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David A. Demilo
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Sympathy for the Devil
"Sin comes from the soul, not from the flesh..." --St. Augustine T HERE WERE WALLS, invisible walls, everywhere. He was
Even Punks Sing the Blues
Philly is working on a nuclear submarine. Three weeks ago, he was finishing up his shore leave in Boston, seeing
Hitler, Here is Your Victory
"Culture? When I hear the word culture I reach for my pistol." --Herman Goering H E IS INTRODUCED as the
Confronting Moloch
G IVE ME A hero. Someone willing to throw his body on the line, who will feel the cutting edge
A Captive Audience
A LL OVER THE COUNTRY, they sit there with cold eyes and pursed lips, washed faces nursed by distant images
The Color of Their Brains
T HERE'S ONLY ONE STORY I'll ever tell." A whore stood with her pink thumb out to the road, blocking
Heroes and Fools
"Fenway Park is a religious shrine. People go there to worship." --Bill Lee A ND SO THE real history of
Going Away Sadly
"Where have the last feelings of decency and self-respect gone when even our statesmen, in other ways a very unprejudiced
God's Catch
Gloucester is a good American town, the kind of town that hates anything too far out of its ken. Gloucester
Of Wolves and Men
I HATED him like I had never hated anyone before. Hate at first sight, like a wolf and a hunted
Feast of Dollars
It is strictly Italian-American practice, this business of celebrating the saints and pinning large-denomination dollar bills on the icon of
When Cleveland Comes to Zion
Cleveland is the city of oppression. Sordid, evil, satanic oppression. Billowing oppression with smoke so thick that it bogs down
Like a Rat Out of a Trap
The Pillsbury doughboy breathed a heavy sigh on Sunday night. "We killed again," he told reporters after his Red Sox
A Gerbil's Prayer
Don Zimmer is smiling his paunchy smile these days, nervously. He sees his team only 3 1/2 games out of
Like Lemmings to the Sea...
There is no way to describe the greasy, sticky, feeling of self-loathing that seeps into your skin on a Trailways