It is always nighttime, and I’m standing at the edge of the sea-the silhouette of the Huntington Beach Pier like the tail of a wooden dragon to the south-and he emerges from the water to greet me. He left a note for his family, walked down to the beach, and put the barrel of a gun into his mouth. The first person I ever know to commit suicide does so during my freshman year of high school. I feel like I should mention that I had a happy childhood. When, two years later, I watch it on video at a friend’s house, I dream for several nights afterwards about dying in a helicopter crash, or being shot in the back by someone I thought was my friend. I’m sensitive to images of film violence, which means they know that the sight of Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, and Tom Berenger moving through elephant grass just inside the Cambodian border would haunt me for weeks, if not months. My parents won’t let me see Platoon because they know how it will affect me.
So I guess he did survive the electric chair, after all. Later I will learn that the man did two tours as a marine in Vietnam. Which is probably why I dream about being condemned to the electric chair often in those years. Which is why whenever I see the man in the neighborhood I always cross the street. In my neighborhood there’s a rumor among my friends that a local man survived the electric chair three times, and that, after the third time, the police were forced to let him go. When the video for “Welcome to the Jungle” debuts, I have to look away whenever it shows Axl Rose writhing in pain while being strapped to an electric chair. After staring at it for a few minutes and running my fingers along its slim rivers, I slowly rotate the sphere until I find Canada. I wake up to locate Saigon on the small globe that sits on my dresser.
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I begin to crack my knuckles to count the number of times I lock the front door to speak in my sleep.Īt eleven I dream that America decides to reinvade Vietnam. But whatever the case, I dream for weeks afterwards that I have taken over the role of Mad Martigan from Val Kilmer, and I’m trapped in a crow’s cage from which I cannot escape.īy the time I’m nine the dentist says the enamel on my teeth has already begun to wear from the amount of grinding I do at night. The latter two make perfect sense-Body Horror has always freaked me out-but my fear of Willow still perplexes me, since it’s basically the type of run-of-the-mill, Tolkien-lite fantasy film Hollywood has been making for decades. Purgatory seems like something one can escape the way Han, Luke, Leia, and Chewy escape from that futuristic trash compactor i n Star Wars.įilms that give me nightmares during childhood:
Hell doesn’t frighten me when Father Doyle mentions it during Mass.
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This e-reader is also utilizing Android 4.2.2 and comes with the Inkbook app store, with around 16 reading apps.On our walks to the basketball court, or to Mile Square Park, or to the local 7-Eleven, we detail exactly what we’d do to these men should they attempt to harm our families, just as we boast about the superhuman levels of physical strength we already possess, or the unmatched intelligence that no one-especially our teachers-seems to realize we harbor.ĭo I die in my dreams in those years? Sometimes.
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It has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and a 2000 mAh battery, and it weighs 165 grams and measures 159 x 114 x 9 mm.
Underneath the hood is a Quad-Core Cortex A9 up to 1.6 GHz processor, 512MB of RAM and 8GB of storage space, with a microSD card slot for expansion. There is a all new color temperature system in the Prime, it has blue and white lights, instead of candlelight orange, which all e-readers were using in 2017 and most of 2018. It also helps contain the LED lights for the front-lit display and ensures that there will be no light spillage. The screen is flush with the bezel, which makes it easier to tap and gesture on the screen. The Prime features a six inch capacitive touchscreen display with E Ink Carta with a resolution of 1448 x 1072 pixels and 300 dpi. It is currently retailing for €139 on their website and is primarily competing against the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite, Nook Glowlight 3 and the Kobo Clara HD. The Inkbook Prime is the most successful e-reader that Arta Tech has ever made and the company has just refreshed it with a new color temperature screen and HD resolution for 2018.
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