Saturday, March 19, 2022

 I've finished Chapter 4 of ROBERTOREG'S NOTES on DEVIL MAKE A THIRD. Now I only have to finish the notes on INTERLUDE #2 to have finished two major sections of my summary and commentary of the a work of fiction completely inspired by real people and events in my hometown of Dothan. Here's the first two paragraphs of my Chapter 4 commentary along with a link where you can read the entire thing.

CHAPTER 4

Chapter 4 opens with Buck finishing off a glass of whiskey in Aven's only saloon, a "Jim Crow" enterprise with a double ended pine bar that separated the races by means of a thin partition across the middle of the bar and serving its Black customers through a curved slot cut into the flimsy wall which allowed the banjo music from their end of the bar to entertain the saloon's entire crowd.

No matter how intelligent 20 year-old Buck might have been, Aven's corn liquor was guaranteed to help him do something stupid so he had sense enough before beginning his drunken evening to deposit in the saloon's safe the $500 down payment he'd taken to Longshore's house for the mortgage negotiation. As the bartender pours Buck one more for the road, he reminds Buck of how liquor stirs evil passions by paraphrasing a proverb from the Bible, "It stingeth like an adder and biteth like a serpent." This biblical reference may not be the only one in this chapter.   

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