Frasi di Grace Paley

"Listening"
Contesto: What is this crap, Mother, this life is short and terrible. What is this metaphysical shit, what is this disease you intelligentsia are always talking about.
First we said: Intelligentsia! Us? Oh, the way words lie down under decades, then the Union of Restless Diggers out of sheer insomnia pulls them up: daggers for the young but to us they look like flowers of nostalgia that grew in our mother’s foreign garden. What did my mother say? Darling, you should have come to Town Hall last night, the whole intelligentsia was there. My uncle, strictly: the intelligentsia will never permit it.!

Origine: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

"The Contest" (1959)

"The Story Hearer"

"Friends"

"The Contest" (1959)

"Zagrowsky Tells"

"An Interest in Life" (1959)

"This Is a Story about My Friend George, the Toy Inventor"

"The Expensive Moment"

"An Interest in Life" (1959)

"Friends"

"The Loudest Voice" (1959)

"An Interest in Life" (1959)

"An Interest in Life" (1959)

"The Expensive Moment"

"Goodbye and Good Luck" (1959)

"The Story Hearer"

"The Pale Pink Roast" (1959)

"An Irrevocable Diameter" (1959)

"A Conversation with My Father" (1972)

"This Is a Story about My Friend George, the Toy Inventor"

"The Pale Pink Roast" (1959)

"The Floating Truth"

"The Contest" (1959)

"The Loudest Voice" (1959)