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Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
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Chapter 8
After a time he began to sidle near to the youth, and in a diffident way try to make him a friend. His voice was gentle as a girl's voice and his eyes were pleading. The youth saw with surprise that the soldier had two wounds, one in the head, bound with a blood-soaked rag, and the other in the arm, making that member dangle like a broken bough.
After they had walked together for some time the tattered man mustered sufficient courage to speak. "Was pretty good fight, wa'n't it?" he timidly said. The youth, deep in thought, glanced up at the bloody and grim figure with its lamblike eyes. "What?"
"Was pretty good fight, wa'n't it?"
"Yes," said the youth shortly. He quickened his pace.
But the other hobbled industriously after him. There was an air of apology in his manner, but he evidently thought that he needed only to talk for a time, and the youth would perceive that he was a good fellow.
"Was pretty good fight, wa'n't it?" he began in a small voice, and the he achieved the fortitude to continue. "Dern me if I ever see fellers fight so. Laws, how they did fight! I knowed th' boys 'd like it when they onct got square at it. Th' boys ain't had no fair chanct up t' now, but this time they showed what they was. I knowed it 'd turn out this way. Yeh can't lick them boys. No, sir! They 're fighters, they be."
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 02/11/09 7:25 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_Plan
Anaconda Plan
The Anaconda Plan is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War. Proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, the plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports, and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two. Because the blockade would be rather passive, it was widely derided by the vociferous faction who wanted a more vigorous prosecution of the war, and who likened it to the coils of a anaconda suffocating its victim. The snake image caught on, giving the proposal its popular name.
[ JOURNAL ARCHIVE 11 February 2009 excerpt ends ]
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The Andromeda Strain
AETVP
01:40:46 (man) 5 MILES FROM THE TARGET, I want you to let loose and climb like hell.
01:40:57 Theoretically you should be able to avoid the aftershock, but no one's actually dropped one of these things since nagasaki.
01:41:04 Blair.
01:41:05 You may authorize the launch when ready.
01:41:08 YES, SIR. (cell phone beeps) It's a go. sir.
01:41:26 What exactly are we lookin' for?
01:41:28 Ha, trespassers, little green men, who knows?
01:41:32 they're pullin' us back.
01:41:35 let's go.
01:41:38 (eagle screeches) WHAT IS THAT?
01:41:41 Some kind of eagle, sir.
01:41:44 (eagle screeches) what is that thing?
01:41:49 Whoa, whoa, you can't shoot an eagle, sergeant.
01:41:56 It's a rat.
01:41:57 He's bombing us with a rat.
01:42:00 No, way.
01:42:02 (screams, groans) Oh, my head! you all right?
01:42:09 What's up, man? oh, it hurts.
01:42:21 He's dead.
01:42:22 This isn't happening.
01:42:24 Oh, man, this isn't happening.
01:42:27 It's the end of days, the mark of the beast.
01:42:32 Cut that out right now. the seals are broken!
01:42:34 Hell in a handbasket, it's where we're goin'!
01:42:37 Put your gun down!
01:46:42 If mancheck hadn't kept us in the dark-- we just ran out of time.
01:46:49 (sighs) THERE ARE JUST SOME THINGS THAT DON'T Add up.
01:46:52 Chou's casing theory doesn't--doesn't feel right.
01:46:55 Something's missing, but i-i just can't put MY FINGER ON IT.
