https://twitter.com/hvom2022/status/1535919702152622080
Kerry Burgess
@hvom2022
2:39 AM Jun 12, 2022
12/8/2003.
I remember that so well.
I was living in that apartment in Redmond, Washington
In the spare bedroom, I had my computer setup similar to here in the living-room of this smaller apartment
My 27-inch cathode-ray-tube Mitsubishi tv from year 1990 sat on a file cabinet
I was enthusiastic about that 2-part Battlestar Galactica miniseries and was entertained
Two months later, after I had suddenly surprised any one knowing me at my full-time-employment at Microsoft Corp., I was at the Crossland here in Spokane Valley and...
"I'm here a week now... waiting for a mission... getting softer. Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter."
From 9/11/2001 ( ) to 2/6/2004 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my final day full-time employment Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) is 878 days
Rainbow Six (1998) - Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
CHAPTER 35
Dmitriy dismounted and took the three steps to the body to make sure that Hunnicutt was dead. Then he unsaddled Jeremiah, who took the death of his owner phlegmatically, and removed the bridle, too, surprised that the animal didn't bite him for what he'd just done, but a horse wasn't a dog. With that done, he smacked the stallion heavily on the rump, and it trotted off for fifty meters or so, then stopped and started grazing.
Popov remounted Buttermilk and clucked her to a northerly direction. He looked back, saw the lit windows of the Project building complex, and wondered if he or Hunnicutt would be missed. Probably not, he judged, as the interstate highway grew closer. There was supposed to be that little village to the west, but he decided that his best chance was the bus stop hut, or perhaps thumbing a ride on a car or truck. What he'd do after that, he wasn't sure, but he knew he had to get the hell away from this place, just as fast and as far as he could manage. Popov was not a man who believed in God. His education and his upbringing had not aimed him in that direction, and so for him "god" was only the first part of "goddamned." But he'd learned something important today. He might never know if there was a God, but there were surely devils and he had worked for them, and the horror of that was like nothing he'd ever known as a young colonel of the KGB.
From 6/16/2012 ( Liu Yang became the first Chinese woman in space ) To 11/17/2019 ( ) is 2710 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/4/1973 ( the World Trade Center dedication ceremony in New York City New York United States ) is 2710 days
From 2/29/1948 ( from Wikipedia on the global-internetwork: The House Foreign Affairs subcommittee published a report titled Strategy and Tactics of World Communism which concluded that world revolution was the goal of communism. ) To 11/17/2019 ( ) is 26194 days
26194 = 13097 + 13097
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/11/2001 ( ) is 13097 days
From 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) To 11/17/2019 ( ) is 7776 days
7776 = 3888 + 3888
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/25/1976 ( premiere US film "The Omen" ) is 3888 days
From 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 11/17/2019 ( ) is 8907 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/23/1990 ( premiere US film "Pretty Woman" ) is 8907 days
From 5/21/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: Re: Journal May 21, 2006 ) To 11/17/2019 ( ) is 4928 days
4928 = 2464 + 2464
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/1/1972 ( Jerry Killian documents the suspension of flight status of George W. Bush - George W. Bush was never a pilot qualified or even capable of controlled flight in any jet aircraft of any branch of the United States of America military and George W. Bush DESERTED his USA military obligations after discovery that he bribed another traitor to fake his qulifications ) is 2464 days
From 1/16/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: 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 ) To 11/17/2019 ( ) is 10532 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/3/1994 ( China and Russia agree to detarget their missiles against each other ) is 10532 days
https://news.yahoo.com/u-spy-agencies-collected-raw-224300685.html
NBC News
U.S. spy agencies collected raw intel hinting at public health crisis in Wuhan, China, in November
Ken Dilanian and Robert Windrem and Courtney Kube, NBC News April 9, 2020
The South China Morning Post, citing Chinese government data, reported that the first documented case of someone in China's suffering from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, occurred Nov. 17.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075005/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Omen (1976)
Release Info
USA 25 June 1976
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/06/pretty-woman.html
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: June 07, 2019
Pretty Woman
So, I've have established clearly that my official United States Navy documents as Kerry Burgess indicate I began on 03/24/1990 separation leave from active duty United States Navy.
