Romare Bearden, "Mother and Child," 1977
Romare Bearden, Mother and Child (1977)
Can a Game Be Literature?

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September 4, 2004:

Her disbelief is actually pretty reasonable. Granted it was an obviously broken arm with the bone sticking through the skin. Yet by that time I was so committed to school avoidance through malingering that it must have seemed like any other phantom ailment that would disappear round about the end of the school day.