The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy)
Justin Cronin
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So it was that Deputy Director Horace Guilder (were there any actual directors anymore?) had found himself sitting before the Joint Chiefs (enough stars and bars around the table to start a Girl Scout troop) to offer his official assessment of the situation in Colorado. (Sorry, we made vampires; it seemed like a good idea at the time.)
The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy)
Justin Cronin
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and checked his watch again. A little after nine, Well, whatever was happening in the middle of the country was happening.
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https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/research/histories/naval-aviation/Naval%20Aviation%20News/1980/pdf/aug82.pdf
Naval Aviation News
August 1982
page 17
The P-3 design was the answer to the Chief of Naval Operations' call for a land-based maritime patrol antisubmarine warfare aircraft, in August 1957, to replace the P2V Neptune
the Y-P-3A full-systems development prototype, which first flew on November 25, 1959.
The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy)
Justin Cronin
Page 58 of 593 (Amazon Kindle Version)
He left the townhouse and drove to McLean. What lay ahead was a grim duty, but Guilder was the only one to do it. The facility was set back from the road behind a sweeping green lawn; by the driveway a sign read, SHADOWDALE CONVALESCENT CENTER. At the check-in desk, Guilder presented his driver's license to the nurse, then proceeded down the medicinal-smelling hallway, past its mass-produced paintings on green fields and summer sunsets. The place was quiet, even for the hour; unusually there were orderlies around, and patients in the common room, those who still got some benefit from human company. Tonight the place was a tomb.
He came to his father's room and gently knocked, opening the door with waiting for an answer.
"Pop, it's me."
His father was propped in his wheelchair by the window. His jaw drooped open, the muscles of his face as slack as pancake batter. A pendulum of spittle dangled from his mouth to the paper bib around his neck. Somebody dressed him in a stained sweat suit and orthopedic shoes with Velcro tabs. He gave no sign of recognition as Guilder stepped into the room.
"How you doing, Pop?"
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The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy)
Justin Cronin
Page 58 of 593 (Amazon Kindle Version)
The air around his father tanged of urine. The Alzheimer's had progressed to the point where he recognized no one, but still one had to go through the motions. How terrifying it was, Guilder thought, the solitude of the mind. Yet his father's silence, the feeling of absence, was nothing new. In life - as now, in death - he had been a man of almost reptilian coldness. Guilder knew that this was just the way his father had been raised - the son of small-town dairy farmers who'd attended church three times weekly and slaughtered their own hogs - yet still he couldn't bring himself to put aside his resentments for a boyhood spent hoping to win the attention of a man who was simply incapable. It had been a small thing, a natural thing, what he'd asked of his father, simply by being born: to treat him like a son. A game of catch on a fall afternoon, a word of praise from the sidelines, an expression of interest in his life. Guilder had done everything right. The good grades, the dutiful performances in auditoriums and on athletic fields, the full ride to college and swift ascent into a useful adulthood. Yet his father had virtually nothing to say about any of this. Guilder could not, in fact, recall a single instance when his father had told him he loved him, or touched him with affection. The man just didn't care.
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The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy)
Justin Cronin
Page 60 of 593 (Amazon Kindle Version)
But her life, her real life, had been a secret from him.
Always these visits to his father brought these memories to the surface; by the time he left, he was often so dispirited, or else seething with unexpressed rage, that he could barely think straight. Fifty-seven years old, yet still he craved some flicker of acknowledgement.
He positioned the room's only chair in front of his father. The old man's head, bald as a baby's, was tipped at an awkward angle against his shoulder. Guilder retrieved a rag from the bedside table and wiped the spit from his chin. An open container of vanilla pudding sat on a tray with a flimsy metal spoon.
"So how you feeling, Pop? They treating you okay?"
Silence. And yet Guilder could hear his father's voice in his head, filling in the spaces.