I have described the memories I still have in my conscious mind of visualizations of that final day.
My enlistment did not end officially until 05/14/1990 but I had almost 2 years vacation time saved up and I used it all at the end of my enlistment. Since I would not be returning to a US Navy base, I was separated and on leave beginning 03/24/1990. I still had an official United States Navy identification card but I was ordered to return it by postal mail after 05/14/1990.
The point here is to describe my theory that the day I can visualize leaving the now-defunct Charleston Naval Station, South Carolina, flinging my uniform hat from the overpass after I drove through the main security checkpoint of the base, was the day Friday 03/23/1990.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I think it was my first thought after waking up this morning that I used to date Julia Roberts a long time ago.
I also have these unexplained thoughts that I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. military, although I'm not sure which service, but I may have been in two different branches over time. I am also confused about thoughts that I may have been a helicopter pilot. What's next? A space shuttle pilot? Seems like a lot for someone that is only 40. And, while I am not sure when this divergence happened, I am reasonably certain it was before I turned 33. So I must have been a pretty busy guy. Especially because I have thoughts that I was some kind of mathmetician too. I have these thoughts too that I was captured by enemy forces at some point and tortured while in captivity.
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: 9/26/2006 3:06 PM
As I was trying to go to sleep last night, I had a thought that I have a doctorate in computer science from Princeton.
and I had thoughts that I studied music as well at Princeton.
Posted by me, Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 3:06 AM Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Salesman
Also, "Salesman." I saw that in a dream while sleeping recently. I saw myself going through an induction process in the United States Marine Corps and I woke up understanding that I was dreaming of my actual experience in 1990. I saw a document that indicated I was being inducted to the United States Marine Corps with the officer grade of Chief Warrant Officer 2. I saw in the dream another document associated with my induction and that document indicated I had been assigned the informal name "Salesman."
From 10/31/1938 ( "Radio 'Invasion' Throws Listeners into Hysteria," Seattle Post-Intelligencer ) To 12/1/2019 ( ) is 29616 days
29616 = 14808 + 14808
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/19/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals ) is 14808 days
From 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) To 12/1/2019 ( ) is 7790 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/2/1987 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Statement on the Withdrawal of the Nomination of Robert M. Gates To Be Director of Central Intelligence ) is 7790 days
From 8/14/1947 ( premiere US film "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" ) To 9/11/2001 ( ) is 19752 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/1/2019 ( ) is 19752 days
From 9/11/2001 ( ) To 12/1/2019 ( ) is 6655 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/22/1984 ( premiere US TV series "Airwolf" ) is 6655 days
From 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: 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 ) To 12/1/2019 ( ) is 10545 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/16/1994 ( premiere US film "Timecop" & premiere US film "Blue Sky" & premiere US film "Princess Caraboo" ) is 10545 days
From 6/16/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess my official records United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital includes: Date of Admission, psychiatric unit ) To 12/1/2019 ( ) is 5281 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/18/1980 ( from Wikipedia on the global-internetwork: The Iranian Cultural Revolution began with an attack on the Teachers' Training College in Tehran, hours after the Ayatollah Khomeini's speech warning of the danger of "Western universities". In the days that followed, Khomeini's supporters staged attacks ) is 5281 days
From 12/31/1974 ( the United States of America Privacy Act of 1974 - United States Public law 93-579 ) To 12/1/2019 ( ) is 16406 days
16406 = 8203 + 8203
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/18/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2), from my official enlisted {non-commissioned officer} United States Navy records: during USA Armed Forces Expeditionary Operation Earnest Will with my personal participation and commendation - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - aboard the USS Wainwright CG-28 US Navy the United States Operation Praying Mantis ) is 8203 days
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1235463/Coronavirus-patient-zero-Wuhan-market-China-virus-epicentre-coronavirus-latest-China-news
The first known person to contract the coronavirus fell ill on December 1, 2019
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals: 11/9/2006 8:16 PM
I might have known Robert Gates when he was at the CIA.
