By Joseph Natoli
Memoir meets cultural feedback during this exam of yank pop culture on the finish of the century.
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There are no lights; the nearest house, Kell Petry’s, is around a turn about a quarter of a mile further into the holl’r. Kell had a beagle dog, maybe a year old, who came down the road hobbling because his front two legs had been cut off in a fox trap; one above the knee joint and one below so when he walked on the stumps, he walked unevenly. That dog was always cross, eyes kind of dazed with continuous pain. Elaine had to ask Kell why he didn’t put the dog down because it hurt her bad to see that dog, or even hear it bark in the distance.
I remember the head nurse, just like Kesey’s Big Nurse, calling out to me as I walked out of that ward in the same clothes that I had walked in. ” Did I want to get out of the draft bad enough to want an illness bad enough to keep me out? She didn’t like me; I had given her some back talk in front of the troops. I think she was pissed because she thought I might have beat them somehow on all the tests they had given me. But neither their tests nor my cunning were at play here: Chance had played a hand and slipped me through.
Why, I think it is his close study of that grid and his ability to find a move he can make to his advantage. If you read any biography of Joe Kennedy what you find is a series of smart moves, undeflected by Martha’s Vineyard, July 17, 1999 23 Chance. Later on, Chance will claim the lives of his sons, Joe Jr. in World War II and Jack in 1963, and of his grandsons, Michael on the ski slope and JFK Jr. in the air. But Joe Sr. reads the layout of the board astutely and has Chance rolling the dice in his favor.