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Makes a huge black space for thinking in.īut it keeps you just awake enough to be ready for whatever you need to be ready for.Īnd it means you always know what time it is.” It saves energy and it lifts the responsibility for your heartbeat away from your unconscious brain and passes it on to some kind of a hidden clock. When you’re waiting for something to happen, you close your body down like a beach house in winter and you let your mind lock on to the steady pace of the passing seconds. It was an old skill, born of many long wakeful nights on active service. “He knew what time it was to within about twenty seconds. Why measure hours and minutes when people think in years and decades?” Tune in to your circadian rhythms to set your personal internal alarm clock.įour o’clock in the morning is the best time to attack. “He set the clock in his head for two hours, and he breathed in once, and he breathed out once, and then he fell asleep, almost instantly.” You’ll feel safer sleeping with a handgun under your pillow. If you go to sleep fully dressed, you’ll be ready for action when you wake. Sleep as much as you can, because tiredness causes more foul-ups than carelessness and stupidity put together. Sleep when you can, because you never know when you’re going to sleep again.Īccept that you’ll never find a bed that will accommodate your feet as well as your head.Ĭareful, sleep can be a symptom of caffeine deprivation. “I’m sleeping well … but I think that’s mostly because of the tranquilizers.” Sometimes a whole city block can be taken out with one cigarette and one book of matches. When the walls finally collapse, the blast of sparks and embers will spread the fire farther. The contents go up first, then the floors, ceiling, and roof, with the outer walls holding up and forming a tall chimney to enhance the air flow. Retire, leaving the door open for a draft.īrick buildings always burn well. Pile as much paper as you can find on top lean a burning cigarette against the matches. Place books of matches under furniture in the center of the room. “Probably, to be putting up with this shit.” Miranda was a moron, you know that?” Deerfield said. Do you understand these rights as they have been read to you?.If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you.You have the right to speak to an attorney.
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Anything you say or do can and will be held against you in a court of law.Arizona, when an Ernesto Arturo Miranda was deemed to have had his rights violated during his arrest.
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police when questioning criminal suspects, to protect the individual from compelled self-incrimination, and to preserve the admissibility of the criminal’s statement in court. “The whole of life is a gamble, from the very beginning to the very end.” There’s always something out of context, even before you know what the context ought to be. “Something for nothing, that’s a foreign language.”Īll good scam artists stick as close to the truth as possible. You hear hoofbeats, you look for horses, not zebras.” If they do more than one, they do more than two. Paranoia prefers triple bluffs to double bluffs. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.Ī classic confidence trick is where you drip, drip, drip the unimportant stuff but then hold back on the final installment. The basis of any scam is telling people what they want to hear. I already know I’m smarter than an armadillo.”