The friend of a friend Stammtaus south of USA. Its slightly sluggish, wider, one could auchsagen: Cozy accent betrays him immediately. Although he despised Barack Obama elected andwhich Donald Trump by heart, he has reservations against north. INNEW York has never been. The people were re to Schnöselig. They let people across Mason-Dixon line feel like y see Hillbillies undRassisten in m.
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The intention to write an article about DieErlebnisse se days was nothing. But dieNotizen this journey of travel – Californian Joan Didion was 1942/43 to last time in sourn states – was now published under title South and west. "Notes", however, sounds very modest for what wirvor us. "The sense of owning a notebook," wrote Didion in a 1966-based, "never insisted on exactly what Ichtatsächlich did or thought, and he is not re now. (...) Remember what it was like to be me: rein lies meaning. " So se records are also EineAnnäherung to a state – but not only I, which was Didion at point of travel, is to be found in it, but also situation of country.
This humid, humid worldIt's fine, EpisodenhafteBeobachtungen. In an impressive sense, Didion leads us to sighted and belonged eyes, transforms us atmospherically into this landscape, to create undDialogen moods in secondary sentences and to trace contradictory nature of eingefleischtenSüdstaatler. For example, white operator of a radio station Inmeridian, which is exclusively gospel and soul music for black Bevölkerungspielt. This Stan Torgerson speaks enthusiastically about possibilities offered by DerSüden, also for industry; He explains that re is a noticeable change, slowly though, but at least. The Ku Klux Klan, which was a major size in community, was no longer. Blacks would have inzwischenZugang to all public places. "I'm not saying I'm going to have a schwarzenPastor for dinner with me tonight, because that's not case. But things are changing." The Times y are a-Changin ' – but do you Daswirklich?
The prevailing climate is Aucham end of this decade of departure, civil rights and Frauenbewegungnoch always shaped by old Sourn pride and smoldering resentment, from a traditional values order and inherited good manners. Once, at a dinner, host of Joan Didion wants to know why it was ihrvor some years for reporting refunds to "run with a bunch of marijuana smoking hippie scum". Didion, EmanzipierteIntellektuelle, does not understand right at first, asks who you should have given to EineErlaubnis. And your host adds, of course, "You have a husband? (...) This man I thought was your husband for a few years is your husband? "
Date Of Update: 27 March 2018, 12:03
