Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grumblings of his first reader, first editor and first typist (all of them me) -- no! Because of another's will and another's hand. Sections kept vanishing. Once from the apartment in Moscow; once stolen along with his bag at the dental clinic in Gorky; once from our parked car, which had been broken into, with Andrei knocked out by some drug. Each time he rewrote his book. Each time there was something new -- sometimes better written, sometimes not, sometimes on a different subject...
...underneath your feet as you walk up to a tree and start pulling off one Red Delicious after another, a red ladder (probably planted there by the orchard owner to make it look more quaint) leaning against an apple tree, lugging half a bushel of apples back to the car...
...already late, and it was cold. That night it snowed in some portions of Vermont. But we had to pick apples. So we hopped out of the car at the sight of the first apple-laden trees, and one of my roommates started plucking everything in sight...
...drive to and from Vermont can take slightly more than a tank of gas, depending on the tank capacity. Rental cars are difficult to get for the weekend without reservations, but it is possible to find a car with persistent calls to rental businesses in the area...
...When the car stopped in a southern suburb, Hirst, who had succeeded in removing the blindfold, forced the door open and escaped. "When I ran away, they did not shoot," he marveled. Hirst, who then grabbed a taxi back to town, says he has not decided whether to stay in Beirut...