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1.
Gold Plated
2. Later Days
3. Esmerelda
4. Stunt
Double
5. Spotless As You
6. Motorhome
7. Tired
Wings
8. Do It On the Strings
9. Payroll Peter
10. The Cosmonaut
11. $100 Blues
12. October Teen |
"In
the last fIfty years a vast change has taken place in the lives
of our people. A revolution has in fact taken place. The coming
of industrialism, attended by all the roar and rattle of affairs,
the shrill cries of millions of new voices that have come among
us from overseas, the going and coming of trains, the growth, of
cities, the building of the interurban car lines that weave in
and out of towns and past farmhouses, and now in these later days
the coming of automobiles has worked a tremendous change in the
lives and in the habits of thought of our people of Mid-America.
Books, badly imagined and written though they may be in the hurry
of our times, are in every household, magazines circulate by the
millions of copies, newspapers are everywhere. In our day a farmer
standing by the stove in the store in his village has his mind
filled to overflowing with the words of other men. The newspapers
and the magazines have pumped him full. Much of the old brutal
ignorance that had in it also a kind of beautiful childlike innocence
is gone forever. The farmer by the stove is brother to the men
of the cities, and if you listen you will find him talking as glibly,
and as senselessly as the best city man of us all."
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Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, 1919 |