https://historylink.org/File/4002
Sources:
"Radio 'Invasion' Throws Listeners into Hysteria," Seattle Post-Intelligencer October 31, 1938, pp. 1, 2;
"Women Faint as Lights Go Out At Concrete," Seattle Post-Intelligencer October 31, 1938, p. 1;
"F.C.C. Probes Broadcast of Martians 'Conquering' U.S.," The Seattle Times October 31, 1938, pp. 1, 4;
"Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact" The New York Times, October 31, 1938, pp. 1, 2.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 10:21 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 19, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I wonder where the divergence point is in history? When did I become Kerry Burgess and who am I really? There was probably a real Kerry Burgess, someone that looked like me.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals: 11/06/07 3:10 AM
For some reason, I wasn't as puzzled when I started to understand this series was associated with my identity. That was around the time I was thinking the same thing about the "Timecop" television series.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111438/quotes
IMDb
Timecop (1994)
Quotes
Fielding: I really could care less whether you like me or not, but you don't know a thing about me. I was with IA for two years, I'm field-rated in weapons and tactics, and speak three languages. Impressed?
Walker: I'm blown away.
Fielding: I read the Atwood file.
Walker: You didn't mention you could read.
http://navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=19713
Department of the Navy
GW Replaces 3,000 Mattresses in Preparation for Crew Move Aboard
USS George Washington (CVN 73) (GW) improved the quality of life for her sea warriors by replacing old mattresses aboard with 3,000 brand new ones
https://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/4F02.html
"Treehouse of Horror VII" [The Simpsons]
Original airdate in U.S.: 27-Oct-96
Bart Simpson: You expect me to believe all this? If any of it was true, wouldn't I have a big hideous scar right...(pulls down the right side of his pants and underwear revealing a huge scar)...AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
From 11/28/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 2" ) To 4/19/1989 ( ) is 8908 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/24/1990 ( ) is 8908 days
by me, Kerry Burgess, NOVEMBER 18, 2017
I have documented often that the calendar date 3/24/1990 is listed in my official United States Navy documents as the day I began Separation Leave for my US Navy enlistment and subsequent Honorable Discharge.
I documented that the calendar date 3/26/1990 must have been the first day of my civilian employment with Ketterman's in Greenville South Carolina.
That was the job where I worked as a computer technician.
That job was a computer maintenance contract for First Federal Savings and Loan based in Greenville.
The most challenging work was keeping the bank's automatic teller machines operating.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073802/quotes
IMDb
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Quotes
Kathy: I wish I knew more. About you. About yesterday. Today.
Joe Turner: I don't remember yesterday. Today it rained.
From 5/25/2002 ( Sioux City airport renamed Colonel Bud Day Field ) To 3/7/2022 ( ) is 7226 days
7226 = 3613 + 3613
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/24/1975 ( premiere US film "Three Days of the Condor" ) is 3613 days
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) To 3/7/2022 ( ) is 11919 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/21/1998 ( Bill Clinton, 42nd President of USA: Statement on Handgun Control Legislation ) is 11919 days
From 10/7/1971 ( premiere US film "Conversations in Vermont" ) To 3/7/2022 ( ) is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: 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 10/7/1971 ( United States Patent 3,761,682 - Filed - Docutel Corporation - Credit Card Automatic Currency Dispenser ) To 3/7/2022 ( ) is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: 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 10/9/1971 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: my biological brother Dr. Thomas Reagan MD becomes a United States of America board-certified surgeon - the Princeton University doctor of medicine degree graduate and in 1973 the law-doctorate graduate of University of Oxford, England ) To 3/7/2022 ( ) is 18412 days
18412 = 9206 + 9206
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/16/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: 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 9206 days
From 12/24/1945 ( Harry Truman, 33rd President of USA: Proclamation 2676 - Granting Pardon to Certain Persons Who Have Served in the Armed Forces of the United States ) To 3/7/2022 ( ) is 27832 days
27832 = 13916 + 13916
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/9/2003 ( premiere US TV miniseries finale episode "Battlestar Galactica" ) is 13916 days
https://www.krem.com/video/about-us/who-is-jeremy-lagoo-get-to-know-krem-2s-new-chief-meteorologist/293-a0612c8e-5630-4ebe-9466-ea7d7886c803
Who is Jeremy LaGoo? Get to know KREM 2's new Chief Meteorologist
As Jeremy LaGoo transitions to his new role as Chief Meteorologist, he answers some questions about his personality.
