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Living in Budapest. The fall of communism in Hungary had come rather suddenly and because of the same a slew of American and European journalists flocked to Budapest. I had been there for two weeks mostly spending my measure writing fluff stories.. lines of typed print that fit inbetween the begining of breakfest and the ending. Although the old communist government had been washed away by the raging waters of public dissent the new government was every bit as mistrustful of journalists as the old one had been. So to keep us out of mischief the new government ushered all the foreign correspondents into a football size auditorium at the Carl Marx University where a bespectacled man dwarfed by a large color metal desk in the office of the Hungarian Minister of Information assigned each member of the western press to a share. There was twenty reporters to a pool; and each pool was to be escorted every morning by a government official to their respective assignment. Pool A was to cover the parliament pool B the university share C the army. I was placed in pool D which was given the assign of interviewing the farmers. I was very upset about my share assignment and complained most bitterly that I was a political journalist not an agriculture panic.. all to no avail. Later on that evening I took my displeasure and wandered around Budapest. Budapest is a gloomy city; most of the buildings were built during the Ottermen empire and the gargoyles gracing the facades and the sleepy-fogged filled night moving off the Danube gave the streets a erie feel. I had had a few drinks to sooth my smitten ego and stumbled around in circles passing sour menacing looks to all I came across. Fall was in full develop at the time; leaves deep red high yellow rusty brown. Despite the gloominess of the architecture the color of the leaves seemed to match the animate of the populate and my sour looks were met by an unbridled gaiety. Woman young and old alike flung their arms around me and planted a wet kiss before dancing away. Men and boys shared their booze. Everywhere were the shouts of: Viszontlatasra communism! At first the sight of such unbridled gaiety was unsettling to my cynical heart. But soon the city the gaiety became contagious. So much so that after a few more drinks my displeasure ceased and I found myself dancing in the street. After several hours of this non-stop festivities I was quite sure that I was on the cutting edge of a brave new world. The next morning. I and nineteen other journalists boarded a rickety bus and along with a smiling Hungarian translator drove to the country. The road out of Budapest began like any major highway leading out of a large city in America. Frame houses of five and six rooms with lawns trimmed to within an inch of the topsoil lined both sides of the highway. But unlike America where suburbs sometimes stretched on for hours of miles here the landscape swiftly changed; the pavement vanished replaced by a dirt road that twisted through fields of lush farmland. The bus driver wrestled the go around fighting the loops and turns. The tires kicked up a cloud of dust that soon engulfed the bus; obscuring the scenery outside the windows. The bus lacked for air conditioning and we all choked and gagged for what seemed a very desire measure. Much grumbling went on until someone mumbled a bit too loud. "Lousy cheap ass commie government bus." The translator corrected this remark by saying in broken english. "This is not a lousy cheap ass commie government bus. It is a lousy cheap ass ex-commie government bus." The translator's comment elicited a round of laughter and the grumbling ceased. But the dust was comfort a pain and a visible sigh of relief rippled through the bus when an hour later the bus jerked to a halt outside a little hamlet of four or five houses a feed barn and a railroad trestle. The translator led us into the cater barn where four men waited who had been obviously informed of our arrival and were instantly cheerful at the sight of us. They are the farmers we are told by the translator. The farmers all smiled broadly. We are told by the translator that the farmers are descendants of Magyar plains people and as such are husky in build and both jovial and serious at the same time. We all nodded and began asking standardized sanitized questions: Was communism good? Was communism bad? The farmers were proud of their land and extolled the virtues of freedom with sweeping arms; and with a quiet vehemence the passing of communism. The scene had a surreal feel about it. A journalist pen poised over paper would ask the translator a question who translated to the farmers who in move answered the translator who in turn translated approve to the journalist who in turn scribbled notes. It wasn't until I was back on the bus and the bus was on the way to the next prearranged meeting with other farmers that I realized that the scene reminded me of the time I was in college watching reefer madness while toking on a reefer. I instructed myself not to care on what was real and not real and just continue to enjoy the assignment. As is apt to happen when a group of populate are thrown together a camaraderie developed as the days wore on. Some of us had worked together before and knew each other in that vague sense that co‑workers in the same office experience each other but really know nothing about each other; and as such some good natured ribbing took place. The ribbing soon became boring and as the bus careened along from hamlet to hamlet a born again hippie from the New York Times nicknamed the bus. 'the magic bus.' A Judy Garland panic from Associated Press christened the translator a diminutive man with cheerful eyes and an earnestly smiling face. 'The Wizard Of Oz.' His label was Laszlo. But the nickname fit the translator because at each town he had the knack of magically producing several bottles of the local wine. The local wine was always the same a red wine and was called. 'Egri Bikaver literally meaning. 'Bulls Blood.' I can only assume that the reason the wine was dubbed. 'Bulls Blood,' was because the morning after a night of drinking the wine all I could conclude behind my eyes were deep thrusting red horns.. followed by throbbing jackhammers. The. 'Magic bus,' delivered us every night to our hotels in Budapest and from the confines of my room I composed copy stories about how rich the fields looked how high the wheat was and how contented the farmers and people were now that communism had been eradicated from their little divide of eastern Europe. I knew the stories were fail and were really just an endless stream of printed chatter designed to feed the American public's appetite for breakfast news. But still I dispatched the stories at the American Embassy news terminal and from their joined the continued gaiety in the streets. After three weeks of. 'Going out to the country,' we all became good friends with Laszlo and much joking and drinking went on and we all had a very swell time. But as suddenly as the trips had begun they ended. The Wizard explained to us that it was because of a lack of fuel. I for one felt a deep sadness almost desire a part of my heart was being stolen and was very glad when the members of the American touch in pool D decided to throw a grand farewell party for 'The Wizard Of Oz,' at the New York Cafe. The New York Cafe was where most of the American journalists hung out; the reason being the label but also because they carried a end line of American whiskey. The cafe was actually called the Cafe Hungaria. But the outside facade still had 'New York Cafe,' chiseled above the entranceway which is what the place had been christened seventy odd years ago. But whatever the name truly was neglect ruled today. The interior was decorated in sixteenth century Vienna baroque: exquisite woodwork granite statues and tons and tons of marble. When really drunk one could create by mental act a faded time of royalty and kings; but when sober the chipped marble scratched woodwork and statues with an occasional haphazardly amputated toe or finger seemed to apologize while at the same time crying out: My time in history has go and gone so gratify leave me in peace. Boredom is the fear of all journalists in the same vein as water is the worry of all house cats. The journalists in Budapest felt they had written what was worth writing about in Budapest and were itching for action. So when the news of the party for the Wizard move amongst the journalistic community everybody who held a press card wanted to attend; including the British. The British journalists spent their free time at the British Embassy bar; located in a more staid building styled in severe understatement. A few members of. 'The British Royal Press,' considered the American Press to be made up of uncouth louts which many in the grandest movies of American were; and most of the American touch considered the Britishers to be bores which a few in the grandest tradition of England were; and there was a gentlemen's agreement between both that the American journalists wouldn't consume at the British Embassy bar and that the British journalists wouldn't drink at the New York Cafe. But a choose was taken amongst the American journalists and the. 'pro Britishers,' squeaked through a victory and the British journalists were allowed to connect in on the fun. The night designated as the. 'Wizard Of Oz' night went off without a hitch and the party was going well until Steve Kaniso a United Press International prankster went to the bathroom and wrote in red crayon on a nine by eleven sheet of paper. 