Words&Dirt

“‘Why does everybody want to be famous,’ Dellarobia asked, ‘and at the same time they want to hear the ugliest trash about famous people?’

‘I guess they hate what they haven’t got.’

‘Everybody wants to be rich, too, but there’s still some kind of team spirit.  You should hear Bear on his rant against raising taxes on the millionaires.  He says they worked for every penny, and that’s what he went in the military to protect.’

‘Wow.  He was a gunner in ‘Nam to protect CEO salaries?’

‘I guess.’

‘Well, yeah,’ Dovey said.  ‘That’s America.  We watch shows about rich people’s houses and their designer dresses and we drool.  It’s patriotic.'”

––Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver, pg. 303

“Oh they’re a terror the men, a terror now to the living world.”

––The Butcher Boy, by Patrick McCabe, pg. 9