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What’s the matter with Kansas?

May 22, 2012 by at 1:40 pm

 

Of course, Percy would say, “Absolutely nothing.”

“Why is a man apt to feel bad in a good environment, say suburban Short Hills, New Jersey, on an ordinary Wednesday afternoon? Why is the same man apt to feel good in a very bad environment, say an old hotel on Key Largo during a hurricane?” Or in a wheat field haunted by a tornado outside Harper Co., Kansas.

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  1. Clare says
    May 22, 2012 at 6:39 pm

    “I was getting married, I really didn’t care about the tornado,”

    I really love this.
    Somehow I think this couple is going to do just fine.

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  2. Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says
    May 22, 2012 at 11:54 pm

    And so it stays just on the edge of vision,
    A small unfocused blur….

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  3. notrelatedtoted says
    May 23, 2012 at 12:34 pm

    Looks like somebody’s about to lose a trailer…..

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