The Hurricane Page #2

but one time

He could've been

the champion of the world

Hey, man, it's cold out here.

What are you talking about?

It's like summer for us.

Well, like the summers

in Brooklyn better.

All these people freezing

their butts off to buy books?

That's right.

Lined up like this, not for a

movie or ball game or somethin'?

Ain't it great? No, isn't

it. "Isn't it great?"

Very good.

I stand corrected, Les.

Used books?

Books nobody wants anymore?

That's the great thing

about books.

Once you use them, you can pass

them along to somebody else...

like a torch...

or a football.

You know,

something you pass.

Okay, bring it on in.

Put it down.

Good, good.

Down.

Okay, young man,

that'll be 25 cents.

Jesus.

Twenty-five cent?

Mustn't be

much of a book.

So, Lesra,

what'd you get?

Uh, this.

What is it? I don't know.

It's about a boxer.

It's got, like, 337 pages,

though, you know.

Well, it probably takes a lot of

words to tell someone's life story, eh?

Yeah, well, this guy must be, like, 150

years old if he gon' use all these words.

Sometimes we don't pick the books we read

- they pick us.

It's unfair

Can I get some whiskey

Can I get some whiskey

Can I get some whiskey

We've been home schooling this young man for

eight months. That's how it applies to us.

I'm not married. Mr. Swinton, who you spoke

with, is one of the two men I live with.

No, Sam Chaiton

is the other man I live with.

I don't think you do see,

Mr. Broden.

They are my business partners

and my roommates.

You're the Department

of Education...

and you're telling me you're prepared

to stop this young man's education...

because you can't find some

goddamn high school records?

Yep, that's exactly what

I'm doing, Mr. Broden.

I'm not asking you

to make an exception.

I'm asking you to do your job, which is

different, but I thank you for it anyway.

Sh*t.

Political Science 101.

That art

of gentle persuasion.

Never mind 101.

I need a smoke.

So how was the book sale? Great.

There. Did you get The Other America?

Uh, I couldn't find The

Other America, but I got you-

Sam, Robertson Davies, R.D. Laing.

Don't piss me off today. It's a

book sale, Lisa, not a library.

Whatever.

Hey, look, Lisa.

Got this one right here for

25 cent. The Sixteenth Round.

Oh, your first book, huh?

Yeah.

"Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter. "

Hurricane is the professional

name I acquired later on in life.

Carteris the slave name that

was given to my forefathers...

who worked in the cotton fields

of Alabama and Georgia...

and was passed on to me.

The kindest thing I can say

about my childhood...

is that I survived it.

Paterson was a run-down town,

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