Author:  Walker Percy
Book:    The Moviegoer
Viewed: 98 - Published at: 10 years ago

Last summer I picked up a yellow scrap of newspaper and read of a Biloxi election in 1948, and in it I caught the smell of history more pungently than from the metal marker telling of the French and Spanish two hundred years ago and the Yankees one hundred years ago. 1948. What a faroff time.

( Walker Percy )
[ The Moviegoer ]
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