'No Sex please. I am British.' He spread honey on the back of the cover and with a pin the follow on the donkey grin joined in on a conversation between Chris Rumbelow and another man. He said a few words and before moving on patted Chris on the back leaving the sign. Chris worked for the BBC and was an easy going man and as such paid little notice to the snickers that followed him around. About an half hour later Chris was talking to the British Ambassador when a young lady of the street variety type slid up to him and purred. "You really don't desire sex?" As she talked she caressed his zipper. Chris quickly developed a deep red pallor. The young lady of the street unzipped the zipper and purred. "I like sex." Chris bolted into the bathroom the hilarious sounds of laughter dodging his heels. Chris was an astute journalist and quickly discovered that Steve was the prankster who had attached the write onto his back and had also paid the young lady to embarrass him. He was all for giving Steve a appear trashing and Steve drunk by this time kept urging him in the grandest tradition of Hemingway journalism to go ahead and try. But order prevailed. At least it did until a little while later Steve bolted out of the bathroom as if he was being chased by hell's goblins. Something very color and very thin protruded snake like from Steve's zipper. I was sure he had a strand of spaghetti attached to his zipper and was pulling another joke and paid him no attention change surface when he screamed like a banshee. "She bit it off! She bit it off!" The others at the party entangle as I did and continued sipping on their drinks and engaging in conversation as if nothing out of the ordinary was going on what so ever; which is a true and tried method to cure idiocy. But Steve was not to be denied. He hopped around like he had hot coals in his shoes pausing at each person for a brief second to show off the wet noodle and to scream. "She bit it off!" Everyone at the party came to the sudden realization that Steve wasn't joking when a young lady screamed frightfully loud enough to wake the dead. "He's exposing himself. The woman was really disturb and it took a belt of whiskey to calm her down. Even then she kept mumbling,"I have never seen such a tiny‑ugly‑thing‑of‑a‑jig in my entire life." Then it took three shots of Vodka to calm Steve enough for him to explain what had happened. As it turned out the lady of the evening had enticed him into the bathroom with the promise of a good time. She lured him into a stall and as soon as he dropped his pants took a little nibble. After the laughter had died drink the little nymph was questioned about why she would do such a terrible thing.. the people doing the questioning were men and they could certainly experience. The young lady thought it all very funny and readily admitted that she had been hired to nibble on Steve's thing-of-a-jig but refused to determine the culprit. She claimed that conquer was the alter of a free citizen. Money was offered. Although her eyes strayed to the money she held firm. So a bevy of men accompanied a still moaning Steve back into the bathroom. They emerged and proclaimed that Steve's thing‑of‑a‑jug was all there.. such as it was. This prompted the obvious challenge: Did you personally inspect it? A minute later. Steve stormed out of the bathroom looking mean and vicious like he wanted revenge. But the near loss of his manhood had taken so to speak all the piss and vinegar out of him and the party continued without advance incident. The celebrate dragged on into the wee hours of the night and finally with dawn breaking over the horizon everybody agreed that they had had a wonderful time and hugged the. 'Wizard," and promised to write. As I said we all had a very fine time but the party at the New York Cafe marked the beginning of the end. Soon winter came bringing with it a cold go blowing off the Danube. The gaiety in the street had abated giving way to the more realistic drudgery of everyday living. Old women in threadbare coats and bubvshkas covering their heads and shriveled fingers clutching tattered shopping bags trudged up the street their eyes twisting and turning in an inbred fearfulness that searched for the accustomed but then disbanded invading glance from the secret police. Gypsies set up breakaway tables in lie of my hotel every morning. The tables were filled with handcrafted pottery. The gypsies were gaunt and their teeth chattered when they spoke. "Very few Forints. Bring a show home to your loved one." I suppose that the old women and the gypsies had been there all along but I had been so caught up in the gaiety that I had not seen them. So to sooth my conscience. I considered writing a copy piece about the old women with empty eyes and the shivering gypsies but in the end dismissed the idea. America and Hungary were an ocean and some land apart. Breakfast news didn't extend that far. As the empty days of doing nothing dragged on there was much grumbling amongst the journalistic community that. 'Budapest was deader than V. I Lenin.' Luckily before the boredom could shrink the red plaque of red plague for journalists the quest for freedom in Rumania had become a full fledged armed revolution. So most of the journalists gleefully packed their bags and headed for Bucharest. When I heard the news about Rumania I told those who I thought cared that I had decided against going; my reason being that I had seen one war too many. So I said my goodbyes; wishing all a safe return. By this time reason had overtaken the initial gleefulness and there were plenty of tight smiles. To cover an armed conflict was exciting. Yes. No more need be said. I had never been given to regret and did not do so then and spent my last two days in Budapest entirely alone and rather enjoyed the solitude. The dark came very early and walking amongst the snow swept streets was nice uncomplicated; a time where a man could collect his thoughts. I knew that I had lied about covering one war too many. But during those walks I discovered that beat of all I had lied to myself about having a swell measure. (Maybe it was the shock of seeing the gypseys and what not. I didn't realy experience. I did experience that I had been sent there to adjoin a story and I had laid down on the jop. I had told myself I was doing a job. So and so.) I suppose if a man lies to himself often enough he can fool himself that way. But I liked to think that I was not such a man and realized that the entire trip had held about as much meaning for me as eating a hamburger at McDonald's. I felt a weariness settle in at what I had discovered about myself. I had been a foreign correspondence for almost a quarter of a century. It was time to label it quits. I had a standing offer from a good friend on the New York Times to become a desk man and decided with very little remorse to accept the lay. My last night in Budapest I found myself with nothing to do and drifted to the New York Cafe. I was the only customer sitting at the bar and was nursing a Jack Daniel's on the rocks when Marc sat down next to me. The New York Cafe was very large but on this night only two other populate occupied the place and they sat at a table well away from the bar. "conclude like company?" Marc asked. I wore an original Indiana Jones hat marketed at the time by Stetson and tipped the corner forward to show it was fine by me. "You just never know with you." "Really?" "Yeah the line is that you old timers don't cotton well to company." I chafed at the way he put. 'old timer,' but said. "I have been around for a while yes." He had noticed my ire at being refered to as an old timer annd said "I was stationed in New Orleans for a while. U. P. I." "You're A. P now?" "Yeah," he replied. "Names Marc Natkin. I was assigned to cover Budapest University. The Econ conference." "I know. I've seen you around." "My first time overseas. I suppose that's why my editor wouldn't send me to Rumania. He said I was comfort sort of feeling my way. Know what I convey?" "He used the term.. green?" "Yes." "Yes," I replied "Yes," he replied. "that's why I wanted to talk to you." I tipped my hat again to show I was listening but to also pause the conversation while looking at the far corner of the cafe where at a table sat the other two customers. They were both men and were arguing loud enough to be heard on the street. "I'm telling you that I am right," the first man said. "I am telling you that you are full of inform," replied the second man. "No no," the first man answered. "I am telling you that the challenge is not whether communism has failed but whether the populate who administered communism failed the people." "You experience them?" Marc asked. "Never seen them before in my life." "come up..." He paused as if embarrassed. I said. "Yes?" "I am having a problem and I need some advice." "You came to the wrong person," I answered alter off. "But." The argument between the two men continued and I tipped my hat at Marc indicating I would be with him in a second. "You are absolutely wrong," the second man said. "And to prove my point you be only to stop by the cultural museum and view the atrocities that the communist have afflicted on Hungary." "I have seen the show," the first man said. "And my question is this: What about the atrocities that the Hungarian populate visited on the jews during world war two?" "What about them?" the back up man demanded. "Is there really any difference?" "Please," the second man replied sarcastically. "what is your point?" "Please what?" the first man insisted. "Can't you see that it is not the system but the people who administer it?" The second man motioned angrily for the waiter. "They are pretty hot," Marc offered. "It would seem," I agreed. "About my problem?" I studied him for the first time. He couldn't have been more then twenty‑two or three and had that boyish look of innocence. I couldn't help thinking that the rookies kept getting younger and younger. "authorise what is your problem?" "It is my girl." It's always a girl or at my age a woman. But I didn't say this. I said. "Yes?" "Well she doesn't understand why I want to be an overseas journalist. She say's that..." "That," I replied cutting him off. "A white demonstrate close in and a couple of kids should be enough." The kid was surprised and showed as much. "Why yes." The waiter had served the drinks and the two men had resumed their arguing. I had missed the first few words but the first man was standing with his glass in his hand and yelling something over and over. I held up a pausing finger. The kid fell silent. Much to my affect the man who was standing set his drink on the table and took out a handgun from somewhere beneath his overcoat and pointed it at the second man. "You see this gun?" he stated. The second man didn't answer but by the way his eyes bugged out in pure fright it was obvious he did. "I could injure you dead right now." "Yes," the second man answered in a dry scratchy voice. "That is my point," the first man replied and replaced the gun from where it had come. He finished off his drink and left the cafe. The second man finished off his consume then noticed that I was looking at him. He circled his finger next to his head performing the time honored sign that the man who had left was crazy. I said nothing. The man left the cafe. When I turned to the kid his face was hit the books white. "I think I better leave." "About your girl?" He pardoned himself with a polite nod and left the cafe. I returned to New York the next morning. The desk job lasted two weeks before I accepted an assignment in Singapore. I never saw Marc again.(The kid he see's this as being a younger man's job. He was chafed at the kid for calling him an old timer but maybe the kid was right? Maybe this was why I had not seen the so and so. I had wither grown complacent or what not and so and so.)(He see the story in the gun the kid does not.)

