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Charles Jackson
The Lost Weekend
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338073679
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Part One
THE START
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"The barometer of his emotional nature was set for a spell of riot."
These words, on the printed page, had the unsettling effect no doubt intended, but with a difference. At once he put the book aside: closed it, with his fingers still between the pages; dropped his arm over the edge of the chair and let it hang, the book somewhere near the floor. This in case he wanted to look at it again. But he did not need to. Already he knew the sentence by heart: he might have written it himself. Indeed, it was with a sense of familiarity, of recognition, that his mind had first read through and accepted that sentence only a moment before; and now, as he relaxed his fingers' grip and dropped the book to the floor, he said aloud to himself: "That's me, all right." The book hit the rug with a soft thump and the Scottie looked up from its basket. "You heard me, Mac," he called out. "That's what I said!" He glared at the sleepy dog and added, loudly, burlesquing his fear and his delight: "It's me they're talking about. Me!"