Chapter 15 vocabulary: Zephyr, The Beverly Wilshire Hotel, shit-heel
Sign on wall of a restaurant/bar:
Customer: "What does that sign say?"
Waiter/Bartender: "If I tell you, will you buy another drink?"
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Connections:
"Child of the Romans" by Carl Sandburg
"Haves and Have Nots: Income Inequality in America" ~NPR
"Mae knows. They'll drink a five cent soda and crab that it ain't cold enough. The woman will use six paper napkins and drop them on the floor. The man will choke and try to put the blame on Mae. The woman will sniff as though she smelled rotting meat. And they will go out again and tell forever afterward that the people of the west are sullen. And Mae, when she is alone with Al, has a name for them. She calls them shitheels. 'Truck drivers, that's the stuff. Here's a big transport coming. Hope they stop. Take away the taste of them shitheels. When I worked in that hotel in Albequerque, Al, the way they steal every darn thing. The bigger the car they got, the more they steal. Towels, silver, soap dishes. I can't figger it.' And Al morosely: 'Where ya think they get them big cars and stuff? Born with 'em? You won't never have nothin'.'"
(GoW Audio: Chapter 15, Part IV--0:28-1:30)