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We drank a glass of wine on the front porch, and the Thompsons made some generalizations about black people that made us feel uncomfortable, although I had certainly heard worse from my father and his friends in London. They loved Lucy and
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“I opened the door of her car and helped her in. Her breast leaned against my shoulder heavily. I moved back. I preferred a less complicated kind of pillow, stuffed with feathers, not memories and frustrations.”
― The Moving Target
― The Moving Target
“For example, the ancient Japanese had onna-zumo (women’s wrestling), but as the sports historian Allen Guttmann writes, “The debased motivation for this activity is suggested by the names of the wrestlers: ‘Big Boobs,’ ‘Deep Crevice,’ and ‘Holder of the Balls.”
― The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch
― The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch
“The crisis of modern society is precisely that the youth no longer feel heroic in the plan for action that their culture has set up. They don’t believe it is empirically true to the problems of their lives and times.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“One of her classmates asked a prisoner what was the worst thing about being there. “The first time they fuck you in the ass,” he replied, and this was the first time that she and her classmates learned about that kind of rape.”
― Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
― Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
“We drank a glass of wine on the front porch, and the Thompsons made some generalizations about black people that made us feel uncomfortable, although I had certainly heard worse from my father and his friends in London. They loved Lucy and Monk like family, and Cadi loved to go to black church, but there were a lot of worthless blacks on welfare who didn’t want to work, and we should never stop in Tchula, even if we ran down a pedestrian, because the people there would surely rob us, and quite possibly rape Mariah by the side of the road.”
― Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
― Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
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