A sound of thunder – Flashcards
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The sign on the wall
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What seemed ro quavee under the sliding water
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Time safari, inc. Safaris to any year in the past. You name an animal. We'll take you there. You shoot it.
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What did the sign on the wall say?
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he swallows hard before walking in He asks about a guarantee of life He debates ripping his check His arms tremble in the time machine
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What shows that eckels is nervous?
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$10,000
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How much money did he give to the man behind the desk?
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If the safari guaranteed he would come back alive?
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What does eckels ask the man at the front desk?
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We guarantee nothing except the dinosaurs
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What does the man respond to eckels question?
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Eckels Safari guide to the past
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Who was Travis?
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Another $10,000 dollars plus government action
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What is the penalty of disobeying instructions
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What and where to shoot
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What instructions does eckels have to follow
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A mass tangle of snaking and humming wires and steel boxes, and an aurora that flicked now orange now silver now blue
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Describe the office
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A gigantic bonfire burning all of time, all the years and all the parchment Flanders, all the hours piled high and set aflame
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What sound was there in the office?
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Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders, the old years, the green years, might leap; roses sweeten the air, white hair turn Irish black, wrinkles vanish; all everything fly back to seed, flee death, rush down to their beginnings, Suns rise in western skies and set in glorious easts, moons eat themselves opposite to the custom, all and everything cupping on in another like Chinese boxes, rabbits into hats, all and e rethink returning to the fresh death, the seed death, the green death, to the time before the beginning.
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What did the advertisements say
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Keith
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Who won the presidential election
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In the United States of America in 2055
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Where does the story take place?
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A dictator, militarist, anti Christ, anti human, anti intellectual
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What kind of person is deutscher
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A tyrannosaurus rex
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What does eckels want to shoot?
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Tyrant lizard king
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What does tyrannosaurus rex mean?
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To prepare him and make sure he won't panic
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Why does the company try and scare eckels
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6 safari leaders and a dozen hunters
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How many safari leaders were killed last year?
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60 million 2 thousands and 55 years
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How many years did they go back?
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A rifle
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What type of gun did eckels carry?
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4 other men excluding eckels
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How many men were in the machine?
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Travis's assistant
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Who was lesperance?
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Other hunters
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Who were billings and Kramer
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The brain
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Where do they plan on shooting the dinosaur
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Illinois
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What does this trip make Africa seem like?
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Blue
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What color are their guns?
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Christ, Moses, pyramids, Alexander, cause, Napoleon, Hoyle
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What doesn't exist?
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A metal path
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What is there for the men to stand on?
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6 inches
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How high does the path float?
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Anti gravity metal
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What is it made of
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NO
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Can the men go off the path
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Bird cries could be heard in the wind and the smell of tar and old salt sea, moist grasses, and flowers the color or blood
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Describe the environment
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The government
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Who doesn't like them in the past?
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They pay high bribes
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How did they convince the government to allow it?
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Step off the path-> kill a mouse-> families of that mouse dead-> then a dozen then a thousands and then a million mice die-> then the foxes that eat the mice for food die-> then when the fox dies a lion starves-> for a lion all insects, vultures, and other life forms are thrown in chaos-> fifty nine million years later a cave man goes hunting a boar or tiger for food but you have stepped on all the Tigers in that region by stepping on one mouse-> the cave man dies and he would have populated the earth
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State the example Travis gives on why they can't step of the path possible changing the future
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Shake our earths and destinies down through time, to their very foundations
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The stomp of your foot could start an earthquake who's effects could
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A billion others yet unborn in the womb, Rome never rises on 7 hills, Europe is forever a dark forest, and Asia waxes healthy and teeming
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With the death of that one cave man->
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Print, like s Grand Canyon across eternity.
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Step on a mouse and you leave your
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Like the Grand Canyon started out small and grew to a large river your footprint starts out small and grows with its effects
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What is symbolic about the quote Step on a mouse and you leave your Print, like s Grand Canyon across eternity.
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Just like stepping off the path in the story can lead to bad consequences, U.S. Stepping off of the good path of life, gods path can lead to consequences
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What is symbolic about the quote never stop off
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They are marked with red paint
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How do they know which animals to shoot?
