![]() ![]() For the first time he realized that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father. Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later. Which is to say, he told us nothing of the mind of a person at the center of a scandal in the last quarter of the twentieth century. loins aflame, ready for anything, all you've got, laughs, tears, moans, giddy thrills, gasps, horrors, whatever, the gorier the merrier. He did not discuss what happens when one's self-or what one takes to be one's self-is not a mere cavity open to the outside world but has suddenly become an amusement park to which everybody todo el mundo, tout le monde, comes scampering, skipping and screaming, nerves a-tingle. "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses." Ah well. And then I noticed the most peculiar thing. ![]() "And then say what? Say, 'Forget you're hungry, forget you got shot inna back by some racist cop-Chuck was here? Chuck come up to Harlem-'" Passages ![]()
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