Word: shitting
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...large color poster of the Clash in her Strauss Hall common room, drawing deeply on a Marlboro. "Fresh-man Week was a terribly unnatural phenomenon," she says. 'It was really very contrived--there was no need for a special social week." She takes another drag. "Yeah, Freshman Week sucked shit...
...Kick the shit...
...raging black mood, and the Colonel had suddenly appeared, as if by magic, on the porch of an old brownstone. He had looked at the driver and said, "Good Evening." There was something in the way he said it that made you feel as if he knew the drear shit and persiflage and yet could still be amiable. He wasn't one of those hereditary Kentucky Colonels who, in reality, are just civic club boosters. No, he was a Colonel who probably lived in Vicksburg. He probably living in an old tumble-down mansion that he had farmed scientifically...
...same bitterness, powerfully expressed, lies at the heart of nearly every conversation John Gwaltney has recorded in his new book, whose title means "ordinary" in one American Black argot. One man, a coal miner, says this of whites: "Just thinking about them makes me feel like I have swallowed shit. I mean, a rat or a maggot is better than the best white cat who ever drew breath. Just looking at those things makes me want to spit up. Everything they do is rotten." Or this from a cook: "These people hide their dirt or make everybody...
...follow it in any sort of literary sense is ridiculous. They talk about Shepard writing in dream language, and the bearded wunderkinds at NYU write introductions to his plays that speak of ritual Indian drug use and the tradition of the shaman--and all of them are full of shit. You can't follow Shepard from word to word, because his transitional sentences are emotional. His characters are suffering from psychotic jet-lag and even though the fact that their minds have been careening from one end of the cortex to the other cannot really count for travel anymore...