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...national attitude: show me, don't tell me; ingenuity applied to example; homegrown know-how. Fikad's brother saw a wood-cutting machine in an English magazine and forged one out of scrap metal. Down in the artisans' suq in Asmara, men in blue overalls don masks cut from cardboard to weld new pots from old oil tins and cooking braziers from rusted rods. The clang, hammer, sizzle of makeshift industry are everywhere as boys flatten old iron bars for their brothers to beat into new shovels...
Sitting sullen and silent on the ledge of a BankBoston window, Daniel sits before a cardboard box with a couple of dollar bills in it, moving only to crack a happy smile and nod enthusiastically to passersby who stop and drop him some change...
...Jerry walks off to find his girlfriend andgo home, Daniel continues to stare disconsolatelyat his cardboard box, and Cooper limps off to finda meal and shelter for the night. Outside CVS,Shorey finally gets his post, and the panhandlinggoes...
...seems I am not the only one interested in this book--the cardboard cover is duct-taped in a way that suggests frequent use, consultation and study. It might be of service in harassing alumni on behalf of some Harvard fundraising organ, canvassing for a job, or doing research for a profile of a now-famous graduate. None of these legitimate reasons pertain to me, however. I'm in it for the pictures...
...hallway, brothers Kenny and Camiloare helping Beeman transform a cardboard box intoa puppet show theater for the group's show nextweek. Kenny is something of a showman, prancingaround grinning and making faces despite handsdrenched in green paint...