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I can't believe nobody started a comment thread for this. As usual, Terry, you're fockin' brill. Blair lifted her hand from his wrist and thumped one finger against his temple.
“Hey! What was that for?”
“Just testing.”
“Testing for what?”
Blair nodded sagely. “Yep, just like I thought. You’re super-dense, too.” Yup, he is. “But that’s – that’s terminally stupid! That’s idiotic! That’s – “
“It’s any number of negative adjectives you could name, but you’re not going to change his mind. You’ll have to tough it out and wait for him to come around.”
Lois shook her head. “Surprisingly, that doesn’t make me feel any better.”
Catharine spoke as gently as she could. “I know, hon, but men are hard-headed and stubborn. They get an idea in their teeny-tiny little heads and they won’t change their minds until they think it’s their idea to change their ideas. You have to be patient with him, that’s all.” Yes, he's a lunkhead.
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Darn! Someone else started the thread while I was reading.
This was a really intense part. I'm not going to quote anything, partly because I still haven't figured out the easy way to do it but partly because there's just too much good stuff to quote.
And Clark is right in character. Anybody got a Kryptonite club to pound him over the head with?
More please.
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At the risk displaying my own lack of my own coolness, can someone please translate Dandello's comment? As usual, Terry, you're fockin' brill. I just hope that's a good thing.
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Terry, the part about Cath's testimony in court was incredibly moving. I almost gasped when I read it, and I felt myself tear up. I so, so hope that you will let Cath and her baby survive and come through this ordeal without additonal permanent injuries. I love the way you have written Cath in this story and in the one that came before it, The Maysonry of Life. And I groaned at Clark's lunkheadedness. I don't know if he was altogether honest here: He turned and faced her. “I don’t hold anyone responsible for this except myself.” He exhaled and dropped his shoulders. “If anyone’s at fault, it’s me.” Is that what he truly feels? Is he blaming no one but himself? I get the impression that, if nothing else, he seems to be taking out his frustration at his situation on Lois. Or is he truly tellng himself that he is distancing himself from her to protect her? “Yeah. It sounds to me like he’s trying to protect himself emotionally if the verdict goes against him.”
“So he’s putting distance between us to protect himself?”
“Yes. And he probably thinks you’ll feel less pain when he goes to jail if you two aren’t all that close.” I suppose this is true. However, Clark is being cold and insensitive to Lois. All right, I can understand that he is full of his own pain. Even so, I think he's being very selfish. Blair turned and faced him directly. “I think you got a serious problem chewin’ on the inside o’ your belly and it ain’t the trial.”
He held her gaze for a moment, then turned and faced forward. “Until the trial’s over, I can’t do anything about it.”
Blair gently touched his wrist with her long, slender fingers. “I think you’d better do something about it now, before you let things get too far out of hand.”
Connie leaned in and said, “Go talk to her. Tonight. Get your thoughts and feelings out in the open. Listen to her, and I mean really listen. Hear not only her words but her hopes and dreams.”
He frowned and slid down in his chair. “What makes you think this has anything to do with her?”
Blair lifted her hand from his wrist and thumped one finger against his temple.
“Hey! What was that for?”
“Just testing.”
“Testing for what?”
Blair nodded sagely. “Yep, just like I thought. You’re super-dense, too.” Sorry to quote all of this, but it's deliciously written! Go, Blair, go! And I hope Clark will take Blair's, Connie's and Cath's advice. I hope he will talk to Lois and consider her feelings too. All right - Lois is probably too wrapped up in her own pain, too, and not blameless, either. Oh well - I just hope they can both listen to one another! Ann
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As usual, Terry, you're fockin' brill. I just hope that's a good thing. Yes - In one of my stories on another board I've got a couple Irish characters. They swear, but they don't mean anything by it. The phrase translates loosely as 'brilliant'.
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Hi, Great part!  Jack stepped closer and waved his hands. “But bearing this child is dangerous for you. Why not eliminate that danger?”
The courtroom went silent as the import of his question sank in. Catharine’s brows drew down and she clenched her fists. “Because, Counselor, I refuse to allow Intergang to take anything else away from me. They took more than forty lives that night. I knew some of those people personally. They killed mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, aunts and uncles and friends and wives and husbands! They broke families! There are people still grieving because of what they did! I won’t let them have my baby too! I won’t!” She sobbed once and pounded the arm of her chair. “Do you understand that? I won’t let them take my baby’s life too!”
Shocked, Jack stepped back. He hesitated, thinking, then said, “No more questions, Your Honor.” Bravo! Love it. 
Maria D. Ferdez.
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Just a note to say I'm still reading and enjoying! Great story, Terry.
lisa in the sky with diamonds
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I think Clark's new middle name should be 'Lunkhead.' And thanks, Dandello, for the compliment!
And I see that Nan agrees with you. Hang in there, we still have several chapters of lunkheadedness to go.
Ann, I know you want these two to be together. Actually, so do I. If only there's enough love left between them after the trial to offer us that hope!
Maria, thanks for your comments. I'm glad you liked Reisman's cross-examination of Cath. There's some reaction to it in the next chapter, and I hope it satisfies anyone's legitimate outrage over the line of questioning.
Mrs. Mosely, thanks for reading! I'll take all the responses I can get! I hope you like the last few parts.
We're in the home stretch, but I think there are some surprises left. Let me know what you think.
Life isn't a support system for writing. It's the other way around.
- Stephen King, from On Writing
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