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STROLLING down a quiet street in a small town, James Baldwin came upon a scene that has since haunted his dreams. From a sunlit patch of grass came the singing laughter of a child. Baldwin looked ?and saw a white man swinging his little daughter in the air. "It didn't last for more than a second," recalls Baldwin, "but it was an unforgettable touch of beauty, a glimpse of another world. Then I looked down and saw a shadow. The shadow was a nigger?...
Spiv & Tart. Mother rules their lives in death as she did in life. They build a sort of playhouse in her tomb in the backyard lily patch and call it The Tabernacle, and slowly evolve the forms of a religion based on the dead. Hymns and the promulgation of rules and cruel punishments comprise its simple liturgy. The fact is-not that facts, as such, mean much to them-that mother was a local scandal as a woman of loose morals (which is partly why the adults accepted the kids' story that mother was "sick...
...improved over the past ten years. He installed a temporary plastic "shunt" so that blood supply to the brain would be maintained during the operation, removed large gobs of fatty material from the carotids, enlarged both the common and internal carotid arteries still further by suturing a Dacron patch in their walls. Then a week later he removed the atheromas that were causing the sharp pain in Key's legs...
...slaughter raged unchecked, white children were evacuated from the city to a nearby Methodist mission. From neighboring Northern Rhodesia, blood was flown in to meet the needs of the Jadotville hospital, where doctors and nurses worked nonstop for more than 48 hours trying to patch up a steady stream of wounded and dying. Many victims were maimed beyond recognition. "A doctor lifted a bandage off one man's head," said a witness. "A large piece had been sliced out of his skull like a slice from an orange, and I could see his brain pulsating...
...underestimated. "Duck, chicken, even goose, and even the rarest bird in the world, the turkey, are sold ... as much as you like." At this officially correct explanation, "the all-seeing eye that had been watching them squinted mockingly at the luckless spies and dissolved in a yellow patch, the color of the wallpaper, as though it had never been there." Was the eye ever there at all? Tertz seems to be saying that the worst thing about a police state is the behavior it imposes on people even when Big Brother is not watching...