Negrophile - Ahhhh the American Lexicon Never Ceases to Amaze
Taking a look at norms in the Dictionary of 1959 in America: It all started on sunny day in September. I was Running to the basement to see the maintenance man who was down there snaking a drain, I stopped dead in my tracks. I looked over and two guys were twisting a snake with a drill into a pipe that went somewhere in the house, they said there was a clog. What was that smell? Books, water, records, mold, mmmhmmmmm yep, a 100+ yr old basement. Something so amazing about that smell, it's so familiar like a dogs paws, or their breath. If only I could bottle up dog feet smells and 100 year old dusty, rusty basements... So I look down, with Frick and Frack busy, and I see three books, damp, starting to mold, and I grabbed them immediately. I run to my apartment close the door, back in a safe place to see my findings I looked them over one by one. One; A Merriam Webster Dictionary from 1959, Two: a travel book by Zig Zag, written at the turn of the century, it had a dark blue hardback...