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One was permitted, in caretakership. He was in the cutting room and could not be disturbed. Soames was white as paste. Yet I would ratherhave my nose hairs burned out with a Bic lighter than mess with her.

The first piece, “From Alabamy, with Hate” (1965), appeared in one of the then-naughty men’smagazines that proliferated in the 1960s, under the altered and less inflammatory title “March toMontgomery. And so trying to “talk” to Amos was like trying to get a computer to create original, deeplymeaningful poetry. But that was all forgotten now; he seemed to swell with the newfounddignity he had acquired squiring the columns’ hottest news item. The thrashingintensified, his feet hitting the metal side of the container.