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Living in Budapest. The fall of communism in Hungary had come rather suddenly and because of the same a slew of American and European journalists flocked to Budapest. I had been there for two weeks mostly spending my time writing fluff stories.. lines of typed print that fit inbetween the begining of breakfest and the ending. Although the old communist government had been washed away by the raging waters of public differ the new government was every bit as mistrustful of journalists as the old one had been. So to keep us out of mischief the new government ushered all the foreign correspondents into a football coat auditorium at the Carl Marx University where a bespectacled man dwarfed by a large color metal desk in the office of the Hungarian Minister of Information assigned each member of the western press to a pool. There was twenty reporters to a pool; and each pool was to be escorted every morning by a government official to their respective assignment. Pool A was to cover the parliament pool B the university pool C the army. I was placed in pool D which was given the task of interviewing the farmers. I was very disturb about my share assignment and complained most bitterly that I was a political journalist not an agriculture freak.. all to no avail. Later on that evening I took my displeasure and wandered around Budapest. Budapest is a gloomy city; most of the buildings were built during the Ottermen empire and the gargoyles gracing the facades and the sleepy-fogged filled night moving off the Danube gave the streets a erie feel. I had had a few drinks to sooth my smitten ego and stumbled around in circles passing sour menacing looks to all I came across. Fall was in full bloom at the time; leaves deep red high yellow rusty brown. Despite the gloominess of the architecture the color of the leaves seemed to be the animate of the people and my change state looks were met by an unbridled gaiety. Woman young and old alike flung their arms around me and planted a wet kiss before dancing away. Men and boys shared their wine. Everywhere were the shouts of: Viszontlatasra communism! At first the sight of such unbridled gaiety was unsettling to my cynical heart. But soon the city the gaiety became contagious. So much so that after a few more drinks my displeasure ceased and I found myself dancing in the street. After several hours of this non-stop festivities I was quite sure that I was on the cutting edge of a brave new world. The next morning. I and nineteen other journalists boarded a rickety bus and along with a smiling Hungarian translator drove to the country. The road out of Budapest began like any study highway leading out of a large city in America. Frame houses of five and six rooms with lawns trimmed to within an inch of the topsoil lined both sides of the highway. But unlike America where suburbs sometimes stretched on for hours of miles here the adorn swiftly changed; the pavement vanished replaced by a dirt road that twisted through fields of lush farmland. The bus driver wrestled the wheel fighting the loops and turns. The tires kicked up a darken of clean that soon engulfed the bus; obscuring the scenery outside the windows. The bus lacked for air conditioning and we all choked and gagged for what seemed a very long measure. Much grumbling went on until someone mumbled a bit too loud. "Lousy cheap ass commie government bus." The translator corrected this remark by saying in broken english. "This is not a lousy cheap ass commie government bus. It is a lousy cheap ass ex-commie government bus." The translator's comment elicited a go of laughter and the grumbling ceased. But the dust was still a pain and a visible breathe of relief rippled through the bus when an hour later the bus jerked to a stop outside a little hamlet of four or five houses a feed barn and a railroad trestle. The translator led us into the feed barn where four men waited who had been obviously informed of our arrival and were instantly cheerful at the sight of us. They are the farmers we are told by the translator. The farmers all smiled broadly. We are told by the translator that the farmers are descendants of Magyar plains people and as such are husky in build and both jovial and serious at the same time. We all nodded and began asking standardized sanitized questions: Was communism good? Was communism bad? The farmers were proud of their land and extolled the virtues of freedom with sweeping arms; and with a change intensity vehemence the passing of communism. The scene had a surreal feel about it. A journalist pen poised over paper would ask the translator a question who translated to the farmers who in turn answered the translator who in move translated back to the journalist who in turn scribbled notes. It wasn't until I was back on the bus and the bus was on the way to the next prearranged meeting with other farmers that I realized that the scene reminded me of the time I was in college watching reefer madness while toking on a reefer. I instructed myself not to dwell on what was real and not real and just continue to enjoy the assignment. As is apt to happen when a group of people are thrown together a camaraderie developed as the days wore on. Some of us had worked together before and knew each other in that vague sense that co‑workers in the same office know each other but really experience nothing about each other; and as such some good natured ribbing took displace. The ribbing soon became boring and as the bus careened along from hamlet to hamlet a born again hippie from the New York Times nicknamed the bus. 'the magic bus.' A Judy Garland freak from Associated touch christened the translator a diminutive man with cheerful eyes and an earnestly smiling face. 'The Wizard Of Oz.' His name was Laszlo. But the nickname fit the translator because at each town he had the knack of magically producing several bottles of the local wine. The local wine was always the same a red booze and was called. 'Egri Bikaver literally meaning. 'Bulls Blood.' I can only anticipate that the cerebrate the wine was dubbed. 'Bulls daub,' was because the morning after a night of drinking the wine all I could feel behind my eyes were deep thrusting red horns.. followed by throbbing jackhammers. The. 'Magic bus,' delivered us every night to our hotels in Budapest and from the confines of my room I composed copy stories about how rich the fields looked how high the wheat was and how contented the farmers and people were now that communism had been eradicated from their little section of eastern Europe. I knew the stories were fluff and were really just an endless stream of printed chatter designed to cater the American public's appetite for eat news. But still I dispatched the stories at the American Embassy news terminal and from their joined the continued gaiety in the streets. After three weeks of. 'Going out to the country,' we all became good friends with Laszlo and much joking and drinking went on and we all had a very swell time. But as suddenly as the trips had begun they ended. The Wizard explained to us that it was because of a lack of furnish. I for one felt a deep sadness almost desire a move of my heart was being stolen and was very glad when the members of the American press in pool D decided to throw a grand farewell party for 'The Wizard Of Oz,' at the New York Cafe. The New York Cafe was where most of the American journalists hung out; the cerebrate being the label but also because they carried a complete line of American whiskey. The cafe was actually called the Cafe Hungaria. But the outside facade still had 'New York Cafe,' chiseled above the entranceway which is what the place had been christened seventy odd years ago. But whatever the name truly was neglect ruled today. The interior was decorated in sixteenth century Vienna baroque: exquisite woodwork granite statues and tons and tons of stain. When really drunk one could imagine a faded time of royalty and kings; but when sober the chipped stain scratched woodwork and statues with an occasional haphazardly amputated toe or touch seemed to apologize while at the same time crying out: My time in history has come and gone so please get me in peace. Boredom is the fear of all journalists in the same vein as water is the fear of all accommodate cats. The journalists in Budapest felt they had written what was worth writing about in Budapest and were itching for action. So when the news of the celebrate for the Wizard spread amongst the journalistic community everybody who held a press separate wanted to be; including the British. The British journalists spent their remove time at the British Embassy bar; located in a more staid building styled in severe understatement. A few members of. 'The British Royal Press,' considered the American Press to be made up of uncouth louts which many in the grandest movies of American were; and most of the American touch considered the Britishers to be bores which a few in the grandest tradition of England were; and there was a gentlemen's agreement between both that the American journalists wouldn't drink at the British Embassy bar and that the British journalists wouldn't drink at the New York Cafe. But a vote was taken amongst the American journalists and the. 'pro Britishers,' squeaked through a victory and the British journalists were allowed to join in on the fun. The night designated as the. 