The Passage: A Novel (2010)
Justin Cronin
(from internet transcript)
Chapter 53
“Theo.”
He was in the kitchen again. The drawer was open; the knife lay gleaming there. Tucked in the drawer like a baby in its crib.
“Theo, come on now. I’m telling you, all you got to do is pick it up and do her. You do her and this will all be over.”
The voice. The voice that knew his name, that seemed to crawl around inside his head, waking and sleeping. Part of his mind was in the kitchen, while another part was in the cell, the cell where he had been for days and days, fighting sleep, fighting the dream.
“Is that so fucking hard? Am I not being absolutely clear here?”
He opened his eyes; the kitchen vanished. He was sitting on the edge of the cot. The cell with its door and its stinking hole that ate his piss and shit. Who knew what time it was, what day, what month, what year. He had been in this place forever.
“Theo? Are you listening to me?”
He licked his lips, tasting blood. Had he bitten his tongue? “What do you want?”
A sigh from the far side of the door. “I gotta say, Theo. You do impress me. Nobody holds out like this. I think you’ve got some kind of record going.”
Theo said nothing. What was the point? The voice never answered his questions. If there even was a voice. Sometimes he thought it was just something in his head.
“I mean some, sure,” the voice went on. “In some cases you could say it goes against the grain, carving the old bitch up.” A dark chuckle, like something from the bottom of a pit. “Believe me, I’ve seen people do the damnedest shit.”
It was terrible, Theo thought, what staying awake could do to a person’s mind. You went without sleep long enough, you made your brain stand up and walk around day after day after day no matter how tired you felt—you did push-ups and sit-ups on the cold stone floor until your muscles burned, you scratched and slapped yourself and dug at your own flesh with your bloodied nails to keep awake—and before long you didn’t know which was which, if you were awake or asleep. Everything got blended together. A sensation like pain—only worse, because it wasn’t a pain in your body; the pain was your mind and your mind was you. You were pain itself.
“You mark my words, Theo. You do not want to go there. That was not a story with a happy ending.”
He felt his awareness folding again, taking him down into sleep. He dug his nails hard into his palm. Stay. Awake. Theo. Because there was something worse than staying awake, he knew.
“Sooner or later everybody comes around, is what I’m saying, Theo.”
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The Passage: A Novel (2010)
Justin Cronin
(from internet transcript)
Chapter 5
Which was why Cole had come to see him. He needed somebody like Richards, he explained, someone off the books, but not only that. Someone practical, with practical skills. People skills, you might say. Maybe not right away, but in the coming months, as the pieces gathered to form the whole. Security was paramount. Security was at the absolute top of Cole’s list. That’s why he had come all this way and put on this ridiculous luau shirt. To get the buy-in. To get this piece of the puzzle nailed down.
All well and good if things had gone according to plan, which they hadn’t, not by a long shot, starting with the fact that Cole was dead. A lot of people were dead, in fact, and some—well, it was hard to say just what they were. Only three people had come out of that jungle alive, not counting Fanning, who was already well on his way to being … well, what? More than Cole had bargained for, that was for sure. There might have been more survivors, but the order from Special Weapons was clear: anybody who didn’t make it to the dust-off was bacon with a side of toast. The missile that screamed in over the mountains had made sure of that. Richards wondered what Cole would have said if he’d known he wouldn’t be one of them.
By then—by the time Fanning was safely locked away, Lear was on-site in Colorado, and everything that had happened in South America had been wiped from the system—Richards had learned what it was all about. VSA, for Very Slow Aging. Richards had to hand it to whoever had dreamed up that one. VSA: Very Silly Abbreviation. A virus or, rather, a family of viruses, hidden away in the world, in birds or monkeys or sitting on a dirty toilet seat somewhere. A virus that could, with the proper refinements, restore the thymus gland to its full and proper function. Richards had read Lear’s early papers, the ones that had gotten Cole’s attention, the first one in Science and the second in Journal of Paleovirology, hypothesizing the existence of “an agent that could significantly lengthen human life span and increase physical robustness and has done so, at select moments, throughout human history.” Richards didn’t need a PhD in microbiology to know that it was risky stuff: vampire stuff, though no one at Special Weapons ever used the word. If it hadn’t been written by a scientist of Lear’s stature, a Harvard microbiologist no less, it all would have sounded like something from the Weekly World News. But still, something about it hit a nerve. As a kid Richards had read his share of such stories, not just the comic books—Tales from the Crypt and Dark Shadows and all the rest—but the original Bram Stoker, and seen the movies too. A bunch of silliness and bad sex, he knew that even then, and yet wasn’t there something about them that struck a deep chord of recognition, even of memory? The teeth, the blood hunger, the immortal union with darkness—what if these things weren’t fantasy but recollection or even instinct, a feeling etched over eons into human DNA, of some dark power that lay within the human animal? A power that could be reactivated, refined, brought under control?
