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.Johnny didn't know exactly what sort of trouble theyexpected - a Brownie Delight thrown in the candidate's face, maybe - but for the first time the bikieslooked really interested.Then something did happen, but Johnny was unable to tell exactly what it had been.A female handreached for the bobbing yellow hard hat, maybe just to touch it for good luck, and one of Stillson'sfellows moved in quickly.There was a yell of dismay and the woman's hand disappeared quickly.But itwas all on the other side of the marching band.The din from the crowd was enormous, and he thought again of the rock concerts he had been to.Thiswas what it would be like if Paul McCartney or Elvis Presley decided to shake hands with the crowd.They were screaming his name, chanting it: 'GREG.GREG.GREG.'The young guy who had billeted his family next to Johnny was holding his son up over his head so thekid could see.A young man with a large, puckered burn scar on one side of his face was waving a signthat read:LIVE FREE OR DIE, HERE'S GREG IN YER EYE!An achingly beautiful girl of maybe eighteen was waving a chunk of watermelon, and pink juice wasrunning down her tanned arm.It was all mass confusion.Excitement was humming through the crowdlike a series of high-voltage electrical cables.And suddenly there was Greg Stillson, darting back through the band, back to Johnny's side of thecrowd.He didn't pause, but still found time to give the tuba player a hearty clap on the back.Later, Johnny mulled it over and tried to tell himself that there really hadn't been any chance or time tomelt back into the crowd; he tried to tell himself that the crowd had practically heaved him into Stilison'sarms.He tried to tell himself that Stillson had done everything but abduct his hand.None of it was true.There was time, because a fat woman in absurd, yellow damdiggers threw her arms around Stillson'sneck and gave him a hearty kiss.which Stillson returned with a laugh and a 'You bet I'll remember you,hon.' The fat woman screamed laughter.Johnny felt the familiar compact coldness come over him, the trance feeling.The sensation that nothingmattered except to know.He even smiled a little, but it wasn't his smile.He put his hand out, and Stilisonseized it in both of his and began to pump it up and down.'Hey, man, hope you're gonna support us in.'Then Stillson broke off.The way Eileen Magown had.The way Dr.James (just like the soul singer)file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Ste.20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20deadzone.htm (284 of 370)7/28/2005 9:23:01 PMStephen King: The Dead ZoneBrown had.The way Roger Dussault had.His eyes went wide, and then they filled with - fright? No.Itwas terror in Still-son's eyes.The moment was endless.Objective time was replaced by something else, a perfect cameo of time asthey stared into each other's eyes.For Johnny it was like being in that dull chrome corridor again, onlythis time Stilison was with him and they were sharing.sharing(everything)For Johnny it had never been this strong, never.Everything came at him at once, crammed together andscreaming like some terrible black freight train highballing through a narrow tunnel, a speeding enginewith a single glaring headlamp mounted up front, and the headlamp was knowing everything, and itslight impaled Johnny Smith like a bug on a pin.There was nowhere to run and perfect knowledge ranhim down, plastered him as flat as a sheet of paper while that night-running train raced over him.He felt like screaming, but had no taste for it, no voice for it.The one image he never escaped(as the blue filter began to creep in)was Greg Stillson taking the oath of office.It was being administered by an old man with the humble,frightened eyes of a fieldmouse trapped by a terribly proficient, battlescarred(tiger)barnyard tomcat.One of Stillson's hands clapped over a Bible, one upraised.It was years in the futurebecause Stillson had lost most of his hair.The old man was speaking, Stillson was following.Stillsonwas saying(the blue filter is deepening, covering things, blotting them out bit by bit, merciful blue filter, Stillson'sface is behind the blue.and the yellow -.- the yellow like tiger-stripes)he would do it 'So help him God.' His face was solemn, grim, even, but a great hot joy clapped in hischest and roared in his brain.Because the man with the scared fieldmouse eyes was the Chief Justice ofthe United States Supreme Court and(oh dear God the filter the filter the blue filter the yellow stripes)now all of it began to disappear slowly behind that blue filter - except it wasn't a filter; it was somethingreal.It wasfile:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Ste.20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20deadzone.htm (285 of 370)7/28/2005 9:23:01 PMStephen King: The Dead Zone(in the future in the dead zone)something in the future.His? Stillson's? Johnny didn't know.There was the sense of flying - flying through the blue - above scenes of utter desolation that could notquite be seen.And cutting through this came the disembodied voice of Greg Stillson, the voice of a cut-rate God or a comic-opera engine of the dead: 'I'M GONNA GO THROUGH THEM LIKEBUCKWHEAT THROUGH A GOOSE! GONNA GO THROUGH THEM LIKE SHIT THROUGH ACANEBRAKE!''The tiger,' Johnny muttered thickly.'The tiger's behind the blue.Behind the yellow.'Then all of it, pictures, images, and words, broke up in the swelling, soft roar of oblivion [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]