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...stars are still doing their old cosmic crisscross, and there ain't a thing we can do about it. It's pretty quiet now. Folk hereabouts get to bed early, those that can still walk. Down behind the morgue a few of the young people are roastin' a nigger over an open fire, but I guess every town has its night-owls, and afore long they'll be tucked up asleep like anybody else. Nothin' stirring down at the big old plantation house-you can't even hear the hummin' of that electrified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A PARODY SAMPLER | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

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