Word: junks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet on the street are heads. But all those things they say about them aren't true. There are lots of blowing cats [musicians] who have been smoking for years. Lots of doctors. People aren't the sharpest. They don't catch on. Not even on junk. You know you don't have to stand in the middle of the living room and say, 'Pardon me, mother, while I have a fix!' Why don't people leave us alone...
...authority than George Washington pronounced Monongahela rye "excellent,'' etc. But what gives the book its special tang is Pilot Bissell's own experiences on the old Mon. When he reported for duty on the Coal Queen, he saw a dirty one-stacker, "a piece of marine junk." That was winter time, and he had to be persuaded not to take the first train back to the Midwest. Came spring and Pilot Bissell thought: "For me to be drawing wages for piloting a towboat under these conditions. why, that's just like paying a kid to watch...
...half-spoon of heroin, enough to make ten or twelve individual shots. They sold the shots for $5 apiece. But, confesses Amy, "even that didn't pay for all the jolting we did after we got married. Eddie was spending around $40 a day sometimes just for the junk for us to jolt with...
There is Dincher the trumpeter, who thinks he can trade hot licks with Louis Armstrong; Timmy the homosexual dancer; Louella, a kittenish advance-guard poetess who wants to hang out with real cats; an impotent sadist who pushes (sells) junk to schoolchildren, and a sordid slew of others. Diane has a ball (doped-up good time) with all of them, but can't escape her own ritualistic premise: "There's nothing. There's nowhere, everything is empty." She ricochets from man to man in love affairs as monotonous as the click of billiard balls...
Uninvited and uncalled for, the students came to the rescue of the little Island. Their bashy ideas, however, did not click with the old timers, and the general feeling of the Islanders is to junk the plane...