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...state prison. He described the art of murder in one of some 1,000 letters that he wrote to Author Norman Mailer between 1977 and 1980, providing a cool but furious description of life behind bars. It was an existence filled with violence: the violence done to Abbott in roach-infested solitary-confinement cells and the violence that Abbott, long a prison incorrigible, did to others. His was a voice so choked with rage that he admitted, "I have to intentionally gauge [it] in conversation." That anger, he wrote, "could consume me at any moment if I lost control...
...House master, and Hamlin was called into the master's office. "I didn't know what it was all about. I was scared. Then the master said, 'About that cockroach...'" But Hamlin didn't want to squander his upward mobility by making a fuss over a hungry roach. "It was a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. But I was worried, I thought: 'Is my degree in jeopardy? My future?' This master was pretty mad because the manager was outraged. I never got a chance to confront...
Next there is a fight for the New England championship, pitting a feather weight of great appeal from Dedham with the unlikely name of Freddy Roach against the current champion, Joe Phillips. Phillips looks greasy. Roach is pretty sly and pretty soon he takes command. But I am filled with loathing. I go for another...
...becoming quite exercised. He has no previous attachment to Roach but Roach is clearly winning, and that is enough...
Some Portlanders are experimenting with solar energy, despite the city's often rainy climate. Michael Roach, a clothing importer, has installed a sun-powered water-heating system that has cut his natural gas bill in half. The city council has another innovative proposal to encourage the use of solar power: Roach and others will be permitted to buy air rights so that no tall buildings or trees will ever be able to throw a shadow over their place...