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  1. Rec 62

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    "I didn't plan for this," Bruce says after a few minutes, and he sounds bewildered.

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    28 Jun 2010

  2. Rec 23

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    Getting out of El Dorado means going somewhere -- but that's the tricky part.

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    19 Jun 2010

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    The corporeal and the optimistic.

    Chel wraps her arms around the woman, pressing her face first into her breasts and then sinking down against her belly, and when she feels the firm fecund roundness of it she looks up, terrified.

  3. Rec 1

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    "Nixon knows the moment he sees the sign -- roughly scribbled in chalk on a half-burnt door either fallen, blown, or ripped from its hinges -- that this is the reason he has come to Berlin."

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    10 Jun 2010

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    Nixon in Berlin.

    It gives him something to hang onto, something other than Vat 69 to calm him down when he realises that the war is over and he has to go home.

  4. Rec 17

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    "We look like boy soldiers, is what Dick Winters says." Dick and Nix, through the days.

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    9 Jun 2010

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    Winters/Nixon, war and post-war, sex and alcoholism.

    Nixon realises well enough what he is doing - this is the kind of thing they write poetry about, right? In fact, isn't this poetry?

    So what if it is? Lewis Nixon isn't going to be reciting it. He can't yet - it's still writing itself inside his body.

  5. Rec 2

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    And then you become a paratrooper, and things get a little crazy. You never know what to expect when you jump out of perfectly good airplanes into a hail of bullets.

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    9 Jun 2010

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    Winters/Nixon, post-war, sparse. you may be starting over but you've both been here before

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