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Elijah Price: You have good instincts for things like that?
David Dunn: Like what?
Elijah Price: Knowing when people have done something wrong?
David Dunn: Yeah.
Elijah Price: Have you ever tried to develop it?
David Dunn: I don't know what you're asking me.
Elijah Price: Your skill.
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 9:30 AM Thursday, October 14, 2010
The subway. That is incredible. I was taking a nap one evening about 3 years ago and I jumped out of bed and went to a place I had not gone before and a security guard opened the door for me and I made some incredibly relevant observations. I had thought about that scene before after that event but only just now watching that scene on television did I see a detail that defies rational explanation as to why I knew to be there at that location at that specific time.
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67 AMCP: Wednesday, October 13 2:30 PM
2000, PG-13, **1/2, 01:47, Color, English, United States,
The sole survivor (Bruce Willis) of a horrific train crash, questioning his existence, finds counsel in a mysterious stranger (Samuel L. Jackson).
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You have good instincts
for things like that?
:39:35
- Like what?
- Knowing when people
have done something wrong?
:39:42
- Yeah.
- Have you ever tried to develop it?
:39:47
- I don't know what you're asking me.
- Your skill.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 14 October 2010 excerpt ends]
From: Kerry Burgess
To: Chad Trammell
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 5:24 AM
Subject: Re: Mueller
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From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 5:02 PM
To: 'Chad Trammell'
Subject: RE: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the man who knows what you're going to do before you do it.
Because I wonder often that my dreams might be the products of paranormal insight I wonder if I am getting something wrong about the context. That would be why I saw myself in Seattle, although that wasn't clear. My guess is that some scumbag severe racketeering and al Qaida protecting law firm based here in Seattle continues to conspire unlawful activity against me and that might have started to conspire unlawful activities against The Trammell law firm and that is why I have become aware of them
From: Kerry Burgess
To: Chad Trammell
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 1:44 PM
Subject: Mueller
You're all rational people.
Can you not read that news article from the year 2001 and not recognize a clear conspiracy with violence to defraud my identity?
Why does the law protect racketeers and not work for me?
How much clearer does this have to get?
Those are people - George Bush and Robert Mueller and their criminal conspirators - who the law requires are arrested and confined to prison immediately!
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 15 September 2013 excerpt ends]
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Washington Navy Yard shooting
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The Washington Navy Yard shooting occurred on September 16, 2013, when lone gunman Aaron Alexis fatally shot twelve people and injured three others in a mass shooting at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) inside the Washington Navy Yard in Southeast Washington, D.C. The attack, which took place in the Navy Yard's Building 197, began around 8:20 a.m. EDT
From: Kerry Burgess
To: Chad Trammell chad@thetrammellfirm.com
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 5:24 AM [ Seattle - Pacific Time USA ]
Subject: Re: Mueller
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You have good instincts for things like that?
- Like what? - Knowing when people have done something wrong?
- Yeah. - Have you ever tried to develop it?
- I don't know what you're asking me.
- Your skill.
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This morning was the first morning that I could remember...
that I didn't open my eyes and feel...
sadness.
I thought the person that wrote that note had an answer for me.
I'm gonna leave now.
Good luck with your exhibition.
So, what kind ofjob do you have, David?
You said you've met guys like me in your work.
- What exactly is it that you do? - I work at the University Stadium.
I'm a security guard.
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Prosecutor nominated to head FBI / `No-nonsense' ex-Marine [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
MICHAEL HEDGES, Houston Chronicle WashingtonBureau Staff
FRI 07/06/2001 Houston Chronicle
"One thing I would emphasize about Bob Mueller: He is a guy who will know how to fire
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U.S. Marshals Service
District of South Carolina
History
The United States Marshal Office in South Carolina was established on September 24, 1789. The Eastern and Western Districts of South Carolina were formed on February 21, 1823, when Congress divided the South Carolina District. On October 07, 1965, the Eastern and Western Districts merged and became what is now known as the District of South Carolina. The following is a listing of Marshals for the District of South Carolina.
DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA
District Marshals Date Vice
Glover, Lydia August 01, 1985 (C) Whitworth (Retired)
Brooks, Israel March 11, 1994 (C) Glover (Term Expired)
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Elijah Price: You could have been a tax accountant. You could have owned your own gym. You could have opened a chain of restaurants. You could've done of ten thousand things, but in the end, you chose to protect people. *You* made that decision, and I find that very, very interesting.
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[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 16 September 2013 excerpt ends]
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from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 10/1/2006 6:48 PM
I’m guessing I didn’t have anymore Sea Service time, which reflects, as I recall, the time a Sailor is assigned to a ship of the fleet, because I was assigned to a SEAL team from the time I returned in 1987 to 1990. I guess further my Sea Service, although interspersed with temporary duty assignments such as shuttle missions, resumed when I was assigned to the Arleigh Burke in 1991. My DD-214 doesn’t reflect that because, first of all, it is about Kerry Burgess, but also because it only reflects the period ending 5/14/90. I may have still flown as a fighter and bomber pilot after 1987, but I don’t think that was ever my primary role again after returning. I am not sure what to think about the thoughts I have had about flying the Apache gunship. Maybe that is something else I did occasionally.
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Army Aviation as a Branch, Eighteen Years After the Decision
A MONOGRAPH
BY
Frank W. Tate
MAJ, AV
School of Advanced Military Studies
United States Army Command and General Staff College
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
page 13
On July 25, 1962, the Army activated its first armed helicopter company in Okinawa. Other units had armed themselves, but this was the first unit designed from the start as an armed helicopter company.
From 7/25/1962 ( the United States Army activated its first armed helicopter company ) To 6/8/2010 ( Justin Cronin - The Passage: Book One of The Passage Trilogy ) is 17485 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/16/2013 is 17485 days
From 4/18/1963 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"The Incredible World of Horace Ford" ) To 9/16/2013 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 9207 days
From 4/18/1963 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"The Incredible World of Horace Ford" ) To 9/16/2013 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9207 days
From 8/23/1943 ( the World War II Battle of Kursk ends ) To 9/16/2013 is 25592 days
25592 = 12796 + 12796
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/14/2000 ( premiere US film "Unbreakable" ) is 12796 days
From 4/13/1959 ( premiere US TV series episode "Whirlybirds"::"Guilty of Old Age" ) To 9/16/2013 is 19880 days
19880 = 9940 + 9940
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) is 9940 days
From 6/13/1955 ( premiere US TV series episode "Studio One"::"The Incredible World of Horace Ford" ) To 9/16/2013 is 21280 days
21280 = 10640 + 10640
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/20/1994 ( on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10640 days
From 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) To 9/16/2013 is 14639 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/1/2005 ( Georg Bush - Remarks on Signing Legislation To Place a Statue of Rosa Parks in the National Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol ) is 14639 days
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D.C. Navy Yard gun attack kills 12, injures 8; alleged shooter dead, is ID’d as Aaron Alexis
By Ashley Halsey III , Peter Hermann and Clarence Williams September 16, 2013
A gunman killed a dozen people as the workday began at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, creating an improbable moment of horror at a military facility with armed guards at every gate and leaving investigators seeking clues about what spurred the attack.
The FBI identified the shooter as Aaron Alexis, 34, of Fort Worth, who in 2011 received a general discharge from the Navy Reserve, a designation that usually signals a problem in his record. Alexis was arrested but not charged in a gun incident in Seattle in 2004 but still had a security clearance with a military contractor that allowed him access to the Navy Yard, officials said.
The Passage: A Novel (2010)
Justin Cronin
(from internet transcript)
Chapter 5
Richards could feel it now; the whole thing was adrift. Part of the problem was the sheer boredom of it all. You couldn’t drop eighty men onto a mountainside with nothing to do but count rabbit skins and ask them to stay put and keep their mouths shut forever.
And then there were the dreams.
Richards had them, too, or thought he did. He never quite remembered. But he sometimes woke up feeling like something strange had happened in the night, as if he’d taken an unplanned trip and only just returned. That’s what had happened with the two sweeps who’d gone AWOL. The castrati had been Richards’s idea, and for a time it had worked out nicely; you’d never meet a more docile bunch of fellows, mellow as the Buddha every one, and when the game was finally over, nobody that anyone was ever going to miss.
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CBS NEWS October 31, 2013, 1:13 PM
The Washington Navy Yard shooting, as it happened
As investigators look into the history of Aaron Alexis, the man believed to be responsible for the Washington Navy Yard shooting that killed 12 and wounded eight, a portrait of a disturbed man with a history of mental health issues has emerged.
