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tour de force.
jeu d’esprit.
They passed stern laws instead against the possession by unmarried persons of chicken soup.
White people were the only people with money enough to buy new automobiles, except for a few black criminals, who always wanted Cadillacs.
The driver mentioned that the day before had been Veterans’ Day. “Um,” said Trout. “You a veteran?” said the driver. “No,” said Trout. “Are you?” “No,” said the driver. Neither one of them was a veteran.
The workman said this: “I don’t know how many horsepower, but I know what we call it.” “What do you call it?” said Dwayne, relieved to find his echolalia was subsiding. “We call it The Hundred-Nigger Machine,” said the work-man. This had reference to a time when black men had done most of the heavy digging in Midland City.
Another animal invented by the Creator of the Universe was a Mexican beetle which could make a blank-cartridge gun out of its rear end. It could detonate its own farts and knock over other bugs with shock waves.
He told her that every woman was a whore, and every whore had her price, and Francine’s price was what a Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise would cost, which would be well over one hundred thousand dollars by the time adequate parking and exterior lighting and all that was taken into consideration, and so on.
“I thought of all the people who come out here to visit their relatives in prison, and I realized how most of them were black, and I thought how much black people liked fried chicken,” she said.
“I’m so confused,” he said. “We all are,” she said. She cradled his head against her breasts. “I’ve got to talk to somebody,” said Dwayne. “You can talk to Mommy, if you want,” said Francine. She meant that she was Mommy.
His entire life was devoted to unloading his excrement at the proper time and place.
capricious,
destitute.
At any rate, I also retracted my testicles into my abdominal cavity, pulled them into my fuselage like the landing gear of an airplane. And now they tell me that only surgery will bring them down again.
