The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter 精彩片段：
Part Two-14
Blasphemer! Simms screamed. God will get you. You and all
your crew. God remembers the scoffers. Hewatches after me. God watches everybody but He watches me the most. Like He did Moses. God tells me things in the night.
God will get you.’
He took Simms down to a corner store for Coca-Colas and peanut-butter crackers. Simms began to work on him again.
When he left for the show Simms ran along behind him.
Come to this corner tonight at seven oclock. Jesus has a message just for you.’
The first days of April were windy and warm. White clouds trailed across the blue sky. In the wind there was the smell of the river and also the fresher smell of fields beyond the town.
The show was crowded every day from four in the afternoon until midnight. The crowd was a tough one. With the new spring he felt an undertone of trouble.
One night he was working on the machinery of the swings when suddenly he was roused from thought by the sounds of angry voices. Quickly he pushed through the crowd until he saw a white girl fighting with a colored girl by the ticket booth of the flying-jinny. He wrenched them apart, but still they struggled to get at each other. The crowd took sides and there was a bedlam of noise. The white girl was a hunchback. She held something tight in her hand.
seen you, the colored girl yelled. I ghy beat that hunch off your back, too.’
Hush your mouth, you black nigger!’
Low-down factory tag. I done paid my money and I ghy ride.
White man, you make her give me back my ticket.’
Black nigger slut!’