American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Author:Philip Roth
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Classics, Contemporary, Pulitzer
ISBN: 9780375701429
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1997-01-02T05:00:00+00:00
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and weighed a hundred and forty-five pounds to fight somebody a hundred and
sixty pounds who he could be sure would beat the shit out of him. “Always pick a
redhead, Ee-oh,” Manny said, “he’ll give you the best fight in the world.
Redhead’ll never quit.” Manny the scientist. Manny going up to Norfolk to fight
a sailor, a middleweight contender before the war, and whipping him. Exercising
the battalion before breakfast. Marching the recruits down to the pool every
night to teach them to swim. We practically threw them in—the old-fashioned way
of teaching swimming, but you had to swim to be a marine. Always had to be ready
to do ten more push-ups than any of the recruits. They’d challenge me, but I was
in shape. Getting on the bus going to play ball. The long distances we flew. Bob
Collins on the team, the big St. John’s guy. My teammate. Terrific athlete.
Boozer. With Bob C. got drunk for the first time in my life, talked for two
hours nonstop about playing ball for Weequahic and then threw up all over the
deck. Irish guys, Italian guys, Slovaks, Poles, tough little bastards from
Pennsylvania, kids who’d run away from fathers who worked in the mines and beat
them with belt buckles and with their fists—these were the guys I lived with and
ate with and slept alongside. Even an Indian guy, a Cherokee, a third baseman.
Called him Piss Cutter, the same as the name for our caps. Don’t ask me why. Not
all of them decent people but on the whole all right. Good guys. Lots of
organized grabass. Played against Fort Benning. Cherry Point, North Carolina,
the marine air base. Beat them. Beat Charleston Navy Yard. We had a couple of
boys who could throw that ball. One pitcher went on to the Tigers. Went down to
Rome, Georgia, to play ball, over to Waycross, Georgia, to an army base. Called
the army guys doggies. Beat them. Beat everybody. Saw the South. Saw things I
never saw. Saw the life the Negroes live. Met every kind of Gentile you can
think of. Met beautiful southern girls. Met common whores. Used a condom.
Skinned ‘er back and squeezed ‘er down. Saw Savannah. Saw New Orleans. Sat in a
rundown slopchute in Mobile, Alabama, where I was damn glad the shore patrol was
just outside the door. Playing basketball and baseball with the Twenty-second
Regiment.
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