyhound Station in San Bernadino, she asks if she can kiss him goodbye. Doubtfully he says don't mind if you do. They are at a stoplight. Merilee leans over Girl and her sweet mouth covers the man's, drawing strength and breath and everlasting resolution from him. He is startled and the cars behind him are tooting their horns. "What was that all about, hon?" he asks...
...they near the Greyhound Station in San Bernadino, Merilee wakes up agains and says "Hey mister? would you mind so much taking me back to the mountains...