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137. They were trapped. Commandos with automatic rifles occupied the building. Doyle quickly logged in to get a damage assessment. Fritz advised the next move: resign.

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Book Two: The Sicilian Gambit

Chapter 1. The Deal
Chapter 2. The Struggle for Power
Chapter 3. Power and Glory

Chapter 4. Epilogue

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138. The Holy See received the visitor from the Commission of La Cosa Nostra, who brought a very nice gift of a box of chocolates. The Holy See heard his confession, which lasted 37 hours, and granted absolution for a substantial pennance.

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139. Oliver Stone and Michael Moore both bid on the movie rights. Oliver Stone wanted to inject a CIA-FBI-KGB-Hamas-NSC-Moussad-Holywood-Disneyworld conspiracy into the plotline. Michael Moore was planning on having a Bush-Blair twist on the plot.

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140. Kevin Costner and Eddie Murphy were vying for the role of Doyle. Angelina Jolie believed that she WAS Sheila. The role of La Bella Donna would almost certainly go to Jessica Alba, after she delivers her baby. Halle Berry was being considered for the role, however.

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141. MissOleum ruled that engine use could not be proved.

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142. Dick Cheney ordered the IRS to audit Maggie's tax returns.

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143. Hershey and Mars stocks opened up 2.75.

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Book Three.

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Book Three

VARIATIONS

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1. In the stream of the quantum foam that shapes the wholeness of all things, the Dream began to dream.

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2. In the West and in the East, in times before and times to come, in the spaces of history, on the faces of those who've gone and those who're yet unborn... In India and Persia and across the electric stormy seas, in correspondence strung along, in machine like expertise. In variants and vagabonds, in the red hot spectra of the lattice board of years, pawns resigned to fate and destiny as the thinking machine appears.

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3. And NOW... from where I lay, between the sheets of the envelope in which I dream. The clock ticks by and I shade my eyes from the ghastly glow of screens within my mind. And every time, I dream in all directions of the trillion ways to death or victory. I am in awe from the deepness of wonder of the many things. And I begin to realize that I am the King, the tyrant and the glory, held in the bondage of her radiating power and tenderness. And I began to see deeper. Yet in the rolling froth of my thoughts, in all my wanderings, in all the variations of time and space, somehow I knew, ...as I have always known, ...as if it were already written, the path through the garden that would lead me back home.

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4. Call me Fritz.

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5. And Fritz heard and saw and understood it all, and would, if Fritz could, have smiled in awe, granting the wish, the wish of dreams, dreams inside dreams, of what might be. Ye shall have your wish granted to be, dear pawn, with dreams of glory to be, and now, go forth, into the world, make your move, e4, to explore, all that lies ahead, so see if thy glory is, to be.

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