fabric of things (the fabric you thought was so innocent) and arrowed straight
at you? Could you be held responsible for your own actions as you ran crazily
about on the sloping roof seventy feet above the ground; not knowing where you
were going; not remembering that your panicky; stumbling feet could lead you
crashing and blundering right over the rain gutter and down to your death on the
concrete seventy feet below? Jack didnt think you could。 When you unwittingly
stuck your hand into the wasps nest; you hadnt made a covenant with the devil
to give up your civilized self with its trappings of love and respect and honor。
It just happened to you。 Passively; with no say; you ceased to be a creature of
the mind and became a creature of the nerve endings; from college…educated man
to wailing ape in five easy seconds。
He thought about George Hatfield。
Tall and shaggily blond; George had been an almost insolently beautiful boy。
In his tight faded jeans and Stovington sweatshirt with the sleeves carelessly
pushed up to the elbows to disclose his tanned forearms; he had reminded Jack of
a young Robert Redford; and he doubted that George had much trouble scoring — no
more than that young footballplaying devil Jack Torrance had ten years earlier。
He could say that he honestly didnt feel jealous of George; or envy him his
good looks; in fact; he had almost unconsciously begun to visualize George as
the physical incarnation of his play hero; Gary Benson — the perfect foil for the
dark; slumped; and aging Denker; who grew to hate Gary so much。 But he; Jack
Torrance; had never felt that way about George。 If he had; he would have known
it。 He was quite sure of that。
George had floated through his classes at Stovington。 A soccer and baseball
star; his academic program had been fairly undemanding and he had been content
with Cs and an occasional B in history or botany。 He was a fierce field
contender but a lackadaisical; amused sort of student in the classrooms。 Jack was
familiar with the type; more from his own days as a high school and college
student than from his teaching experience; which was at second hand。 George
Hatfield was a jock。 He could be a calm; undemanding figure in the classroom;
but when the right set of petitive stimuli was applied (like electrodes to
the temples of Frankensteins monster; Jack thought wryly); he could bee a
juggernaut。
In January; George had tried out with two dozen others for the debate team。 He
had been quite frank with Jack。 His father was a corporation lawyer; and he
wanted his son to follow in his footsteps。 George; who felt no burning
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