Today is 04/14/2025, Post #2

I Am Legend (1954)

by Richard Matheson

Chapter 7

The cross. He held one in his hand, gold and shiny in the morning sun. This, too, drove the vampires away.

Why? Was there a logical answer, something he could accept without slipping on banana skins of mysticism?









I Am Legend (1954)

by Richard Matheson

Chapter 7

At last, mercifully, night came. He locked the garage door, went back to the house, and locked the front door, putting the heavy bar across it. Then he made a drink and sat down on the couch across from the woman.

From the ceiling, right before her face, hung the cross.

At six-thirty her eyes opened. Suddenly, like the eyes of a sleeper who has a definite job to do upon awakening; who does not move into consciousness with a vague entry, but with a single, clearcut motion, knowing just what has to be done.

Then she saw the cross and she jerked her eyes from it with a sudden rattling gasp and her body twisted in the chair.

"Why are you afraid of it?" he asked, startled at the sound of his own voice after so long.

Her eyes, suddenly on him, made him shudder. The way they glowed, the way her tongue licked across her red lips as if it were a separate life in her mouth. The way she flexed her body as if trying to move it closer to him. A guttural rumbling filled her throat like the sound of a dog defending its bone.

"The cross," he said nervously. "Why are you afraid of it?"

She strained against her bonds, her hands raking across the sides of the chair. No words from her, only a harsh, gasping succession of breaths. Her body writhed on the chair, her eyes burned into him.

"The cross!" he snapped angrily.

He was on his feet, the glass falling and splashing across the rug. He grabbed the string with tense fingers and swung the cross before her eyes. She flung her head away with a frightened snarl and recoiled into the chair.

"Look at it!" he yelled at her.









From 3/8/1964 ( premiere USA film "The Last Man on Earth" ) To 8/8/2023 ( ) is 21702 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/3/2025 ( ) is 21702 days









by me, Kerry Burgess, posted online by me: August 8, 2023

Repeated line to Teal'c: You should be serving your god!

by me, Kerry Burgess: *All* gods are false gods!









Stargate SG-1 - "The Serpent's Lair - Part 2" - season 2 episode 1 - Friday 26 June 1998

(from internet transcript)

APOPHIS
Bra'tac, how dare you betray me?

BRA'TAC
I have spent 133 years worshipping false gods - no more!









Stargate SG-1 - "Children of the Gods" - tv series premiere Season 1 Episode 1 - 07/27/1997

(from internet transcript)

JACKSON: Did you see? Did you see?









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Stargate SG-1

Quotes

[repeated line]

Teal'c: Indeed.



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 11:32 AM Pacific-timezone USA Monday 04/14/2025