I Am Legend - Richard Matheson

Date: 2022-07-24
| The realization made him sick. It was an insult to a man. All
| right, it was a natural drive, but there was no outlet for it any
| more. They’d forced celibacy on him; he’d have to live with
| it. You have a mind, don’t you? he asked himself. Well, use it?
Chapter: Chapter One


Date: 2022-07-24
| Quickly, trying not to think at all; he went to the bedroom and
| undressed. He put on pajama bottoms and went into the bathroom. He
| never wore pajama tops; it was a habit he’d acquired in Panama
| during the war.
Chapter: Chapter One


Date: 2022-07-24
| After breakfast he threw the paper plate and cup into the trash
| box and brushed his teeth.
Chapter: Chapter Two


Date: 2022-07-26
| “THE STRENGTH OF THE vampire is that no one will believe in
| him.” Thank you, Dr. Van Helsing, he thought, putting down his
| copy Of “Dracula.” He sat staring moodily at the bookcase,
| listening to Brahms’ second piano concerto, a whisky sour in
| his right hand, a cigarette between his lips.  It was true. The
| book was a hodgepodge of superstitions and soap-opera clichés,
| but that line was true; no one had believed in them, and how could
| they fight something they didn’t even believe in?
Chapter: Chapter Three


Date: 2022-07-26
| The vampire may foster quickened heartbeats and levitated hair. But
| is he worse than the parent who gave to society a neurotic child
| who became a politician? Is he worse than the manufacturer who set
| up belated foundations with the money he made by handing bombs and
| guns to suicidal nationalists
Chapter: Chapter Three


Date: 2022-07-26
| A bolt of self-accusation struck him. To know for five months
| that they remained indoors by day and never once to make the
| connection! He closed his eyes, appalled by his own stupidity
Chapter: Chapter Four