Author: krem.com
Published: 4:15 PM PST March 7, 2022
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
(Ragnar Anchorage - Adama and Leoben are in some sort of room with lots of pipes and steam. Leoben is extremely pale and sweaty now.)
Leoben: What is it about this place? What's it doing to me?
Adama: Must be your allergies.
Leoben: I don't have allergies.
Adama: I didn't think so. What you got are silica pathways to the brain, or whatever it is you call that thing you pretend to think with. It's decomposing as we speak.
Leoben: It's the storm, isn't it? It puts out something. Something you discovered has an effect on Cylon technology. That's it, isn't it? And this is a refuge, that's why you put a fleet out here. Last ditch effort to hide from the Cylon attack. Right, well, that's not enough Adama. I've been here for hours. Once they find you, it won't take them that long to destroy you. They'll be in and out before they even get a headache.
Adama: Maybe. (He grabs Leoben, pushes him up against the wall.) But you, you won't find out, because you'll be dead in a few minutes. How does that make you feel? If you can feel.
Leoben: Oh, I can feel more than you could ever conceive of, Adama. But I won't die. When this body dies, my consciousness will be transferred to another one. And when that happens, (he collapses to the ground with a groan) I think I'll tell the others exactly where you are, and I think that they'll come, and they'll kill all of you. And I'll be here watching it happen.
Adama: You know what I think? I think if you could have transferred out of here, you woulda done it long before now. I think the storm's radiation really clogged up your connection. You're not going anywhere. You're stuck in that body.
Leoben: Doesn't matter. Sooner or later, (he smiles) the day comes when you can't hide from the things you've done.
by me, Kerry Burgess, June 18, 2017
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Was Condor qualified with a handgun?
"Two years military service, Signal Corps, Telephone lineman, switchboard maintenance, 6 months overseas, Separated 9/61, worked at communication research college."
The question was: Is he qualified with a handgun?
From 1/5/1953 ( Harry Truman, 33rd President of USA: Statement by the President on Report "Whom We Shall Welcome" by the Commission on Immigration and Naturalization ) To 9/24/1975 ( premiere US film "Three Days of the Condor" ) is 8297 days
From 11/2/1965 ( me ) To 7/21/1988 ( as Kerry Burgess my official enlisted United States Navy documents includes: Small Arms Operator & Roving Security Patrol, USS Wainwright CG-28, United States Navy ) is 8297 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_outbreak_in_the_United_States
2020 coronavirus outbreak in the United States
From Wikipedia
The first confirmed case of the global outbreak of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States was announced on January 21, 2020.
