Small House of Everything

Small House of Everything

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

I'M GETTING A SCARY SORT OF VIBE HERE

     He was standing in a Haitian graveyard with a frightened girl.  A frightened Italian was rooted near-by, making throat-sounds like whimpering.  A frightened Negro, a frightened blonde and a frightened college professor were parked in a frightened Model T under the cemetery arch.  Two frightened men were arguing in violent whispers off in the fog; and the only one present who wasn't frightened was the little old lady jaunty aganst the tombstone -- uncaring because she was dead!
          -- Theodore Roscoe, Z Is for Zombie (1937)

     They just don't write them like that any more.  "Frightened Model T;" hah!
       

1 comment:

  1. Well, if Clifford Simak might eventually write "The Ghost of a Model T"...

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