He’s going to get drunk now, not so much because he can, but because we can’t,” I said. - Percival Everett

strange a world, how strange an existence, that one’s equal must argue for one’s equality, that one’s equal must hold a station that allows airing of that argument, that one cannot make that argument for oneself, that premises of said argument must be vetted by those equals who do not agree. My chills returned and I thought again

"I ain't never seen two fellas talk so much and say so little," Huck said.
"You be almos' thinkin' dey be preachers," I said.
"You know what I could go fer, Bilgewater?"
"What's that, Dolphin?"

I wrote to extend my thought, I wrote to catch up with my own story, wondering all the while if that was even possible.