Jody said, "Ma, you're shore good."
"Oh, yes. When it's rations."
"Well, I'd a heap ruther you was good about rations and mean about other things."
"Oh, I be mean, be I?"
"Only about jest a very few things," he soothed her.
He wrote:
Dear ollever; yor ol twinkk has dun gode up the rivver. im gladd. yor friend jody.
You do somethin' for me? Go tell Twink I'll meet her at the old grove Tuesday about dusk-dark."
Jody was frozen.
He burst out, "I won't do it. I hate her. Ol' yellow-headed somethin'.
العقل البشري يبعثر اهتماماته كما لو كانت من زغب الأشواك، كل الرياح تثيرها و تحركها
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsHe was addled with April. He was dizzy with Spring. He was as drunk as Lem Forrester on a Saturday night.
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsSift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsGood" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own selfish standards.
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsEulalie in a remote fashion belonged to him, Jody, to do with as he pleased, if only to throw potatoes at her.
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsNow he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsYou've seed how things goes in the world o' men. You've knowed men to be low-down and mean. You've seed ol' Death at his tricks...Ever' man wants life to be a fine thing, and a easy. 'Tis fine, boy, powerful fine, but 'tain't easy. Life knocks a man down and he gits up and it knocks him down agin. I've been uneasy all my life...I've wanted life to be easy for you. Easier'n 'twas for me. A man's heart aches, seein' his young uns face the world. Knowin' they got to get their guts tore out, the way his was tore. I wanted to spare you, long as I could. I wanted you to frolic with your yearlin'. I knowed the lonesomeness he eased for you. But ever' man's lonesome. What's he to do then? What's he to do when he gits knocked down? Why, take it for his share and go on.
—Penny Baxter
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