The Big Drag (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Big Drag It is a slow, somehow macabre series of events that begins each morning at a certain unearthly hour in many parts of this land. Roosters waddle obscenely out of the henhouse and scream their ugly, marrow-chilling reveille. Alarm clocks cut out sleepers' hearts with hot knives. Cold showers, the rainstorms of the devil, beat men's souls into jelly. Eyes are opened, shoelaces are tied, coffee is drunk and busses are caught. Financial pages are read, small talk dribbles across the landscape like the retchings of a drunk, and men who have grappled through the night with the problem of whether to murder their brothers now behave to each other as if they were genuinely glad the sky was blue and the sun bright. In one form or another, this unholy ritual takes place in downtown Chicago with the damp lake air blowing in like a wet kiss, in Boston's Beacon Hill with the milk horses clattering and skidding on the dewy cobblestones, along Route 1 winding its gray way through Maryland and in a thousand other cities, villages and allegedly civilized places where men and women live. If you get right down to it, it even takes place in New York. In the far reaches of the Bronx, an accountant inspects his tongue gloomily by the bathroom mirror. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.