Feet on the Street by Roy Blount Jr

Author:Roy Blount Jr.
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307237002
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2005-02-01T10:00:00+00:00

Lagniappe with Color

ROYAL STREET

Once on Royal Street I came upon a crowd that was cheering and groaning strangely. A man was lying in the middle of the street, agonizingly working his way out of a straitjacket. He dislocated one shoulder, then the other. In the end he was beet-red and scraped up, but free to pass a can around for change.

THE ROYAL ORLEANS

Its Rib Room provides excellent expensive food—New Orleans cooks can do steak as inventively as oysters—and also an opportunity to eavesdrop on high-rolling businessmen, like the two I overheard indulging in petrochemical nostalgia: “Before EPA, hell, we’d dump shit, when it came out, the hairs on your arms would sizzle—but you could do that back then.”

“That’s right. I was in Thailand coming upriver to where we were building a refinery, and all of a sudden, what’d we hit? We ran into this village’s whole fishing industry. It’s a trotline all across the river, hand-woven out of bark, must’ve taken years, beautiful thing. I said, ‘I’m not going to cut that,’ but of course, had to. We wound up destroying that village. Houses, trees . . .”

“It was a different world back then.”

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