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.
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?
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.
about my childhood...
is that I survived it.
Paterson was a run-down town,
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