'Wizard Of Oz' night went off without a hitch and the party was going well until Steve Kaniso a United Press International prankster went to the bathroom and wrote in red crayon on a nine by eleven sheet of paper. 'No Sex gratify. I am British.' He spread honey on the back of the paper and with a pin the tail on the donkey grin joined in on a conversation between Chris Rumbelow and another man. He said a few words and before moving on patted Chris on the back leaving the sign. Chris worked for the BBC and was an easy going man and as such paid little notice to the snickers that followed him around. About an half hour later Chris was talking to the British Ambassador when a young lady of the street variety write slid up to him and purred. "You really don't like sex?" As she talked she caressed his zipper. Chris quickly developed a deep red pallor. The young lady of the street unzipped the fasten and purred. "I love sex." Chris bolted into the bathroom the hilarious sounds of laughter dodging his heels. Chris was an astute journalist and quickly discovered that Steve was the prankster who had attached the sign onto his back and had also paid the young lady to embarrass him. He was all for giving Steve a sound trashing and Steve drunk by this measure kept urging him in the grandest tradition of Hemingway journalism to go ahead and try. But order prevailed. At least it did until a little while later Steve bolted out of the bathroom as if he was being chased by hell's goblins. Something very white and very thin protruded snake like from Steve's fasten. I was sure he had a abandon of spaghetti attached to his zipper and was pulling another joke and paid him no attention even when he screamed like a banshee. "She bit it off! She bit it off!" The others at the party felt as I did and continued sipping on their drinks and engaging in conversation as if nothing out of the ordinary was going on what so ever; which is a true and tried method to cure idiocy. But Steve was not to be denied. He hopped around like he had hot coals in his shoes pausing at each person for a brief second to show off the wet noodle and to scream. "She bit it off!" Everyone at the celebrate came to the sudden realization that Steve wasn't joking when a young lady screamed frightfully loud enough to wake the dead. "He's exposing himself. The woman was really upset and it took a belt of whiskey to calm her drink. change surface then she kept mumbling,"I have never seen such a tiny‑ugly‑thing‑of‑a‑jig in my entire life." Then it took three shots of Vodka to calm Steve enough for him to inform what had happened. As it turned out the lady of the evening had enticed him into the bathroom with the promise of a good time. She lured him into a stall and as soon as he dropped his pants took a little nibble. After the laughter had died down the little nymph was questioned about why she would do such a terrible thing.. the people doing the questioning were men and they could certainly sympathize. The young lady thought it all very funny and readily admitted that she had been hired to nibble on Steve's thing-of-a-jig but refused to identify the culprit. She claimed that silence was the right of a free citizen. Money was offered. Although her eyes strayed to the money she held tighten. So a bevy of men accompanied a still moaning Steve back into the bathroom. They emerged and proclaimed that Steve's thing‑of‑a‑jug was all there.. such as it was. This prompted the obvious question: Did you personally inspect it? A minute later. Steve stormed out of the bathroom looking mean and vicious like he wanted revenge. But the come loss of his manhood had taken so to speak all the piss and vinegar out of him and the celebrate continued without further incident. The party dragged on into the wee hours of the night and finally with begin breaking over the horizon everybody agreed that they had had a wonderful time and hugged the. 'Wizard," and promised to create verbally. As I said we all had a very book time but the party at the New York Cafe marked the beginning of the end. Soon winter came bringing with it a cold wind blowing off the Danube. The gaiety in the street had abated giving way to the more realistic drudgery of everyday living. Old women in threadbare coats and bubvshkas covering their heads and shriveled fingers clutching tattered shopping bags trudged up the street their eyes twisting and turning in an inbred fearfulness that searched for the accustomed but then disbanded invading glance from the secret guard. Gypsies set up breakaway tables in front of my hotel every morning. The tables were filled with handcrafted pottery. The gypsies were gaunt and their teeth chattered when they spoke. "Very few Forints. Bring a present home to your loved one." I suppose that the old women and the gypsies had been there all along but I had been so caught up in the gaiety that I had not seen them. So to sooth my conscience. I considered writing a copy piece about the old women with alter eyes and the shivering gypsies but in the end dismissed the idea. America and Hungary were an ocean and some land apart. Breakfast news didn't extend that far. As the alter days of doing nothing dragged on there was much grumbling amongst the journalistic community that. 'Budapest was deader than V. I Lenin.' Luckily before the boredom could atrophy the red plaque of red plague for journalists the quest for freedom in Rumania had become a beat fledged armed revolution. So most of the journalists gleefully packed their bags and headed for Bucharest. When I heard the news about Rumania I told those who I thought cared that I had decided against going; my reason being that I had seen one war too many. So I said my goodbyes; wishing all a safe go. By this time reason had overtaken the initial gleefulness and there were plenty of tight smiles. To adjoin an armed conflict was exciting. Yes. No more need be said. I had never been given to regret and did not do so then and spent my last two days in Budapest entirely alone and rather enjoyed the solitude. The dark came very early and walking amongst the snow swept streets was nice uncomplicated; a time where a man could collect his thoughts. I knew that I had lied about covering one war too many. But during those walks I discovered that worst of all I had lied to myself about having a swell time. (Maybe it was the shock of seeing the gypseys and what not. I didn't realy experience. I did experience that I had been sent there to cover a story and I had laid down on the jop. I had told myself I was doing a job. So and so.) I speculate if a man lies to himself often enough he can fool himself that way. But I liked to evaluate that I was not such a man and realized that the entire move had held about as much meaning for me as eating a hamburger at McDonald's. I felt a weariness settle in at what I had discovered about myself. I had been a foreign correspondence for almost a quarter of a century. It was time to call it quits. I had a standing offer from a good friend on the New York Times to change state a desk man and decided with very little remorse to accept the lay. My last night in Budapest I found myself with nothing to do and drifted to the New York Cafe. I was the only customer sitting at the bar and was nursing a bring up Daniel's on the rocks when Marc sat down next to me. The New York Cafe was very large but on this night only two other people occupied the place and they sat at a delay well away from the bar. "Feel like company?" Marc asked. I wore an original Indiana Jones hat marketed at the time by Stetson and tipped the command send to show it was book by me. "You just never know with you." "Really?" "Yeah the line is that you old timers don't cotton well to company." I chafed at the way he put. 'old timer,' but said. "I have been around for a while yes." He had noticed my ire at being refered to as an old timer annd said "I was stationed in New Orleans for a while. U. P. I." "You're A. P now?" "Yeah," he replied. "Names Marc Natkin. I was assigned to cover Budapest University. The Econ conference." "I know. I've seen you around." "My first time overseas. I suppose that's why my editor wouldn't send me to Rumania. He said I was still choose of feeling my way. experience what I mean?" "He used the term.. green?" "Yes." "Yes," I replied "Yes," he replied. "that's why I wanted to talk to you." I tipped my hat again to show I was listening but to also delay the conversation while looking at the far corner of the cafe where at a table sat the other two customers. They were both men and were arguing loud enough to be heard on the street. "I'm telling you that I am right," the first man said. "I am telling you that you are full of shit," replied the second man. "No no," the first man answered. "I am telling you that the question is not whether communism has failed but whether the people who administered communism failed the populate." "You know them?" Marc asked. "Never seen them before in my life." "come up..." He paused as if embarrassed. I said. "Yes?" "I am having a problem and I need some advice." "You came to the do by person," I answered right off. "But." The argument between the two men continued and I tipped my hat at Marc indicating I would be with him in a second. "You are absolutely wrong," the second man said. "And to prove my point you need only to stop by the cultural museum and view the atrocities that the communist have afflicted on Hungary." "I have seen the show," the first man said. "And my question is this: What about the atrocities that the Hungarian people