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Posted by Express Rider on Sat May 28 00:05:53 2016, in response to Re: The SAS is here, sorta, posted by Mark S. Feinman on Fri May 27 13:05:34 2016. "I'm just goin' out to see duh place," he says. "I like duh sound of duh name... Bensonuhoist, y'know...""How d' yuh know deh was such a place," I says, "I got a map dat tells me about all dese places." "Wit dat, he pulls out of his pocket ... a big map of duh whole goddam place ... Mahked out ... Canarsie an' East Noo Yawk an' Flatbush, Bensonhoist, Sout' Broooklyn, duh Heights, Bay Ridge, Greenpernt - duh whole goddamn layout ... right deh on duh map. ... I was down in Red hook just last last night," he says... I says, "You stay away from deh." ... he says, "What's wrong wit it?" ... "Oh nuttin'. Yuh might get lost down deh dat's all." ... he says, "... I wouldn't get lost. I got a map..." ... duh guy asks me ... how long would it take a guy to know duh place ... "You ain't neveh gonna get to know Brooklyn," I says. "Not in a hunderd yeahs." ... he says, "but I got a map to help me find my way..." "Map or no map ... yuh ain't gonna get to know Brooklyn with no map, " says. ... I've t'ought about dat guy a t'ousand times since ... Walkin' ... t'roo Red Hook ... an lookin' at his map! I wondeh ... if he's still wanderin' aroun' in duh subway ... wit his little map! ... It'd take a guy a lifetime to know Brooklyn t'roo an' t'roo. An even den, yuh wouldn't know it all. - from "Only The Dead Know Brooklyn" Thomas Wolfe (1936) |
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