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Angels and Electrons: A Sub-Suburban Tale
Copyright 2012 Paul HawkinsDedication: To the memory of my father
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
 Emily Dickinson
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---Success in Cirrcuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind---
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: I have consulted the characters’ own notes and recollections to tell this storyto the best of my ability. It is not my fault that some of them are slightly addled. None of themset out to lie, I don’t think, but may do it subconsciously out of habit. That happens when peopleretell the past to themselves too many times until they can live with it. Special thanks to RosalindRussell, who thoroughly interviewed the other participants in order to sift the truth from fictionand, in the process, now remembers events she never actually attended.
 
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Contents
Prologue - by Blaise Bohrs........................................................................................................4Vacuum Tube Technology.....................................................................................................4It Had Been an American Century.........................................................................................5The Sub-Suburbs....................................................................................................................6Chapter 1: Blaise........................................................................................................................7From Blaise’s Journal............................................................................................................7From Rosalind’s Journal: About Blaise.................................................................................9Did You Find Out Where He Gets His Money?..................................................................13From Blaise’s Journal..........................................................................................................15Chapter 2: Blaise and Jude and Carmelita...............................................................................16From Rosalind’s Journal......................................................................................................16From Blaise’s Journal..........................................................................................................19From Rosalind’s Journal......................................................................................................22From Blaise’s Journal..........................................................................................................30From Rosalind’s Journal......................................................................................................31From Blaise's Journal...........................................................................................................32From Rosalind's Journal.......................................................................................................32From Blaise's Journal...........................................................................................................33From Rosalind’s Journal......................................................................................................35Did You Find Out Where He Gets His Money? - Part 2.....................................................36The Present: From Jude's Journal.........................................................................................37Chapter 3: The Breakdown......................................................................................................39From Blaise's Journal: My Father........................................................................................39
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