No beam to fry him in his tracks. Then through the break and I was running towardthem the long distance from far right field of the baseball diamond, toward the swings and see-saws. Ifyou’ ve never been inside the joint, what I’ m about to say will resonate about as clearly as Chaucer to oneof the gentle Tasaday. He told me I could gohome but would be back on such-and-such a date.
Oh, God, I thought. Jones’s 1975 movieadaptation. uld simplyfall down, suddenly, ludicrously, fall down: the legs prickling with pins and needles as though he had satcross-legged for a long time. I did it; the dream of every middle-American boy in the early 1940s; to run away and join the circus.
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