The Troubling Business of Bounty Hunting

[Gary Webb]

This article article is fascinating. I think one of the more fascinating threads that was posted on this very was was when BE debuted, an astute P-lister asked “Where are the Preterite?” ... that really struck me, and as I consume more film noir, and Mark’s recent post about Nelson Algren, and reading more about his work... it does strike me that there are missing pieces/voices today in contemporary America... I think the reason why we don’t read about Preterites in the “Yupper West Side” is because they aren’t there, this technological revolution is writing people out of the equation... a-and the US criminal justice system is an all consuming monster, Dickens in Bleak House evokes prehistoric images when describing the notorious lethargy Court of Chancery, “...and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun.” 

The Us Criminal justice system evokes what, Godzilla going thermonuclear over a city? 

Any this is a great read... 


https://www.gq.com/story/my-time-as-a-bounty-hunter


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