"Are you kidding me? Look at me, for Christ's sake. I can't even take a proper shit. Everyone talking to me like I'm a child. How do you think I am, sonny boy?"
"I see you didn't eat your dessert. You want some pudding? How would that be?"
"Fucking pudding! That's all they give me around this place. Pudding for breakfast, pudding for lunch, pudding for dinner. The stuff's like snot.
Guilder tucked a spoonful between his father's teeth. Through some autonomic reflex, the old man smacked his lips and swallowed.
"Look at me. You think this is a picnic? Drooling on myself, sitting in my own piss?"
"Don't know if you've been following the news lately," Guilder said, delivering a second spoonful into his father's mouth. "There's something I thought you should know about."
"So? Say your piece and leave me alone."
But what did Guilder want to say? I'm dying? That everyone was dying, even if they didn't know it yet?
What purpose could this information possibly serve? A chilling thought occurred to him. What would become of his father when everyone was gone, the doctors and nurses and orderlies? With everything that had happened in the last few weeks, Guilder had been too preoccupied to consider this eventuality. Because the city was emptying out; soon, in weeks or even days, everyone would be running for their lives.
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The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy)
Justin Cronin
Page 60 of 593 (Amazon Kindle Version)
"Are you listening to me, sonny boy? Sitting there with that big dumb look on your face. What's so all-fired important that you came here to tell me?
Guilder shook his head. "It's nothing, Pop. Nothing important."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2183903/
tv.com
Jerry Springer (1991– )
But, I Had Your Baby 13 Days Ago
TV-14 1h Talk-Show Episode aired 23 January 2012
A man wants to break up with the woman who recently gave birth to his child
Release Date: 23 January 2012 (USA)
http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/2F09.html
Homer the Great [ The Simpsons television series episode ]
Original airdate in N.A.: 8-Jan-95
Number One: Homer Simpson, for your continuing and baffling desecration of our beloved sacred parchment, you are hereby banished from the stonecutters forever. And as a final humiliation, you must walk home naked, dragging behind you the Stone of Shame.
[someone snaps a metal collar around his neck]
[he starts to walk out when everyone gasps and points]
Hibbert: The mark!
Homer: Oh, that. It's just a birthmark. And I'll thank you not to stare!
Moe: He's the Chosen One!
[everyone bows low before him]
Number One: You are the Chosen One whom the sacred parchment prophesied would lead us to glory! Now to the top of Mount Springfield for the coronation! Remove the Shone of Shame.
Homer: Woo hoo!
Number One: Attach the Stone of Triumph!
Homer: B'oh!
Everyone: Yay! [they all run off]
[Homer strains like anything with the new larger stone]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701115/fullcredits
IMDb
The Simpsons (TV Series)
Homer the Great (1995)
Full Cast & Crew
Patrick Stewart ... Number One (voice)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119567/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Release Info
USA 19 May 1997 (Los Angeles, California) (premiere)
USA 23 May 1997
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/Stargate:_The_Movie_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
(from internet transcript)
CATHERINE
Jackson, are those your parents?
[Daniel glances from her to the photograph, his motion to lower his hood arrested for a moment.]
Doctor Daniel Jackson
Foster parents.
[Catherine replaces the photograph and continues to look at the file.]
DANIEL
Wha-what is this all about?
CATHERINE
A job.
DANIEL
(with a nervous chuckle)
What kind of a job?
CATHERINE
Translation. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Interested?
[Catherine smiles at him. Daniel continues to look at her.]
DANIEL
I-I'm gonna go now.
CATHERINE
Go where?
(chuckles)
I mean, you've just been evicted from your apartment. Your grants have run out. Everything you own are in those two bags. Want to prove that your theories are right? This is your chance.
[She holds out an envelope, gesturing for him to take it. Daniel glances from her to the envelope before taking it.]
DANIEL
What's this?
CATHERINE
Travel plans.
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- posted by Kerry Burgess 12:31 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 02 November 2018
