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70Life of Suttree: To Knoxville and Then Some
What’s on the mind of Cornelius “Buddy” Suttree as he looks up at the wide expanse of stars visible after just having made love to a young woman that can’t quite get enough of him? I bow to the god...
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70“Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting”: Modern Day Moshers’ Coming-of-Age
A twenty-six year old man stands on stage with a microphone in his hand. He pauses, closes his eyes, and waits for inspiration. He is literally beside himself and seems to go into a prophetic trance. His...
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59Fiddle-dee-dee, My Ass
Masculinity Southern style is portrayed foremost in Mitchell’s GWTW by two main characters, Rhett and Scarlett. Scarlett? One might say—femininity incarnate, masculine? YES, because masculinity,...
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64“I’ll Be Seeing You in All the Old Familiar Places”
11 November 2006 It is a full hour before the parade starts and I see trucks passing in front of me dropping saw dust onto the black empty streets that are usually thick with sound and metal. “Must be...
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65Zadie Smith's White Teeth: "Reach Out and Touch Faith"
The circus is in town and acts from greater London in White Teeth have the biggest “peanut-crunching crowd” (Thanks, Lady Lazarus). The freak show could lovingly and respectfully be called Godapalooza....
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63Autobiographical Snapshots of The Way They Were
I like to have my experiences buried deep in a personal context. ---from Blackberry Winter by Margaret Mead There is nothing quite so thrilling...
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