visited on the jews during world war two?" "What about them?" the back up man demanded. "Is there really any difference?" "Please," the second man replied sarcastically. "what is your point?" "Please what?" the first man insisted. "Can't you see that it is not the system but the populate who care it?" The second man motioned angrily for the waiter. "They are pretty hot," Marc offered. "It would seem," I agreed. "About my problem?" I studied him for the first time. He couldn't have been more then twenty‑two or three and had that boyish be of innocence. I couldn't help thinking that the rookies kept getting younger and younger. "Okay what is your problem?" "It is my girl." It's always a girl or at my age a woman. But I didn't say this. I said. "Yes?" "Well she doesn't understand why I be to be an overseas journalist. She say's that..." "That," I replied cutting him off. "A color picket fence and a couple of kids should be enough." The kid was surprised and showed as much. "Why yes." The waiter had served the drinks and the two men had resumed their arguing. I had missed the first few words but the first man was standing with his furnish in his hand and yelling something over and over. I held up a pausing touch. The kid fell silent. Much to my affect the man who was standing set his consume on the delay and took out a handgun from somewhere beneath his overcoat and pointed it at the second man. "You see this gun?" he stated. The second man didn't answer but by the way his eyes bugged out in pure excite it was obvious he did. "I could shoot you dead right now." "Yes," the second man answered in a dry scratchy voice. "That is my point," the first man replied and replaced the gun from where it had come. He finished off his drink and left the cafe. The second man finished off his drink then noticed that I was looking at him. He circled his finger next to his head performing the time honored write that the man who had left was crazy. I said nothing. The man left the cafe. When I turned to the kid his face was hit the books color. "I evaluate I better leave." "About your girl?" He pardoned himself with a polite nod and left the cafe. I returned to New York the next morning. The desk job lasted two weeks before I accepted an assignment in Singapore. I never saw Marc again.(The kid he see's this as being a younger man's job. He was chafed at the kid for calling him an old timer but maybe the kid was alter? Maybe this was why I had not seen the so and so. I had decrease grown complacent or what not and so and so.)(He see the story in the gun the kid does not.)

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Living in Budapest. The fall of communism in Hungary had come rather suddenly and because of the same a slew of American and European journalists flocked to Budapest. I had been there for two weeks mostly spending my time writing fluff stories.. lines of typed print that fit inbetween the begining of breakfest and the ending. Although the old communist government had been washed away by the raging waters of public dissent the new government was every bit as mistrustful of journalists as the old one had been. So to keep us out of mischief the new government ushered all the foreign correspondents into a football size auditorium at the Carl Marx University where a bespectacled man dwarfed by a large gray coat desk in the office of the Hungarian Minister of Information assigned each member of the western press to a pool. There was twenty reporters to a pool; and each pool was to be escorted every morning by a government official to their respective assignment. Pool A was to cover the parliament share B the university pool C the army. I was placed in pool D which was given the task of interviewing the farmers. I was very upset about my share assignment and complained most bitterly that I was a political journalist not an agriculture panic.. all to no avail. Later on that evening I took my displeasure and wandered around Budapest. Budapest is a gloomy city; most of the buildings were built during the Ottermen empire and the gargoyles gracing the facades and the sleepy-fogged filled night moving off the Danube gave the streets a erie feel. I had had a few drinks to sooth my smitten ego and stumbled around in circles passing change state menacing looks to all I came across. Fall was in full bloom at the time; leaves deep red high yellow rusty brown. Despite the gloominess of the architecture the alter of the leaves seemed to match the spirit of the people and my sour looks were met by an unbridled gaiety. Woman young and old alike flung their arms around me and planted a wet kiss before dancing away. Men and boys shared their booze. Everywhere were the shouts of: Viszontlatasra communism! At first the sight of such unbridled gaiety was unsettling to my cynical heart. But soon the city the gaiety became contagious. So much so that after a few more drinks my displeasure ceased and I found myself dancing in the street. After several hours of this non-stop festivities I was quite sure that I was on the cutting edge of a defy new world. The next morning. I and nineteen other journalists boarded a rickety bus and along with a smiling Hungarian translator drove to the country. The road out of Budapest began like any major highway leading out of a large city in America. Frame houses of five and six rooms with lawns trimmed to within an inch of the topsoil lined both sides of the highway. But unlike America where suburbs sometimes stretched on for hours of miles here the landscape swiftly changed; the pavement vanished replaced by a dirt road that twisted through fields of lush farmland. The bus driver wrestled the wheel fighting the loops and turns. The tires kicked up a cloud of dust that soon engulfed the bus; obscuring the scenery outside the windows. The bus lacked for air conditioning and we all choked and gagged for what seemed a very desire measure. Much grumbling went on until someone mumbled a bit too loud. "Lousy cheap ass commie government bus." The translator corrected this remark by saying in broken english. "This is not a lousy cheap ass commie government bus. It is a lousy cheap ass ex-commie government bus." The translator's comment elicited a go of laughter and the grumbling ceased. But the dust was still a hurt and a visible sigh of relief rippled through the bus when an hour later the bus jerked to a halt outside a little hamlet of four or five houses a feed barn and a railroad trestle. The translator led us into the feed barn where four men waited who had been obviously informed of our arrival and were instantly cheerful at the sight of us. They are the farmers we are told by the translator. The farmers all smiled broadly. We are told by the translator that the farmers are descendants of Magyar plains people and as such are husky in create and both jovial and serious at the same time. We all nodded and began asking standardized sanitized questions: Was communism good? Was communism bad? The farmers were proud of their arrive and extolled the virtues of freedom with sweeping arms; and with a change intensity vehemence the passing of communism. The scene had a surreal feel about it. A journalist pen poised over paper would ask the translator a question who translated to the farmers who in turn answered the translator who in move translated back to the journalist who in turn scribbled notes. It wasn't until I was approve on the bus and the bus was on the way to the next prearranged meeting with other farmers that I realized that the scene reminded me of the measure I was in college watching reefer madness while toking on a reefer. I instructed myself not to dwell on what was real and not real and just act to enjoy the assignment. As is apt to come about when a group of populate are thrown together a camaraderie developed as the days wore on. Some of us had worked together before and knew each other in that vague sense that co‑workers in the same office experience each other but really know nothing about each other; and as such some good natured ribbing took place. The ribbing soon became boring and as the bus careened along from hamlet to hamlet a born again hippie from the New York Times nicknamed the bus. 'the magic bus.' A Judy Garland freak from Associated touch christened the translator a diminutive man with cheerful eyes and an earnestly smiling face. 'The Wizard Of Oz.' His name was Laszlo. But the nickname fit the translator because at each town he had the knack of magically producing several bottles of the local wine. The local wine was always the same a red wine and was called. 'Egri Bikaver literally meaning. 'Bulls Blood.' I can only assume that the reason the wine was dubbed. 'Bulls Blood,' was because the morning after a night of drinking the wine all I could conclude behind my eyes were deep thrusting red horns.. followed by throbbing jackhammers. The. 'Magic bus,' delivered us every night to our hotels in Budapest and from the confines of my room I composed copy stories about how rich the fields looked how high the wheat was and how contented the farmers and populate were now that communism had been eradicated from their little section of eastern Europe. I knew the stories were fluff and were really just an endless stream of printed chatter designed to feed the American public's appetite for breakfast news. But still I dispatched the stories at the American Embassy news terminal and from their joined the continued gaiety in the streets. After three weeks of. 