the allegorized realities
"The Allegorized Realities," June 8, 2022 (#159)
title from "From Uncle Remus to Song of the South: Adapting American Plantation Fictions" by Daniel Stein (2015)
Changing Places by David Lodge (1975)
Second Place by Rachel Cusk (2021)
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley (1974)
First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories by Harold Brodkey (1958)
The Allegorized Realities
Improvidence at work again. What kind of a chance is
the parental language that one way or another I've neglected?
If you have anything sensible to say, don't wait. Shout it out,
out through the screens at the night and the patches of light on the
real groovy teacher and his classes are very popular. The other
could assume an awful flaccidity, like an acrobat who has somehow
done a million things in these scary, private years. We drove the
worst kind of hypocrite. The truth of the matter is, they were
cleared soon in preparation for work on the recreational
lawn and along the flower beds and as I came around the
pots and pans came out of the playground and a
matchless calm thoughtfulness that it was impossible to
kiss and make up. I've been thinking, why don't you?
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from Song of the South (1946)
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