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UNITED STATES A dismal jolt shook L.A.’s cinephilic community last week when the Pacific Theater Corporation announced that it had choked during the locked-down as a result of the COVID economy. It was a bracing jolt of reality, a reflection of families and individuals beyond measure, who endure unimaginable pain in silence due to the unprecedented pandemic shutdown, in the midst of a giddy reawakening. Now to their pain is added the betrayal felt by film lovers and the Los Angeles based movie theater chain’s employees, who have been terminated.
“This was not the outcome anyone wanted,” a corporate bulletin drily announced.
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UNITED STATES Have you ever got exactly what you wanted? Then you’ll know what I mean. I got exactly what I wanted, she was of independent means, encyclopedic knowledge, she had the answer for everything without being pedantic, loads of energy she’s able to go sometimes for three days without sleep. Loves dogs and doesn’t mind hair all over the place at least she doesn’t mention anything about it.
As if all those fine qualities weren’t enough, the meaning of her name (I looked it up in a book of names) left her sterling character insultingly obvious. Evangelina means good news. Once we had initiated this deep and deeply satisfying relationship, but also a deeply troubling one, I had to remind myself with a bitter smile: her name means good news. It’s in my face: this is good it’s really good or her unsinkable spirit wouldn’t be so obvious: she’s good news, for me, my friends, my profession, the world. And yet I’m nagged by the notion that eve
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UNITED STATES A pleasant beep informed Zorba that he was back in the reception zone. The wheels of digital time, that had ground to a halt during his time “up there” recommenced. Zorba synched up his eye rotors again, one sweeping horizontal motion of the eyes brought up the luminous green menu in the periphery of his vision. The former detective steeled himself for everything and nothing: either all was well or he was in the doghouse.
With toggling eyeball X motion from top left to lower right, from top right to lower left, he braced himself for a missed communication that would make him feel like the biggest moron on Earth. Then again he might hear from Sergeant Robbins and discover he’d been reinstated as a detective.
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UNITED STATES “As I said before, the killer saw something so traumatic that it triggered cognitive dissonance. He blotted it out of his mind or thought he was dreaming. What they saw before fleeing the crime was that the victim of the hammer-blow was someone identical to himself. Identical to the twin brother given up for adoption that the killer had no idea existed.
“You see,” Zorba concluded. “Identical twins have the same DNA and that is why you, according to treaty with the joint federation, received notice of the DNA finding.” Zorba in a pique of kamikaze daring and rage against all the cool interior developed thanks to his grandma. “So you must have plenty of eyes and ears in the Underground Cities, despite your proud technology-free self-sufficiency up here. You’re a regular Christmas tree with pill-pods stuck in your back. I was kidnapped and taken up here with one of those things stuck in my spine. It boils down to this,” Zorba said staring do
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UNITED STATES As Zorba resumed his story, he wished he could sharpen a few details. His itch to know why they were in the year 100 Twelvetrees would have to wait. The essential thing was to move on boldly with what sketchy hunches he had. The pencil is always in love with the sharp point, but often enough the blunt point is good enough to finish the job. frightened
The family’s hopes frightened him; they craved a savior for this man so far gone. To Zorba’s trained eye he knew that the pallor and round belly signified a damaged liver struggling under a bad load of toxins, being unable to rid the body of it. The strict code of primitive technologies forbade a machine to cleanse the blood.