I can still recall standing in the backyard of my house that I was very proud to own in Country Club Estates in Greer South Carolina. My property had a lot of trees and I wanted to cut down the trees and I can still recall standing there in the backyard with my father-in-law. We were there in the middle of the day. There were no distant stars in the sky. My father-in-law discussed with me the best strategy for cutting down the trees on the edges of my property and which included pine trees and some other very tall trees. He brought a winch with him and, while attaching the cable as high up on the pine tree as possible, he would cut into the pine tree slowly with the chain saw and I would winch in the cable so that the tree was pulled towards me so that we could cause the tree to fall into my yard instead of falling onto my neighbors lawn.
I can still recall standing there in the north east corner of my property and there were no distant stars visible in the day time sky and I was facing him as he cut into a pine tree with the chain saw and I was pulling the lever handle with the plastic cover on the winch back and forth and at one point, the tree must have been falling the wrong direction, although that did not happen in my memory, and the rope that fastened the winch to the tree I was next to and that anchored the winch suddenly snapped and I was standing there and I saw the winch shoot towards my father-in-law and I remember how sudden that happened and I was standing there and the winch had shot away from me and I was standing there holding only the plastic cover that had been on the lever of the winch and I remember vividly how even though I was surprised at how the winch assembly had shot away from me I was still able to quickly call out a warning to him that the winch was shooting towards him.
That must have been the same pine tree that caused me to go to the doctor the next day because a large piece of bark fell down the tree as I was looking up at it and it hit my open eye. We were trying to get the rope as high as possible on the tree, creating a pivot point, and the rope caused a piece of bark of the pine tree to fall down as I was looking up and it hit my open eye. The next day at work I looked in a mirror and I was concerned about how that damage appeared to my eye so I went to see a doctor in Greer South Carolina. The doctor told me he was using a fluorescent substance to determine if there was any damage to the ocular surface, or whatever he said specifically, and I felt stupid that I did not immediately recognize that the substance he was using was based on the substance that is used in the United States Navy survival gear, which was a detail he told me after I had told him about how I had once been in the United States Navy.
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Subject: a world for him
It rained. The procession of weary soldiers became a bedraggled train, despondent and muttering, marching with churning effort in a trough of liquid brown mud under a low, wretched sky. Yet the youth smiled, for he saw that the world was a world for him, though many discovered it to be made of oaths and walking sticks. He had rid himself of the red sickness of battle. The sultry nightmare was in the past. He had been an animal blistered and sweating in the heat and pain of war. He turned now with a lover's thirst to images of tranquil skies, fresh meadows, cool brooks--an existence of soft and eternal peace.
Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.
THE END.
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Memorable quotes for
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
[last lines]
Alex: I was cured, all right!
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Clockwork Orange A
- Well, you seem to have a whole ward to yourself, my boy.
- Yes, sir, and a very lonely place it is too, sir,
when I wake up in the middle of the night with me pain.
Yes.
Well, anyway, good to see you on the mend.
I've kept in constant touch with the hospital, of course,
and now I've come down to see you personally
to see how you're getting along.
- I've suffered the tortures of the damned, sir.
The tortures of the damned.
- Yes I can appreciate that you have had an extremely...
Oh look, let me help you with that, shall I?
- Thank you, sir. Thank you
- I can tell you with all sincerity that I
and the government which I am a member
are deeply sorry about this, my boy. Deeply sorry.
We tried to help you. We followed recommendations
which were made to us that turned out to be wrong.
An enquiry will place the responsibility where it belongs.
We want you to regard us as friends.
We put you right, you're getting the best of treatment.
We never wished you harm,
but there are some who did and do,
and I think you know who those are.
There are certain people who wanted to use you for political ends.
They would have been glad to have you dead
for they thought they could then blame it all on the government.
There is also a certain man, a writer of subversive literature,
who has been howling for your blood.
He's been mad with desire to stick a knife in you,
but you're safe from him now.
We put him away.
He found out that you had done wrong to him,
at least he believed you have done wrong.
He formed this idea in his head
that you had been responsible for the death
of someone near and dear to him.
He was a menace.
We put him away for his own protection, and also for yours.
- Where is he now, sir?
- We put him away where he can do you no harm.
You see, we are looking after your interests.
We are interested in you
and when you leave here you'll have no worries.
We'll see to everything. A good job on a good salary
- What job, and how much?
- You must have an interesting job,
at a salary which you would regard as adequate,
not only for the job you're going to do
and in compensation for what you believe you have suffered.
But also because you are helping us.
- Helping you, sir?
- We always help our friends, don't we?
It is no secret that this government has lost
a lot of popularity because of you, my boy.
There are some that think that in the next election we should get out.
The press has chosen to take a very unfavorable view
of what we tried to do,
but public opinion has a way of changing and you, Alex,
if I may call you, Alex.
- Certainly, sir. What do they call you at home?
- My name is, Frederick.
As I was saying, Alex, you can be instrumental
in changing the public's verdict.
Do you understand, Alex?
Do I make myself clear?
- As an unmuddied lake, Fred.
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By Rachel Pergament
Closing arguments were given on Saturday, July 22, 1995. Solicitor Pope was impassioned when he described the circumstances of Michael and Alex's deaths. "I submit to you that they were in that car, screaming, crying, calling for their father, while the woman who placed them in that car was running up the hill with her hands covering her ears." Pope went back to his theme that the murders were committed so that Susan could reclaim Tom Findlay and have a life with him. "She used the emergency brake handle like a gun
