A friend gave me a copy of that novella, which was wedged along with "Miss Lonelyhearts" in the same volume.
The interesting thing about the passage you cited is that it works just as well—perhaps better—for my home state of Florida. The rootless and shiftless arrive by the thousands, all clamoring for a piece of glitz and sunshine. But when they unwrap the package, they find nothing inside the carton.
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Date: 2005-09-22 06:18 pm (UTC)The interesting thing about the passage you cited is that it works just as well—perhaps better—for my home state of Florida. The rootless and shiftless arrive by the thousands, all clamoring for a piece of glitz and sunshine. But when they unwrap the package, they find nothing inside the carton.