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...undercarriage. Its three occupants clambered down cliffs to the crocodile-infested river, while clouds of mosquitoes whined about them. As night fell, they built a fire to keep curious elephants at bay. One elephant, Hemingway said later, "was silhouetted twelve paces away, listening to my wife snore." When he woke her, she said, " 'I never snore. You've got a fixation about "it.' I said, 'So has the elephant...
...mention that foul word to me. Morning. They can exploit us in the afternoon, they can suck our blood in the evening But when they charge us six bucks for skipping breakfast, that's when we wind up our yoyos and go on the warpath. Many times I've woke up with eyes on fire, a mouthful of hair, and the bedsheets giving me soft, lingering caresses every time I try to move a muscle. Even the clock seems sleepy after I throw it on the pile of dirty clothes in the corner. On the desk, which is bare...
Abstraction. In Seattle, John E. Trimmer told police that he had bolted his apartment door, put $40 in a sock, put the sock on his foot and crawled into bed, next morning woke up to find the sock still on his foot, the $40 missing...
Going Back. Early next morning, the three prisoners woke up. One of the guards started to weep, demanding that Christakis give him his gun. "He wouldn't quit." said the younger brother, "so I let him have it in the leg. I should have shot the captain for waking him, but it's bad to kill people." At noon, the strange party landed at the Greek island of Corfu and gave themselves up. To newsmen's questions about their escape from Communism, the soldiers would say nothing, but the captain was just as outspoken in denunciation...
...chronicle closes matter-of-factly and rather sadly, with an account of Churchill's defeat by the Labor Party in the elections of 1945. Churchill went to bed "in the belief that the British people would wish me to continue my work . . . However, just before dawn, I woke suddenly with a sharp stab of almost physical pain. A hitherto subconscious conviction that we were beaten broke forth and dominated my mind. All the pressure of great events, on and against which I had mentally so long maintained my 'flying speed,' would cease and I should fall...