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HOMEBOY by Seth Morgan...
...Seth Morgan began writing this first novel during a prison term for armed robbery. The cuff marks show, and not just in detail that seems accurate. The novel is funny and fast moving, but its air stinks slightly of decay. As it should. A couple of Nelson Algren's low-life adventures come to mind, such as A Walk on the Wild Side and The Man with the Golden Arm. Algren was a better writer and a more lyrical artist, but Morgan is better acquainted with dead souls...
...slight whiff of jailhouse self-pity: Joe loves Kitty, goes to the lockup, survives the schemes of bad villains with the help of good villains, and gets out to find true-blue Kitty and the child he has never seen waiting for him. The best of the book is Morgan's wildly reinvented con lingo. His ear fails him occasionally, when he uses lace-curtain language -- "caparisoned," "implacable mien" -- that some editor should have yanked from the manuscript with tongs. But at other times he's cooking: "Saturday night movies in the Gym were the social climax of the week...
...spokes within a pliable rim. While multispoked wheels minimize wind resistance, they are easily bent out of shape. In the mid-'80s, solid "disk" wheels made of Kevlar improved matters but were somewhat hard to control in crosswinds. A solution came early this year from Specialized Bicycle Components of Morgan Hill, Calif.: a three-spoke wheel developed with Du Pont. Specialized's wheel, a composite of carbon fiber, epoxy resin, Kevlar and aluminum, has an air-foil shape, and was designed with a Cray supercomputer. Tests proved the wheels are faster and more durable than traditional ones...
...strike until a lady of color is offered a professorship on the legal faculty seems to have omitted several considerations: 1. The lady should also be a Muslim (very few on the faculty). 2. She should be a lesbian. 3. She should also know something about law. Arthur J. Morgan...