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Show These stories of town and people, of social emotions, of perhaps a light at the end of the tunnel, are dedicated to my friends Beaufort Jones and Ed Robinson, perceptive, both men of wisdom. Beaufort is a gambler, an escape artist, a church deacon, an empire builder. Ed has walked through the southern Maginot line of darkness and has survived. "Sixty-one highway is the longest highway that anyone knows." They are tales mostly of glorified indifference, eauity and calculated meanness. Not popular culture. Not folk culture. Perhaps not culture at all, perhaps only reflections of variables, either moral ambiguity or liberalism. Or perhaps just reflections of conduct on that strange magical line bisecting the two -- that line, that lifeline, that we call The American Way. With essences, faint essences, of a dream. |
