The story of Mighty Joe Young and his delivery cart in Brooklyn, who claimed that if Eisenhower died from his heart attack then Nazis would take over, so he put black streamers on his cart, whilst still entertaining the adolescent boys of the area to the pornography books that part of his cart contained. Till he married a woman, we are told by one of the boys as narrator, a woman who seems almost “a mongolian idiot” with “duck-footed” walk! And the boys, when they saw less and less if his wife, till she never reappeared, feared the worst, but was Joe protecting her or had something just ordinarily open-ended happened? They were just blandly happy to the point of tears? A wondrously neutralised boredom then ensuing with pangs of regret for all of us, whatever the era or area? An inscrutable classic.
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