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Sooth is a tale of the occult, its hero a colored roustabout seaman fleeing the violent end predicted for him by a "conjuh-woman." He switches from ship to ship and alias to alias. But always he hears the words of the soothsayer: "Wha'-foh you big teef shinin' to the sky? How come all this heah bullet-blood runnin' outen yoh skull-pate all oveh the groun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reactionary Old Fogy | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

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