Word: restfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evil, deranged brother and the righteous, heartbroken brother who put a killer out of commission. As it turns out, the Kaczynski tragedy is more Greek than American, a morally complicated tale in which even the most righteous intentions have created shadows that will haunt all the players for the rest of their lives...
...says, smiling, as if lost in the moment. "We were throwing that ball as hard as we could, and as far as we could... And so we were making these running, leaping catches. We made more fantastic catches that day than I think we did in all the rest of our years together...
...Linda eventually married another man. Faced with this reality, David slipped off to the wilderness--interestingly, not to Ted's Montana mountain area but to the Big Bend desert region of western Texas. He had $40,000 in savings and, like Ted, a vague plan to spend the rest of his years alone...
...Here it's the other way around. I'm not depressed or downcast, and I have things I can do that I consider productive, like working on getting out this book. And yet the knowledge that I'm locked up here and likely to remain so for the rest of my life--it ruins it. And I don't want to live long. I would rather get the death penalty than spend the rest of my life in prison...
...there's anything more annoying than political ads, it's the bombardment of silly, confusing messages from phone companies trying to win your business. Politics, at least, goes away for a couple of years. No chance the phone companies will rest. They've got way too much explaining to do--like why phone bills take hours to decipher, why customers aren't automatically switched to plans that best fit their calling patterns, why long-distance carriers shift you back and forth without your consent and why it can cost more to call the next county than the next state...