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| Email address: mstrait@wellesley.edu.
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| Gemini: (May 21—June 21) Um...try not to talk. It's for the best. | | |
| He stepped back and shot it through the right front knee. The animal
did not make a sound. It went down hard, then got up again, and Rat
took careful aim and shot off an ear. He shot it in the hindquarters
and in the little hump at its back. He shot it twice in the flanks. It
wasn't to kill; it was to hurt. He put the rifle muzzle up against the
mouth and shot the mouth away. Nobody said much....He shot off the
tail. He shot away chunks of meat below the ribs....Rat went to
automatic. He shot randomly, almost casually, quick little spurts in
the belly and butt. Then he reloaded, squatted down, and shot it in the
left front knee. Again the animal fell hard and tried to get up, but
this time it couldn't quite make it. It wobbled and went down sideways.
Rat shot it in the nose. He bent forward and whispered something, as if
talking to a pet, then he shot it in the throat. All the while the baby
buffalo was silent, or almost silent, just a light bubbling sound where
the nose had been. It lay very still. Nothing moved except the eyes,
which were enormous, the pupils shiny black and dumb.
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| As defined in The Devil's Dictionary:
Optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything is right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile. Being a blind faith, it is inaccessible to the light of disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious. | | |
| "An imbecilic young female addict from my home state of Ohio, about nineteen years old, had had a baby whose father was unknown. Social workers put her and the baby into a hotel not unlike the Arapahoe. She bought a full-grown German shepherd police dog for protection, but she forgot to feed it. Then she went out one night on some unspecified errand, and she left the dog to guard the baby. When she got back, she found that the dog had killed the baby and eaten part of it." | | |
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