Alexis appears to not have left a manifesto or suicide note behind, so investigators are relying on what they find in his personal history to explain why such a tragedy occurred.
Another lingering issue is how Alexis was able to pull off a massacre in the heart of America's capital, inside one of the command buildings of its Navy.
Navy Yard shooting victims included Navy veteran, mother of two
Navy Yard employee helps visually impaired co-worker escape
Navy Yard helicopter crew recounts harrowing rescue
Below is an account of the event, compiled by CBSNews.com from news reports, investigators, and eyewitness statements.
Aaron Alexis moved to the Washington, D.C. area about three weeks before Monday's massacre. He was working for the Florida-based IT consulting firm The Experts, doing part-time work at the Washington Navy Yard as a subcontractor, helping the military update computer systems. He had been going to school and doing IT work on and off since leaving the fulltime Navy Reserves in 2011 after a four-year stint. His last post in the Navy was in Fort Worth, where he repaired aircraft.
In Washington, D.C., he shared a room with other contractors at a hotel just a few blocks from the shooting scene, reports CBS News correspondent Bob Orr. Investigators say the roommates were not involved in the attack.
On Saturday, two days before the massacre, Alexis visited Sharpshooters Small Arms Range in Lorton, Virginia, which is about 15 miles from the Navy Yard. An attorney for the gun range told the Associated Press he rented a rifle, bought bullets, and took target practice. He later bought a shotgun and 24 shells.
The gun range's attorney said the store ran a federal background check on Alexis and it came back clear.
On the morning of the shooting, investigators say Aaron Alexis drove to the Navy Yard base and walked directly to building 197, the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters. He had worked there every day in the previous week.
Surveillance cameras captured Alexis using his security card to open a door.
The Experts' CEO, Thomas Hoshko, told the Associated Press that Alexis had "no personal issues," and he confirmed that Alexis had been granted a "secret" clearance by the Defense Security Service five years ago.
Alexis's clearance -- lower than "top secret" -- doesn't need to be renewed for 10 years. Still, the company said it hired outside vendors twice to check Alexis' criminal history. Alexis' background check "came back clear," Hoshko said.
When Alexis opened the door using his security card, he was carrying a bag, which investigators believe contained the disassembled shotgun he would later use to launch his attack, reports CBS News correspondent John Miller. It is still not clear whether this was the same shotgun he bought two days earlier in Virginia.
After getting inside the building, Alexis headed to a bathroom, where he put the shotgun back together. He then employed some of the very same tactics he learned in his military training.
Police say it appears Alexis headed straight to the fourth floor that overlooks an atrium that was filled with employees having breakfast or coffee. The first call to 911 happened around 8:15 a.m. Investigators believe he chose the spot because it offered a position of tactical advantage, allowing him to shoot down into the atrium or across to other walkways.
Alexis stayed there, firing away, until he was confronted by responding police and security officers. D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said it took about seven minutes for the first officers to arrive on the scene.
A D.C. police officer was among the first to exchange shots with him and was wounded.
NCIS agents also confronted Alexis and fired. Alexis took to the stairwells, moving from level to level of the atrium, continuing to shoot. Alexis shot a security officer and took his weapon.
Once he left the atrium, teams of police searched, with no contact. For a long time -- some estimate as much as 15 to 20 minutes -- police searched until a team made up of a D.C. police officer and a U.S. Park Police officer suddenly came face to face with Alexis in an upper floor hallway. They opened fire, killing him.
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tv.com
The Twilight Zone Season 4 Episode 15
The Incredible World of Horace Ford
Aired Apr 18, 1963 on CBS
Quotes
(Closing Narration)
Narrator: Exit Mr. and Mrs. Horace Ford, who have lived through a bizarre moment not to be calibrated on normal clocks or watches. Time has passed, to be sure, but it's the special time in the special place known as--the Twilight Zone.
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Studio One Season 7 Episode 39
The Incredible World of Horace Ford
Aired Sunday 7:30 PM Jun 13, 1955 on CBS
AIRED: 6/13/55
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Elijah Price: Do you see any Teletubbies in here? Do you see a slender plastic tag clipped to my shirt with my name printed on it? Do you see a little Asian child with a blank expression on his face sitting outside on a mechanical helicopter that shakes when you put quarters in it? No? Well, that's what you see at a toy store. And you must think you're in a toy store, because you're here shopping for an infant named Jeb.
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- posted by Kerry Burgess 12:59 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 31 October 2018