From 7/14/1943 ( premiere US film "For Whom the Bell Tolls" ) To 1/21/2020 ( ) is 27950 days
27950 = 13975 + 13975
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/6/2004 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my final day full-time employment Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) is 13975 days
From 5/15/1944 ( Ulrich Beck ) To 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) is 19803 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/21/2020 ( ) is 19803 days
From 3/10/2004 ( premiere US film "Dawn of the Dead" ) To 1/21/2020 ( ) is 5795 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/14/1981 ( premiere US TV series "The People's Court" ) is 5795 days
From 3/10/2004 ( premiere US film "Dawn of the Dead" ) To 1/21/2020 ( ) is 5795 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/14/1981 ( premiere US TV series "Entertainment Tonight" ) is 5795 days
From 9/30/2014 ( the United States Centers for Disease Control announces confirmation of the first known case of Ebola in the United States ) To 1/21/2020 ( ) is 1939 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/23/1971 ( premiere US TV movie "The Selling of the Pentagon" ) is 1939 days
From 10/24/1989 ( "The Stand" complete edition, by Stephen King ) To 1/21/2020 ( ) is 11046 days
11046 = 5523 + 5523
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/16/1980 ( Harland Sanders dead ) is 5523 days
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/coronavirus-fueling-worldwide-anxiety/story?id=68424536
Providence Regional Medical Center Everett where a man with the first case of coronavirus in the United States is being treated in Everett, Wash., Jan. 21, 2020.
The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King
(from internet transcript)
Chapter 29
Stu went back and peered around the corner and back where he had come from. The dead body in the white-suit was tiny with distance now, hardly more than a speck, but seeing it there so changeless and eternal made him want to run away as fast as he could.
He turned right, setting his back to it again. Twenty yards farther up, the corridor branched into another T-junction. Stu turned right and went past more offices. The corridor ended at the microbiology lab. In one of the lab carrels a young man clad in jockey shorts lay sprawled over his desk. He was comatose, bleeding from the nose and mouth. His breath rattled in and out with a sound like October wind in dead cornhusks.
And then Stu did begin to run, turning from one corridor to another, becoming more and more convinced that there was no way out, at least not from this level. The echo of his footfalls chased him, as if either Elder or Vic had lived just long enough to put a squad of ghostly MPs on his trail. Then another fancy crowded that out, one he somehow associated with the queer dreams he had been having the last few nights. The idea grew so strong that he became afraid to turn around, afraid that if he did he would see a white-suited figure striding after him, a white-suited figure with no face but only blackness behind a Plexiglas plate. Some dreadful apparition, a hit-man from beyond sane time and space.
Panting, Stu rounded a corner, sprinted ten feet before he realized the corridor was a dead end, and crashed into a door with a sign over it. The sign read EXIT.
He pushed at the bar, convinced it would not move, but it did, and the door opened easily. He went down four steps to another door. To the left of this landing, more stairs went down into thick darkness. The top half of this second door was clear glass reinforced with crisscrossed safety wire. Beyond it was only the night, the beautiful mellow summer night, and all the freedom a man ever dreamed of.
Stu was still staring out, transfixed, when the hand slipped out of the darkness of the stairwell and grasped his ankle. A gasp tore at Stu’s throat like a thorn. He looked around, his belly a freezing floe of ice, and beheld a bloody, grinning face upturned in the darkness.
“Come down and eat chicken with me, beautiful,” it whispered in a cracked and dying voice. “It’s soooo dark—”
Stu screamed and tried to pull free. The grinning thing from the darkness held on, talking and grinning and chuckling. Blood or bile was trickling from the corners of its mouth. Stu kicked at the hand holding his ankle, then stomped it. The face hanging in the darkness of the stairwell disappeared. There was a series of thudding crashes… and then the screams began. Of pain or of rage, Stu could not tell. He didn’t care. He battered against the outside door with his shoulder. It banged open and he tottered out, whirling his arms to keep his balance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Beck
Ulrich Beck
From Wikipedia
Ulrich Beck (15 May 1944 – 1 January 2015) was a well known German sociologist, and one of the most cited social scientists in the world during his lifetime.
His work focused on questions of uncontrollability, ignorance and uncertainty in the modern age, and he coined the terms "risk society" and "second modernity" or "reflexive modernization".
He also tried to overturn national perspectives that predominated in sociological investigations with a cosmopolitanism that acknowledges the interconnectedness of the modern world.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 04:50 AM Pacific-time USA Monday 08/01/2022