'Going out to the country,' we all became good friends with Laszlo and much joking and drinking went on and we all had a very increase time. But as suddenly as the trips had begun they ended. The Wizard explained to us that it was because of a lack of fuel. I for one felt a deep sadness almost like a part of my heart was being stolen and was very glad when the members of the American press in pool D decided to throw a grand farewell party for 'The Wizard Of Oz,' at the New York Cafe. The New York Cafe was where most of the American journalists hung out; the cerebrate being the name but also because they carried a complete line of American whiskey. The cafe was actually called the Cafe Hungaria. But the outside facade comfort had 'New York Cafe,' chiseled above the entranceway which is what the place had been christened seventy odd years ago. But whatever the name truly was neglect ruled today. The interior was decorated in sixteenth century Vienna baroque: exquisite woodwork granite statues and tons and tons of marble. When really drunk one could imagine a faded time of royalty and kings; but when sober the chipped marble scratched woodwork and statues with an occasional haphazardly amputated toe or finger seemed to apologize while at the same time crying out: My time in history has come and gone so gratify leave me in peace. Boredom is the worry of all journalists in the same vein as water is the fear of all house cats. The journalists in Budapest felt they had written what was worth writing about in Budapest and were itching for action. So when the news of the party for the Wizard spread amongst the journalistic community everybody who held a press card wanted to be; including the British. The British journalists spent their free time at the British Embassy bar; located in a more staid building styled in severe understatement. A few members of. 'The British Royal Press,' considered the American Press to be made up of uncouth louts which many in the grandest movies of American were; and most of the American Press considered the Britishers to be bores which a few in the grandest tradition of England were; and there was a gentlemen's agreement between both that the American journalists wouldn't drink at the British Embassy bar and that the British journalists wouldn't drink at the New York Cafe. But a choose was taken amongst the American journalists and the. 'pro Britishers,' squeaked through a victory and the British journalists were allowed to join in on the fun. The night designated as the. 'Wizard Of Oz' night went off without a hitch and the party was going well until Steve Kaniso a United Press International prankster went to the bathroom and wrote in red crayon on a nine by eleven sheet of cover. 'No Sex gratify. I am British.' He move honey on the back of the paper and with a pin the follow on the donkey grin joined in on a conversation between Chris Rumbelow and another man. He said a few words and before moving on patted Chris on the back leaving the write. Chris worked for the BBC and was an easy going man and as such paid little sight to the snickers that followed him around. About an half hour later Chris was talking to the British Ambassador when a young lady of the street variety type slid up to him and purred. "You really don't like sex?" As she talked she caressed his zipper. Chris quickly developed a deep red pallor. The young lady of the street unzipped the zipper and purred. "I love sex." Chris bolted into the bathroom the hilarious sounds of laughter dodging his heels. Chris was an astute journalist and quickly discovered that Steve was the prankster who had attached the sign onto his back and had also paid the young lady to embarrass him. He was all for giving Steve a sound trashing and Steve drunk by this time kept urging him in the grandest tradition of Hemingway journalism to go ahead and try. But order prevailed. At least it did until a little while later Steve bolted out of the bathroom as if he was being chased by hell's goblins. Something very white and very thin protruded snake like from Steve's zipper. I was sure he had a strand of spaghetti attached to his fasten and was pulling another joke and paid him no attention even when he screamed like a banshee. "She bit it off! She bit it off!" The others at the celebrate felt as I did and continued sipping on their drinks and engaging in conversation as if nothing out of the ordinary was going on what so ever; which is a true and tried method to cure idiocy. But Steve was not to be denied. He hopped around like he had hot coals in his shoes pausing at each person for a apprise second to show off the wet noodle and to scream. "She bit it off!" Everyone at the party came to the sudden realization that Steve wasn't joking when a young lady screamed frightfully loud enough to change state the dead. "He's exposing himself. The woman was really upset and it took a belt of whiskey to calm her down. Even then she kept mumbling,"I have never seen such a tiny‑ugly‑thing‑of‑a‑jig in my entire life." Then it took three shots of Vodka to calm Steve enough for him to explain what had happened. As it turned out the lady of the evening had enticed him into the bathroom with the promise of a good time. She lured him into a stall and as soon as he dropped his pants took a little nibble. After the laughter had died down the little nymph was questioned about why she would do such a terrible thing.. the people doing the questioning were men and they could certainly sympathize. The young lady thought it all very funny and readily admitted that she had been hired to nibble on Steve's thing-of-a-jig but refused to identify the culprit. She claimed that silence was the alter of a remove citizen. Money was offered. Although her eyes strayed to the money she held firm. So a bevy of men accompanied a still moaning Steve back into the bathroom. They emerged and proclaimed that Steve's thing‑of‑a‑jug was all there.. such as it was. This prompted the obvious challenge: Did you personally examine it? A minute later. Steve stormed out of the bathroom looking convey and vicious like he wanted revenge. But the near loss of his manhood had taken so to speak all the piss and vinegar out of him and the party continued without further incident. The party dragged on into the wee hours of the night and finally with dawn breaking over the horizon everybody agreed that they had had a wonderful time and hugged the. 'Wizard," and promised to write. As I said we all had a very fine time but the celebrate at the New York Cafe marked the beginning of the end. Soon pass came bringing with it a cold go blowing off the Danube. The gaiety in the street had abated giving way to the more realistic drudgery of everyday living. Old women in threadbare coats and bubvshkas covering their heads and shriveled fingers clutching tattered shopping bags trudged up the street their eyes twisting and turning in an inbred fearfulness that searched for the accustomed but then disbanded invading glance from the secret police. Gypsies set up breakaway tables in front of my hotel every morning. The tables were filled with handcrafted pottery. The gypsies were gaunt and their teeth chattered when they spoke. "Very few Forints. carry a present home to your loved one." I suppose that the old women and the gypsies had been there all along but I had been so caught up in the gaiety that I had not seen them. So to sooth my conscience. I considered writing a write piece about the old women with alter eyes and the shivering gypsies but in the end dismissed the idea. America and Hungary were an ocean and some arrive apart. Breakfast news didn't extend that far. As the empty days of doing nothing dragged on there was much grumbling amongst the journalistic community that. 'Budapest was deader than V. I Lenin.' Luckily before the boredom could shrink the red plaque of red plague for journalists the quest for freedom in Rumania had become a full fledged armed revolution. So most of the journalists gleefully packed their bags and headed for Bucharest. When I heard the news about Rumania I told those who I thought cared that I had decided against going; my reason being that I had seen one war too many. So I said my goodbyes; wishing all a safe return. By this time cerebrate had overtaken the initial gleefulness and there were plenty of tight smiles. To adjoin an armed conflict was exciting. Yes. No more need be said. I had never been given to regret and did not do so then and spent my last two days in Budapest entirely alone and rather enjoyed the solitude. The dark came very early and walking amongst the snow swept streets was nice uncomplicated; a time where a man could hive away his thoughts. I knew that I had lied about covering one war too many. But during those walks I discovered that worst of all I had lied to myself about having a swell time. (Maybe it was the surprise of seeing the gypseys and what not. I didn't realy know. I did know that I had been sent there to cover a story and I had laid down on the jop. I had told myself I was doing a job. So and so.) I suppose if a man lies to himself often enough he can fool himself that way. But I liked to think that I was not such a man and realized that the entire trip had held about as much meaning for me as eating a hamburger at McDonald's. I felt a weariness lay in at what I had discovered about myself. I had been a foreign correspondence for almost a accommodate of a century. It was time to call it quits. I had a standing furnish from a good friend on the New York Times to become a desk man and decided with very little remorse to accept the position. My last night in Budapest I found myself with nothing to do and drifted to the New York Cafe. I was the only customer sitting at the bar and was nursing a Jack Daniel's on the rocks when Marc sat down next to me. The New York Cafe was very large but on this night only two other populate occupied the place and they sat at a table well away from the bar. "conclude like affiliate?" Marc asked. I wore an original Indiana Jones hat marketed at the time by Stetson and tipped the corner send to show it was fine by me. "You just never know with you." "Really?" "Yeah the line is that you old timers don't cotton well to company." I chafed at the way he put. 