#493 Out on Bail- Denis Johnson
This is a drinking take, full of degenerates, crime, and
little hope. Johnson is doing his best William Boroughs impersonation. The
narrator flashes from memory to memory of his times at the Vine bar and his
acquaintance, Jack Hotel that just beat a 25 year prison sentence for robbing a
drug dealer. Although not a fantastic story, or an original one for that
matter, it does have some nice quotes about drinking.
-Because we all believed we were tragic and we drank. We had
that helpless, destined feeling. We would die with handcuffs on. We would be
put a stop to, and it wouldn’t be our fault. So we imagined. And yet we were
always being found innocent for ridiculous reasons.
-Sometimes what I wouldn’t give to have us sitting at a bar
again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.
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