From Ishmael Reed’s Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down:
…in Africa — you know, that strange continent which serves as the subconscious of our planet — where we’ve found the earliest remains of man…Who knows what lurks in the secret breast of that Continent, shaped so like the human skull?
The Pope looked at Drag in disgust. One should always believe the other side is capable of doing anything it says — you’re a young country and you don’t know that but you’ll learn — the hard way.
As they say, or as he use to say when he tried to con the farmers, pretending he was one of their own, “as ye sow so shall ye reap.”
The Amazons preferred their own thing. It was a big world wasn’t it? And who cared as long as no one starved and everybody could swing the way he wanted.