You can build up an awful lot of little black books in that time and put them in a safety-deposit box when they get full because they aren’t something to leave around and because they are worth their weight in gold to some parties to get their hands on…But I had the habit of saving them. A man’s got to carry something besides a corroded liver with him out of that dark backwood and abysm of time, and it might as well be the little black books. The little black books lie up there in a safety deposit box, and there are your works of days and hands all cozy in the dark in the little box and the world’s great axis grinds.
-Robert Penn Warren, “All the King’s Men”
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About Me
- David Oppegaard
- St. Paul, Minnesota
- I am the author of And the Hills Opened Up, The Suicide Collectors, and Wormwood, Nevada.
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5 comments:
Do you have a little black book?
Is that I see in your bolsillo?
what's he's got's in his pockets?
I finished all of Black Books last night. We gotta get the other 2 seasons!
Goodie Sarah refers to "Black Books", dear sparrows, a hilarious Brittish TV show about a cranky Irish dude who owns a book shop. Top notch funny!
Golem, don't make me smack you!
Hmm, I have never heard of that show. I will have to check that out. There is a nice place in my heart for crabby people in the UK.
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