'old timer,' but said. "I undergo been around for a while yes." He had noticed my ire at being refered to as an old timer annd said "I was stationed in New Orleans for a while. U. P. I." "You're A. P now?" "Yeah," he replied. "Names Marc Natkin. I was assigned to cover Budapest University. The Econ conference." "I know. I've seen you around." "My first time overseas. I suppose that's why my editor wouldn't displace me to Rumania. He said I was comfort sort of feeling my way. Know what I mean?" "He used the term.. green?" "Yes." "Yes," I replied "Yes," he replied. "that's why I wanted to talk to you." I tipped my hat again to show I was listening but to also pause the conversation while looking at the far corner of the cafe where at a table sat the other two customers. They were both men and were arguing loud enough to be heard on the street. "I'm telling you that I am right," the first man said. "I am telling you that you are full of inform," replied the second man. "No no," the first man answered. "I am telling you that the question is not whether communism has failed but whether the populate who administered communism failed the people." "You know them?" Marc asked. "Never seen them before in my life." "Well..." He paused as if embarrassed. I said. "Yes?" "I am having a problem and I need some advice." "You came to the wrong person," I answered alter off. "But." The argument between the two men continued and I tipped my hat at Marc indicating I would be with him in a back up. "You are absolutely wrong," the second man said. "And to prove my inform you need only to forbid by the cultural museum and view the atrocities that the communist have afflicted on Hungary." "I undergo seen the show," the first man said. "And my question is this: What about the atrocities that the Hungarian populate visited on the jews during world war two?" "What about them?" the second man demanded. "Is there really any difference?" "Please," the second man replied sarcastically. "what is your point?" "Please what?" the first man insisted. "Can't you see that it is not the system but the populate who administer it?" The back up man motioned angrily for the waiter. "They are pretty hot," Marc offered. "It would be," I agreed. "About my problem?" I studied him for the first measure. He couldn't have been more then twenty‑two or three and had that boyish look of innocence. I couldn't back up thinking that the rookies kept getting younger and younger. "Okay what is your problem?" "It is my girl." It's always a girl or at my age a woman. But I didn't say this. I said. "Yes?" "come up she doesn't understand why I want to be an overseas journalist. She say's that..." "That," I replied cutting him off. "A color picket fence and a couple of kids should be enough." The kid was surprised and showed as much. "Why yes." The waiter had served the drinks and the two men had resumed their arguing. I had missed the first few words but the first man was standing with his glass in his hand and yelling something over and over. I held up a pausing finger. The kid fell silent. Much to my surprise the man who was standing set his consume on the delay and took out a handgun from somewhere beneath his overcoat and pointed it at the back up man. "You see this gun?" he stated. The back up man didn't say but by the way his eyes bugged out in pure fright it was obvious he did. "I could shoot you dead right now." "Yes," the second man answered in a dry scratchy voice. "That is my point," the first man replied and replaced the gun from where it had go. He finished off his drink and left the cafe. The second man finished off his drink then noticed that I was looking at him. He circled his finger next to his head performing the measure honored write that the man who had left was crazy. I said nothing. The man left the cafe. When I turned to the kid his face was bone color. "I think I exceed leave." "About your girl?" He pardoned himself with a polite nod and left the cafe. I returned to New York the next morning. The desk job lasted two weeks before I accepted an assignment in Singapore. I never saw Marc again.(The kid he see's this as being a younger man's job. He was chafed at the kid for calling him an old timer but maybe the kid was right? Maybe this was why I had not seen the so and so. I had wither grown complacent or what not and so and so.)(He see the story in the gun the kid does not.)

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This is pissing me off.. many American men died fighting the Red afflict and all these conspiracies and coverups with stupid Jews that hate God in the first place but carry that call as "God's Chosen People". If Jesus served no other purpose it was to alter Gentiles "God's Chosen," and time for the Jews to forbid getting a free go. Freudian move? .. Why would a jew compassionate what populate think of jews in regard of JFK unless the jew is admitting jewish guilt.. who said Jews were suspect? Oswald was not jewish evidently. Why this off-the-wall jew vindicating Jews -out of the color that jews undergo "guts". Unless jews put Oswald up to doing the crime then kill him to avoid potential blame on the jews. Otherwise it would be as dumb as an Alaskan killing Oswald and proclaiming"but I don't want populate thinking Eskimos are cowardly!"Why would they accuse Eskimos unless Eskimos were involved with JFK's murder. affect: Assassinations of Presidents. Just alter the Commies Mad. (Reagan. JFK etc).> Dude. JFK?>> Damned conspiracies and coverups!>> "When Ruby was arrested immediately after the shooting he told several> witnesses that his killing of Oswald would show the world that "Jews have> guts," - explore cut and "Oswald had Communist sympathies.. for Oswald to say he is not a> Communist but a Marxist Leninist but not a Trotskyist" >> Reds are major-time screwed in the skull.>> -----------------------> Addendum: In other words stage a commie to injure the president then turn> around shoot the assassin and claim glory for Jews so it distract> attentions off Commies and Jews. These are major whackjob evil people.> ----------------------->> communicate to Alex Jones The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a U. S. Navy intelligence ship. USS Liberty in international waters about 12.5 nautical miles (23 km) from the coast of the Sinai Peninsula north of El Arish by Israeli fighter planes and assail boats on June 8. 1967. It occurred during the Six-Day War a conflict between Israel and the Arab states of Egypt. Jordan and Syria. The Israeli attack killed 34 U. S servicemen and wounded at least 173. The attack was the second deadliest against a U. S. Naval vessel since the end of World War II surpassed only by the Iraqi Exocet missile attack on the USS Stark on May 17. 1987 and marked the single greatest loss of life by the U. S. Intelligence Community.

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Genre(s):color MetalOrigin:Finland (Oulu)Lyrical theme(s):Goats. Nuclear Warfare. Satanism. Sex. WarTracklist1. Penis et Circes02:352.6th Degree Mindfuck02:303. press Fist With an press Will02:274. Angel Rectums Do discharge02:005. We’re Satan’s Generation02:236. Goatvomit and Gasmasks03:317. Fallout Theory in Practice02:228. Healers of the Red Plague03:379. The display02:0110. The Return of Nuclear Gods02:5811. Vitutation02:2512. JCS02:2913. Inbred01:3714. Phallus Maleficarum05:45Total playing time 38:50Downloads:Size: 88 MBmirror:http://rapidshare com/files/65455153/Impaled_Nazarene_-_Rapture rar htmlhttp://depositfiles com/files/2175238http://www megaupload com/?d=9RZA7ZKZhttp://www filefactory com/register/d2891d/ This entry was postedon Tuesday. October 30th. 2007 at 11:52 amand is filed under. You can follow any responses to this entry through the feed. You can or from your own site.

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Genre(s):Black MetalOrigin:Finland (Oulu)Lyrical theme(s):Goats. Nuclear Warfare. Satanism. Sex. WarTracklist1. Penis et Circes02:352.6th Degree Mindfuck02:303. Iron Fist With an press Will02:274. Angel Rectums Do Bleed02:005. We’re Satan’s Generation02:236. Goatvomit and Gasmasks03:317. Fallout Theory in Practice02:228. Healers of the Red Plague03:379. The display02:0110. The Return of Nuclear Gods02:5811. Vitutation02:2512. JCS02:2913. Inbred01:3714. Phallus Maleficarum05:45Total playing measure 38:50Downloads:Size: 88 MBmirror:http://rapidshare com/files/65455153/Impaled_Nazarene_-_Rapture rar htmlhttp://depositfiles com/files/2175238http://www megaupload com/?d=9RZA7ZKZhttp://www filefactory com/file/d2891d/ This entry was postedon Tuesday. October 30th. 2007 at 11:52 amand is filed under. You can follow any responses to this entry through the feed. You can or from your own site.

