np a newspaper

[Scott Badger]

Spade scowled thoughtfuly at the floor, asked, "What'd he do before he
started not making a living writing poetry?"
"Anything--sold vacum cleaners, hoboed, went to sea, dealt blackjack,
railroaded, canning houses, lumber camps, carnivals, worked on a
newspaper--anything."

D. Hammett, _Too Many Have Lived_

(respectfuly submitted by a blue-mooner wanabe)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org]On
> Behalf Of Terrance
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:35 PM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: np a newspaper
>
>
> A newspaper, stephen  crane
>
> A news paper is a collection of half injustices
> which, bawled by boys from mile to mile,
> spreads its curious opinion
> to a million merciful and sneering men,
> while families cuddle the joys of the fireside
> when spurred by tale of dire lone agony.
> A newspaper is a court
> where everyone is kindly and unfairly tried
> by a squalor of honest men.
> a newspaper is a market
> where wisdom sells its freedom
> and melons are crowned by the crowd.
> a newspaper is a game
> where his error scores the player victory
> where another's skill wins death.
> A newspaper is a symbol;
> It is feckless life's chronicle,
> a collection of loud tales
> concentrating eternal stupidities,
> that in remote ages lived unaltered,
> roaming through a fenceless world.