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A Recollection

A Recollection Thomas Wolfe Appalachian Heritage, Volume 35, Number 4, Fall 2007, pp. 32-35 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2007.0088 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/432473/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 18:29 GMT from JHU Libraries FEATURED AUTHOR Thomas Wolfe In red-oak thickets at break of day long hunters wait for bears. Our food was furred and hunched and fought for: we will cook thick gamey bearsteaks at our fires. We will fry fish and streaky bacon; yellow corn and pork. We saw the dead snake with blue flies buzzing at his buttered head! We'll chaw strong glug tobaccer and swallow the quid; and our talk with men in bars was full of danger and quick death. "Oh, I don't know! I ain't sayin' what I can do. But I ain't takin' no back talk." And Baccus left our seeds in Oregon. Grope for your father in the ocean bed. The yellow wheat, groin-high, about the hips of girls. "Did you ever try this lotion, sir? It's free today with every package." Get bigger birds than nightingales to fly the plains. The littered tables of nice nasty beauties: gummed combs, a dingy powder-puff, a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

A Recollection

-- Short novels of Thomas Wolfe.,
Appalachian Review , Volume 35 (4) – Jan 8, 2014
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Thomas Wolfe Appalachian Heritage, Volume 35, Number 4, Fall 2007, pp. 32-35 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2007.0088 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/432473/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 18:29 GMT from JHU Libraries FEATURED AUTHOR Thomas Wolfe In red-oak thickets at break of day long hunters wait for bears. Our food was furred and hunched and fought for: we will cook thick gamey bearsteaks at our fires. We will fry fish and streaky bacon; yellow corn and pork. We saw the dead snake with blue flies buzzing at his buttered head! We'll chaw strong glug tobaccer and swallow the quid; and our talk with men in bars was full of danger and quick death. "Oh, I don't know! I ain't sayin' what I can do. But I ain't takin' no back talk." And Baccus left our seeds in Oregon. Grope for your father in the ocean bed. The yellow wheat, groin-high, about the hips of girls. "Did you ever try this lotion, sir? It's free today with every package." Get bigger birds than nightingales to fly the plains. The littered tables of nice nasty beauties: gummed combs, a dingy powder-puff, a

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