Carrabelle


There's a Camp Gordon Johnston Museum in Carrabelle. I went there to get a bumper sticker for my car, and because that's where Slim McElderry's house came from, a surplus barracks.


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Somewhere not far from Carrabelle, in an Army Camp, Gore Vidal wrote Williwaw. I don't know where. I don't know when.

Why mention it?

I sound like Clemmie, saying he could remember when didn't but two things come in cans: tomatoes and sardines.

And? Your point is?

I called a book a wage-slave narrative once, making fun of slave narratives.

Slave narratives have a form. In fact, the same form, all of them. You hear one slave narrative, you've heard them all.

Debbil crabs, debbil crabs, debbil crabs. It's in the oral tradition.


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