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I Also Believe My Home State Is Cursed By Ignorance And Poverty And Racism, Much Of It Deliberately Inculcated To Control A Vulnerable Electorate. And I Believe Many Of The Politicians In Louisiana Are Among The Most Stomach-churning Examples Of White Trash And Venality I Have Ever Known. To Me, The Fact That Large Numbers Of People Find Them Humorously Picaresque Is Mind Numbing, On A Level With Telling Fond Tales Of One's Rapist.

Hackberry Holland's Greatest Fear Was His Fellow Man's Propensity To Act Collectively, In Militaristic Lockstep, Under The Banner Of God And Country. Mobs Did Not Rush Across Town To Do Good Deeds, And In Hackberry's View, There Was No More Odious Taint On Any Social Or Political Endeavor Than Universal Approval.

I Looked At Lucas With The Pang That A Parent Feels When He Knows His Child Will Be Hurt And That It's No One's Fault And That To Try To Preempt The Rites Of Passage Is An Act Of Contempt For The Child's Courage.

Humility Is Not A Virtue In A Writer, It Is An Absolute Necessity.

Neither Our Own Passing Nor The Passing Of An Era Is A Tragedy, No Matter How Much We Would Like To Think It Is.