Sunday, 27 September 2020

So Many Outcasts


          Then the wooden benches along the walls, where so many outcasts had slept, would be lit by a sort of slow, clocked lightning till the bulb steadied and fastened it's tiny feral fury upon the center of the room like a single sullen and manic eye. To burn on there with a steady hate.

The Man with the Golden Arm
Nelson Algren
1949

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