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Re: Cue the villagers with pitch... ah... automatic weapons
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I was in Central Park last month, somewhere in that woods walk at the north end. You can be secluded in there, which isn't a typical feeling for NYC. Anyways, I turned at one point on the path and coming at me were 3 young black men. I felt a bit of apprehension, ain't no road to cross, but I might have felt the same if they were white. Then the one says "let's sing show tunes!" and they starting to. Boy did I feel sheepish.
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This reminds of a story that Ralph Ellison tells in Going To The Territory (?). He was going door-to-door for some job in a miserable tenement in a black neighborhood, and he gets to one door and can hear that there's a huge argument inside that apartment. He's scared and thinks about getting out of there, but he stands and listens and realizes that it's a couple of guys who work backstage at the Met and they're arguing about opera.
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Last edited by Tyrone Slothrop; 11-20-2014 at 08:29 PM..
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