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… As we pulled ourselves aboard the boat, we heard an ear-splitting roar and looked back.The missile had been launched … by a rocket booster with a spectacular tail of white-hot flame …
…He said, “You may be surprised, but nothing is wrong with her, except she’s too much. Too beautiful, too sexy, too capable, too intelligent — the most perfect package of womanhood. She has the curse of the beautiful, intelligent woman. From childhood, men have eaten out of her hand. But, you know, that hasn’t spoiled her.”
“Why the two divorces?” I asked.
Fitzwater smiled, “The husbands were assholes. Aren’t all divorced husbands assholes by definition? My present wife had three husbands before me, and she says they were all assholes…”
Dr. Julie looked particularly fresh and beautiful in a light cotton frock with her new Spanish suntan glowing against her luxuriant black hair. “Omar Ratcliff was always a power seeker, an aggressor, even with his own mother. He had a powerful libidinal drive and was full of life’s vital forces — a remarkable, intelligent boy who began to surpass his father at an early age — that is, in intelligence, savvy and charm. Conquering the tuna boat business — after his father died — then making a killing in currency speculation and building himself his mansions, it was inevitable that he would venture into a new challenge …
…Zelda said,“If this is about God within us, it would make sense that God would have created man, say by Darwin’s theory of evolution — survival of the fittest — from the very beginning, with a built-in instrumentality — let’s say an intelligent design — to fight evil through the mind of his creation, that is, man…”
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