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Lesperance
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Who marked the animals
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He picks ones who are going to die anyway and shoots them right before the die, marking the time and day in exact seconds
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How does Lesperance pick which animals to shoot?
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Did we make it back alive
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What does eckels ask Lesperance when he tells them he came this morning?
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Give each other a look (A LOOK OF WHAT? Sneaky? Fear?)
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What do Travis and Lesperance do?
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Time is a paradox
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What does Lesperance reply to eckels
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Pretending to shoot a pterodactyl
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What does Travis fuss eckels for?
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Travis, billings, Kramer
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Who got the first shot? The second shot? The third shot?
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Tiger, wild boar, buffalo, and an elephant
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What other animals has eckels shot?
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The sound of thunder
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What does the author say the walking of the t-Rex sounds like?
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30 ft above half the trees
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How tall was the t-rex
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Great oiled, resilient legs
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What were the t-Rex's legs like?
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It has watchmaker claws close to its chest Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in think ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior It had 2 dedicate arms with hands which he might pick up and examine men like toys, while the snake neck coiled Teeth like daggers It's eyes were the size of ostrich eggs, empty of all expression save hunger
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Describe the t-rex
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6 inch deep
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What sized prints did it leave in the dirt?
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He says it can't be shot and gets scared
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What happens when he sees the t-rex
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Back into the time machine and they'll remit half his fee
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Where does Travis tell him to go?
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Insects
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What was caught in the slim of the dino
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Raw meat
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What did it smell like when it exhaled?
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Off the path into the jungle
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Where does eckels step?
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100 yards
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How many yards the Dino cover in 6 seconds?
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In the t-Rex's eyes
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Where did the eyes see the men mirrored?
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The men to twist them in half, to crush them like berries, and cram them into its teeth and its creaming throat
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What did the t-Rex's hands reach for?
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Like an avalanche pulling trees and the path with him
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How did the t-Rex fall?
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Blood
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What drenched the hunters?
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Throw up
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What did billings and Kramer do?
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In the time machine after finding his way back to the path
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Where was eckels?
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The furthest chambers of it dying, the organs malfunctioning, liquids running a final instant from pocket, to sac, to spleen, everything g shutting off Bones cracked
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What could they hear inside the Dino?
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A tree falling
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What did the hear a few seconds after the t-Rex fell?
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So the insects, birds, and bacteria can get to it as they were intended to
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Why can't they bring the t-Rex back?
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No
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Do the men take a picture
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To get out of the machine and to stand in the path. That he wouldn't be coming home with them
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What does Travis tell eckels?
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No
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Does Lesperance agree with Travis?
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Because his shoes gave them away to the government (they would have to forfeit the business and may a lot of money)
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Why was Travis going to make him stay there?
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100,000 dollars
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What does eckels try and bride Travis with?
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Stick his hand in the t-Rex's mouth and dig the ballets out of it
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What does Travis tell him to do so he can come back?
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His arms soaked in blood and holding a number of steel bullets
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What did eckels return to the time machine with?
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Shoot him
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What does Travis say he'll do if eckels changed the time?
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The man say differently behind the desk
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What was different when they returned?
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Out and to never come back
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Where does Travis tell eckels to go after he returned?
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He's he notices it in the air, it was subliminal to his senses
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Does eckels notice something is different?
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Someone blowing a whistle only dogs can hear
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What does eckels compare this subliminal sensation do?
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The sign
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What had changed?
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Tyme Sefari inc. sefaris tu any yeer en the past. Yu naim the animall Wee taekyuthair. Yu shoot it.
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What did the sign say now?
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The butterfly caught in the dirt of his boots
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What does eckels notice immediately after the sign?
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A glistening green gold and black butterfly
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What was caught in his boots
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He immediately asks who won the election
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How does eckels react?
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Deutscher
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who won?
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Yes! We've got an iron man a man with guts
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Is the man behind the desk happy about this?
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Fool weakling
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What does the man say about Keith
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He moans and dropped to his knees. He clawed at the butterfly with shaking fingers
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How does eckels take the presidential news
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If they could go make and make it alive again
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What did eckels ask?
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We hear Travis shirting his rife and then we hear a sound of thunder
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How does the story end?
