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66A VISIT TO A DEPARTMENT STORE
At that hour there were rather few customers at the department store, mid-afternoon. The Albuquerque sun hit hardest then, so most people stayed indoors basking in the cool of their air conditioners....
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60The Lunch
“How are you, Mary?” “Well … I don’t know what I’m gonna do.” “What’s the matter? Where is everybody?” “Things is bad. Nobody come in all morning.” “Could you give me some coffee … milk and two sugars? Is it...
2 comments60ROSABEE
Rosabee came in the afternoons and stood on the other side of the screen door calling my father by name through the wire mesh, announcing herself before opening. This was signal enough for her husband to drive...
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58REFLECTIONS ON KAFKA
“The attacks. Yesterday a walk with the dog in the evening.” Kafka’s Diary July 27, 1922 Under the light of the streetlamp the dog stopped to scratch. A thin almost stick figure in a...
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54HELEN OF PENNSYLVANIA
In earlier days, I guess they would have marked her for a witch and done the customary indignities. Today, Helen was just someone who followed the carnival circuit of Central Pennsylvania in the...
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60BUGSY'S
Bugsy of course was not his real name but what else were you going to call him if you were never introduced? Anyway, in a joking sort of way that is what everybody called him and he always took it in...
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55BILL
In my parents’ bedroom on a red-painted chest of drawers by the bed is a photo, in a rather simple frame, of my uncle, my mother’s brother Bill, whom we did not know very well, if at all. We had...
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54JUST LIKE CHESLEY
There was a time when I wanted to be like Chesley, until I realized that nobody can be like anyone else, neither can nor should be. There are enough personalities to go around; no need to share. But...
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59Buck Wynn
It was a ranch about fifty miles southwest of Austin. That’s where Buck Wynn lived with his cattle and small four-seater Cessna, a plane that sawed like a gnat through the infinite sky above the...
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