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And it is one who thinks himself (or herself) devilishly clever to go into left field to spread justanother tidy slather of ugly supposition on a loaf already redolent with myth and bullshit. There ain’t nothing going on downhere in Alabama, they said over television the preceding Sunday. Blood’ d tried to tell me. ied to a girl whose father is in business witha guy whose son is a merchandising agent for circuses, an

The Benedict Arnold Hall of Shame. As a man who hit a woman once in his life and swore never to do it again, I reel back from thesefilms where hatred and brutalization of women is the governing force of plot. In her warm place, Annie held Alan close up under her chin, stroking him and feeling his tinyblack fingers warm at her throat and cheeks. Even if he had been wearing a hairpiece, those eyes couldn’t be mistaken.