ENGL 133SO Lecture 9: Black Boy, Harry Crews
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Memorat: explosion here that is very realist/naturalist, of the poet within. 130-131: it was the previous week"s issue and i looked at the picture of a huge black man with a greasy, sweaty face, thick lips, flat nose, golden teeth, sitting at the polished, wide-topped desk in a swing chair. The man had on a pair of gleaming yellow shoes and his feet were propped upon the desk. His thick lips nursed a big, black cigar that held white ashes an inch long. In the man"s red-dotted tie was a dazzling horseshoe stickpin, glaring conspicuously. The man wore red suspenders and his shirt was striped silk and there were huge diamond rings on his fat black fingers. A chain of gold girded his belly and from the gob of his watch a rabbit"s foot dangled. On the floor at the side of the desk was a spittoon overflowing with mucus.
