Lone Women Shouldn't Stop In The Middle

Hit Them Fast, Hit Them Hard, And Hit Them A Lot.

The First Day Of The Rest Of My Life.

People Spend Thousands Of Dollars On Stereos. Sometimes Tens Of Thousands. There Is A Specialist Industry Right Here In The States Which Builds Stereo Gear To A Standard You Wouldn't Believe. Tubed Amplifiers Which Cost More Than A House. Speakers Taller Than Me. Cables Thicker Than A Garden Hose. Some Army Guys Had That Stuff. I'd Heard It On Bases Around The World. Wonderful. But They Were Wasting Their Money. Because The Best Stereo In The World Is Free. Inside Your Head. It Sounds As Good As You Want It To. As Loud As You Want It To Be.

I Had A Brief Theater Background And Loved The Backstage World There's More Backstage Work In Television, So I Saw A Job Advertised And Applied, And Got It. That Was Back In 1977, When Getting Jobs Was Easy.

People, Reacher Was Certain About. Dogs Were Different. People Had Freedom Of Choice. If A Man Or A Woman Ran Snarling Toward Him, They Did So Because They Chose To. They Were Asking For Whatever They Got. His Response Was Their Problem. But Dogs Were Different. No Free Will. Easily Misled. It Raised An Ethical Problem. Shooting A Dog Because It Had Been Induced To Do Something Unwise Was Not The Sort Of Thing Reacher Wanted To Do.