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...complexities of the intimate life reminded me of the story about a rural child-well-informed on such matters-who one day in early spring announced, "Our cat just had kittens, the cows are coming in fresh and Mommy is going to have a baby, but the pussy willows ain't done a thing...
...back before it had a name-back when they was discovering it. That is, they had something all the time, only didn't know, which is a thing a lot o' people don't understand; and they begin to believe this feller or that invented it-and it ain't so, cause I know better...
...they writes books about what Pete used to play; and they 'civilize' the stuff, but they change it too- 'cause you can't feel the blues from reading no book. And you can't spell Bach with a small 'b' and make Basin St. from it. Not that it ain't music or ain't good-but it's different, and some don't know it. And they tell you what jazz is and what it ought to be and I start to thinking that maybe I gone crazy or had too much to drink. But you wait for Pete...
Florabelle bared her tooth and cackled up at him: "Lord, Sugar," she said, "it ain't none of that. It's that I'm one-tenth Negro...
...Ain't That...