No I don't see
much, Melanctha, in being brave just to get it good, where you've
got no business. I ain't ashamed Melanctha, right here to tell you, I
ain't ashamed ever to say I ain't got no longing to be brave, just
to go around and look for trouble." "Yes that's just like you always,
Jeff, you never understand things right, the way you are always
feeling in you. You ain't got no way to understand right, how it
depends what way somebody goes to look for new things, the way it
makes it right for them to get excited."
"No Melanctha, I certainly never do say I understand much anybody's
got a right to think they won't have real bad trouble, if they go and
look hard where they are certain sure to find it. No Melanctha, it
certainly does sound very pretty all this talking about danger and
being game and never hollering, and all that way of talking, but when
two men are just fighting, the strong man mostly gets on top with
doing good hard pounding, and the man that's getting all that
pounding, he mostly never likes it so far as I have been able yet to
see it, and I don't see much difference what kind of noble way they
are made of when they ain't got any kind of business to get together
there to be fighting. That certainly is the only way I ever see it
happen right, Melanctha, whenever I happen to be anywhere I can be
looking."
"That's because you never can see anything that ain't just so simple,
Jeff, with everybody, the way you always think it.
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