C.: Wow, d.c.’s doctor’s appointment ran REALLY late today. I have already dressed for work, so I will just continue my thinking of mind-clearing questions. “If one has a job of doing nothing all day, how does that person know when it is time to quit doing nothing and go home and do SOMETHING?”
While Cal.E. is still contemplating the great mysteries of life, we will take our audience back to planet HTRAE, where Dr. Buddy Bones is trying to invent a perpetual motion machine and corner the market on energy on his planet.
BB: If that irritating cat can get these calculations right, maybe I can, too. She bugged out on me when one or two or all fourteen of her kittens came down with a serious illness of some kind. I was concentrating on my work too hard to listen to what she was saying.
I made the correct calculations to find that wormhole and put myself into a different universe. Certainly, I can do these calculations. I notice the ELAC usually reads the local newspaper before working. She says that answering these easy trivia questions is a good way to loosen up her brain to do her calculations for her job. Let’s see, what do the states of Texas and Washington have in common,? And what do the states, New Jersey, New York, California, and Illinois have in common? If I can figure that out, I can win a free book if I am one of the first five people to answer it correctly. All I must do is pay shipping and handling charges.
Let’s see, Texas is in the south. I know that, because I formerly lived there, before that “unfortunate incident” with a neighborhood cat. It is hot in Texas most of the year, and cold in Washington, since it is one of the states that are on the border of Canada. It is as far north as one can go and still be in the United States. Additionally, Texas is a red state, and Washington is a blue state, as a rule. What could these two states possibly have in common? The other states are all blue states as well. Hmm.
I wonder what that book “Precision; A Crime of Passion” is about. d.c. scot wrote it, before he changed the spelling of his pen name. He wrote it under the name D.C. Scott. Hmm. Here is the synopsis of the book online. It sounds interesting.
Precision: synopsis.
This is a murder mystery. A singer-songwriter (John) with interests in other businesses meets the woman of his dreams. She is a doctor at a prison. John’s love interest is not interested in having more children, after an abusive marriage that produced one child. They end their engagement over this because he loves children and wants kids of his own. Later, John finds love with another woman who adores children. Together, they foster and adopt a brood of children. While she is on a mission trip to Asia, John’s wife of twenty years is apparently killed in a plane crash.
After his wife is declared deceased, the woman of his dreams re-enters John’s life, only to die of a chronic illness less than six months after they marry. As he is burying his long-lost love, his supposedly deceased wife reappears, brandishing a large knife. She tells him that she has had retrograde amnesia and has only recently recovered her memory. She carries the knife for protection since she does not remember who or where she is. She only remembers that she hates guns.
Questions arise about the legality of John’s most recent marriage since his wife of twenty years was never actually dead. The couple decides to go to bed and figure it all out in the morning. When their adult daughter arrives the next day, she finds two dead bodies in her parent’s bed. The local police term it a murder-suicide, since the woman still is clutching the knife in her right hand, and each person has a small cut over his and her carotid artery. The detectives overlook the fact that the woman was left-handed.
Five years later, a semi-retired detective browses the department’s cold case file and takes an interest in this case. He knows things about each of the murdered couple that lead him to believe that it was not a case of murder-suicide. He believes that it is a case of premeditated murder by a third, unidentified person or persons. Unwittingly, the detective enlists the help of the murdered couple’s oldest adopted son to help him solve the case. The story is told from this young man’s point of view. The author introduces new suspects in different chapters of the book. Although the detective is familiar with the couple, he not only does not identify the murderer correctly, but he also does not recognize that his main source of information is the couple’s oldest adopted son, a former NFL Super Bowl winner and MVP of the game. The surprise ending, though, would be one that even a seasoned veteran detective would not be able to discern.
The crux of this 102,000-word- tomb can be summed up in one paragraph, spoken by the main character. When asked why he would agree to marry someone who is sure to die within the next six months, he replies, “We are all going to die. It is just a matter of when. We are all terminal in a sense. That is the thing about life. No one gets out of it alive.”
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