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1 " When I was your age I knew how to listen to television and learn a few things. "
― Lewis Nordan , The All-Girl Football Team (Vintage Contemporaries)
2 " Belief and disbelief were the same creature within me. "
3 " She said, "Daddy thinks that all the world's magic is almost evolved out."I thought of Roebuck Lake, its swamps and sloughs and loblollies and breaks of cypress and cane, its sunken treetops and stobs and bream beds and sleepy gar rolling over and over and over, its baptizing pools and bridges and mussels and mosquitoes and turkey vultures and, now in the drought, the gray flaking mud-flats and logs crowded with turtles and sometimes a fat snake yawning its tame old cottony mouth like a well-fed dog in a pen.I said, "Is that what the freak show is?"She said, "Dirty miracles. "
4 " Big G.B. said, "Your Daddy ain't magic."I said, "He ain't?"He said, "Naw, there ain't any magic."I said, "What about the blind man's dummy? Is Joesph of Arimathea magic?"He said, "Get your shotgun, Sugar."I went to the corner near the stove and took my shotgun by the barrel. I got my shell bag and looked at Big G.B.to see what he was thinking. His face didn't tell me. I stood by the kitchen door holding the shotgun and shells. I said, "Is Joseph of Arimathea magic, Big G.B.?"He said, "There ain't no magic. Magic is the same as sentimental. Scratch the surface of sentimental and you know what you find?--Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. Magic is German in nature and evil and not real. Scratch magic, Sugar, and you're looking for death. "