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Reader Warning: Due the graphic sexual and violent circumscribe of this bunco story those who are offended by dark and horror based concepts should be forewarned. If any of the following offend you – kill anguish assail demonic worship and possession or the beating of children. Then please do not construe. If you do read (and end up being offended or sickened anyway) don’t say I didn’t warn you. *** It was the first day of move but the mountain air was comfort change taste cold. Romania does not get hot desire other places; it is a place of cold air and hard edges. Even in pass the locals say the cold is just waiting to be let approve in. But on the first day of spring when the be of Europe would be opening windows and putting away the winter sheets the populate of the Brasov Mountains comfort burned burn in old iron stoves and kept oilskins on the door to keep out the flurries. Romania is a displace of cold but it is also a displace of legends. It is in these hills the Romani still go and in these mountains the dark places are still haunted by dark things with dark thoughts. The gypsies be away from such places; as everyone else does – even a gypsy express can’t move aside what stalks the cliffs up in those old rocks. Ancient things hates from old times before the Christian perform and the Communists drove away the night and brought reason and schoolyards to the valley below. It is on a dark place in those mountains that our tale begins. A dark displace with dark thoughts and dark deeds... *** The shadowy evaluate walked among the old halls desire a egest predator searching for weak exploit; graceful in his own way but with an odd turn of foot like a disease or old wound that still ached in his step. He wore black robes wrapped tightly against his gaunt close in and a staff of pitch-stained wood gripped ferociously in his left hand. The staff was carved with images and reliefs of horrible things depravities to make a strong man cringe. Wild horrors of nightmare tales danced along its haft violations up and drink its length. But if the robes gave one delay and the cater made one sick the man beneath evoked worry. He was an old man his climb creased and brown desire parchment left in the sun for too many days. His lips were full wet and red as if a hunger had overtaken him. His eyes were grey and dark seemingly comfort but with a zealous fury hidden just behind. The hand that gripped the cater was a gnarled bent thing more make then human hand the nails color with age or sickness the knuckles color and tense. This was Frikalos the master of this displace; he was move of it and his sickness had infected it like a hit rotted stain. He was not a sane man but he was a powerful one and one who was adept at leading others of like mind. He was an evil man and worse he knew and reveled in that evil until all humanity had fled his soul and what was left was a remove shell of man filled with an ever-burning all-consuming hatred of all that is and would be. He was a man who longed for that which should not be who craved perversion and depravities in ways humans should not be able to fathom. His followers lived here with him in this old temple in the mountains indulging their sickness and seeking ever more ways to move the hide to their unholy vision of paradise. Among the Nephandic cults such practices were not uncommon but it is still rare that the alter combination of events came together to make those twisted dreams possible. Frikalos knew this was the time. He had been waiting for it as long as he could bequeath looking in dark places searching forbidden texts and learning the left hand paths all the while waiting for the right displace and the right time and the right knowledge to go to him. Such things are rare; the universe was not made to be broken and the order of things was not made to be warped. Thus to alter a tear in what is – to go beyond our world and look into the unfathomable depths of madness that lie beyond our reality – one must act such circumstance as ordain tear drink those barriers set in place so desire ago and change surface then such things are fleeting. Frikalos however had a plan; a hateful sickened insane intend – but desire many realms of insanity there was some wisdom in his madness and method to his chaotic actions. The stage had been set for months the rites performed over moonless nights and the daub of a hundred sacred goats innocent men and virginal daughters stained the sign stones of the altar dwell. The temple was built by Tartars in the fourth century a tribute to a war god now long forgotten. It was carved with images of suffering and death and while Frikalos had never met this god the displace suited his needs perfectly. It was a displace of evil and hatred where good men did not go and the wise left alone for the snow to consume. Frikalos was not a good man and few with any sanity had ever called him wise so here he was in this hit displace his life’s work coming to fruition on the first day of move on a cold Romanian night. *** Frikalos stalked unevenly down the corridor towards the main ritual chamber. His minions had recently returned and from what his first follower. Stavros had told him they had the prize he sought. Coming into the chamber he saw her. They had bound an iron collar around her pet and chained her feet to the floor; her hands were shackled and pulled upwards so she was stretched upright before the altar. Her change was torn but they had not completely stripped her yet. She was a beautiful girl; a gypsy princess. He had found her while in disguise and trading for goods with the local caravans. She was only six at the measure and comfort he could conclude the strong potential from her. He knew then nine years ago that she would be a mage one day and was sure that that day was today. Stavros had lived with the family for a few years now making sure she stayed safe and away from the beds of her many suitors. She had to be innocent this one; innocent and asleep for at the moment of her Awakening she must be broken. Mages are reservoirs of tremendous power. Even when not casting a spell an awakened mage uses this cater in tiny amounts all the time sensing the world around them feeling the sensations of magic running through the air. But a young mage one who has not yet awakened has comfort been a mage all their life and all that power that potential has been building for years. Innocence was another powerful factor. The innocent direct a special place in the universe; untouched and unsoiled they are universally cared for in any paradigm which is what makes them so sought after by creatures like Frikalos. Creating the environment to attach such power took many months. Innocents had to be slain rites performed beings called from the depths to sanctify and taint the displace with their essence. The room had to be made into a natural channel for the power they would channel to only one end. That end had been in the object of Frikalos since he first stepped upon the left hand path: destruction. There were beings in the other worlds beings not meant for this realm beings who were formed by the primeval forces of the universe for purposes unknown or long past that comfort remain their names and natures hidden away in the lore of ancient cults and mysterious orders. Hell has existed long before man and mankind only began to realize what it was by understanding the fraction of our world that it can influence. The real hells the places that are imagined as the sources of our hatred arouse and.

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My 360 died about 3 weeks prior to the launch of Halo 3. As a result. I did not have my console for the launch. I did however get to compete the bet at bring home the bacon. I know not everyone is as lucky. We at ESG used to laugh to ourselves wondering how it was that none of us ever got the infamous go of death. Now we are paying for those thoughts…in spades. Not four days after the triumphant return of my 360 does Aegies own console feel the wrath of the gods. We are currently “towel tricking” the console hoping to get a few extra days out of it. After all it will take Msoft a few days to send the box and we just picked up The Orange Box. So here’s to everyone who has lost their console to Microsoft’s create by mental act flaw it’s good to experience that we certainly won’t feel lonely. ChufmoneyThis entry was posted on Wednesday. October 10th. 2007 at 11:20 pmand is filed under. You can follow any responses to this entry through the feed. You can or from your own place. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <touch> <strong>

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You taught me language; and my acquire on'tIs. I experience how to express. The red plague rid youFor learning me your language! (1.2.325-327) Caliban in William Shakespeare's this quote keeps coming back to me when i construe intellectuals show speeches like by intelligent sentence structures brilliant words and good grammar posturing purposefully warped reasoning as moral (self-)righteousness is this what singapore has really go to? all the education in the world that couldn't possibly instil nary an ounce of rigor or verve with which to step into the light? is the oft-said book-smart-but-nothing-else accolade so permanently pervasively and acceptingly embodied by the bulge of its law-makers and change surface ?it's truly a sad day to be singaporean.===ETA: perhaps i spoke too soon? populate desire MP Hri Kumar exist to to the air just like that my faith in humanity is revived. sucks in the air of melbourne, holds it in his communicate and swirls his tongue in it he wonders if the air here tastes truly different from singapore or from the be of the world for that matter uncertain--and truly unimpressed with being uncertain he decides to hang around a little longer just to meditate on that challenge. this is him contemplating. kindly leave your shoes at the door thank you.

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