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Long Tall Sally sounds like a baddie

“Isn’t it possible that this midcentury moment enters the skin more lastingly than the vast shaping strategies of eminent leaders… …This is the people’s history and it has flesh and breath that quicken to the force of this old safe game of ours.”

“…and they are thinking in the ordinary way that helps a person glide through a life…”

talkin bout the ol trough pissers naturally

“Holy fuggin shit almighty.”

righto gashouse scrapper

“When you see a thing like that, a thing that becomes a newsreel, you begin to feel you are a carrier of some solemn scrap of history.”

“He is just a running boy, a half-seen figure from the streets, but the way running reveals some clue to being, the way a runner bares himself to consciousness, this is how the dark-skinned kid seems to open to the world, how the bloodrush of a dozen strides brings him into eloquence.”

yeah i love this, gonna take me so long to read this book :)

“He speaks in your voice, American, and there’s a shine in his eye that’s halfway hopeful.”