A guitar busker, a joint hopper, tip canary, kitty-box man, movie people, hoss wranglers, dead enders, stew bums, stealers, dealers, sidewalk spielers, con men, sly flies, flat foots, reefer riders, dopers, smokers, boiler stokers, sailors, whalers, bar flies, brass railers, spittoon tuners, fruit-tree pruners, cobbers, spiders, three-way riders, honest people, fakes, vamps, bleeders, saviors, saved, side-street singers, whore-house hunters, door-bell ringers, footloosers, rod riders, caboosers, outsiders, honky tonk and whiskey setters, tight-wads, spendthrifts, race-horse betters, blackmailers, gin soaks, comers, goers, good girls, bad girls, teasers, whores, buskers, corn huskers, dust bowlers, dust panners, waddlers, toddlers, dose packers, syph carriers, money men, honey men, sad men, funny men, ramblers, gamblers, highway anklers, cowards, brave guys, stools, snitches, nice people, bastards, sonsabitches, fair, square, and honest folks, low sneaking greedy people. . . . . . . Miguel de Unamuno, Robert Jordan, Annie Dillard, James Lee Burke, James A. Michner, J.R.R. Tolkien, Alice Walker, Martin Luther, John (Cardinal) Newman, Martin Buber, Edward Gibbon, Ernest Hemingway, Faulkner and my aunt Tressie who died 18 years before I was born.
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