- You monster, you, you dirty little monster, you murderer. You think about me. Go ahead, Leery. You think bad thoughts about me. And maybe some man in this station, some man with guts, somebody who's so sick to death of listening to this kind of radio and willing to take a chance will sneak up behind you and lay something heavy across your skull and end this once and for all!
- You're a bad man! You're a veery bad man!
- You think that. Go ahead, Leery. I'm a very bad man. Keep thinking that. Somebody sneak up behind him, Chicago! Somebody end this, now, while he's thinking about me! Will somebody take a lamp or a bottle or something and end this, Chicago?
- You're a bad man! You're a veery bad man and you keep thinking bad thoughts about me.
- Wish it into the cornfield of Indiana. Please, Leery, wish it into the cornfield, please.
- He was a bad man, so I turned him into a jack-in-the-box. A jack-in-the-box that still had his Barney Rubble face. And you mustn't think bad thoughts about me either or I'll do the same thing to you. Play some more Lance Briggs sound.
- It's good what you done to Danny Mac. It's real good.
- It was swell. It was just swell. It was...really, really, really great.
- I kinda liked it a little bit better when we had cities outside and we could get real radio. Things like that.
- Spiegs, it's real good for you to say such a thing. It's real good. But how can you mean it? Why, Leery's radio is much better than anything we ever used to get.
- Oh, yes it's fine. Why, Leery's radio is the best radio we've ever heard.
- They're stabbing white people outside.
- Leery, are you making it about race?
- Yes, I'm making it about race.
- Why, that'll ruin half the day's programming, you know that, don't ya? Half the shows, that'll...
- FINFER!
- ...but it's good that you're making it about race, Leery, it's real good. Tomorrow...tomorrow's going to be a real good day.
No comment here, no comment at all. We only wanted to introduce you to one of our very special citizens, little Laurence Holmes, age 36, who does middays in a place that used to be the Score. And if by some strange chance you should run across him, you had best think only good thoughts. Anything less than that is handled at your own risk, because if you do meet Leery, you can be sure of one thing: you have entered The Rosen Zone._________________
Molly Lambert wrote:
The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.
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