March 31, 2005
Santa Monica’s Palisades Park
Another passage from Voodoo, Ltd. by Ross Thomas:
“Often encamped beneath the palms was an assortment of throwaway people, whose current euphemism was ‘the homeless.’ These consisted in part of the deranged, the jobless, the muddled, the addicted, the dispossessed, the senile — plus a variety of other mendicants who ranged from journeyman panhandlers to novice bums.”
One character calls pornographic magazines, “stroke books,” which made me chuckle. The Chairman highly recommends Ross Thomas’s novels.
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