The Purdzilla Show

 

Photo by Marty McGuire on Unsplash In the dark, clear light, a white, half-withered moon brought little light. The wind was dry and singing over the snow, a quiet wind that blew steadily, evenly from the cold point of the Pole. Over the land the snow lay very deep and dry as sand. The houses snuggled down in the hollows of banked snow, and their windows were dark and shuttered against the cold, and only a little smoke rose from the banked fires. John Steinbeck (from The Moon Is Down )

Women can change better’n a man,” Ma said soothingly. “Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.” “Man, he lives in jerks-baby born an’ a man dies, an’ that’s a jerk-gets a farm and looses his farm, an’ that’s a jerk. Woman, its all one flow, like a stream, little eddies, little waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it like that. We ain’t gonna die out. People is goin’ on-changin’ a little, maybe, but goin’ right on. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

The darkness crept down and the rain drummed on the steel roof of the cab and the windscreen wipers sobbed their arcs. John Steinbeck (in  Travels With Charley )

It seemed to give the journey a design, and everything in the world must have design or the human mind rejects it. But in addition it must have purpose or the human conscience shies away from it. John Steinbeck (in Travels With Charley )

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Well, maybe like Casy says, a fella ain't got a soul of his own, but on'y a piece of a big one (Tom Joad in Grapes Of Wrath )