[Joan Didion: from ‘South and West’ (pg 34)] <\/p>\n
“You-all ought to come visit with us,” a third woman said. They were all young women, the oldest among them perhaps thirty. “I’d play organ for you.”<\/p>\n
“We’ll never get up there,” the first woman said. “I never been anyplace I wanted to go.”<\/p>\n
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“The isolation of these people from the currents of American life in 1970 was startling and bewildering to behold. All their information was fifth-hand, and mythicized in the hand down. Does it matter where Taos is, after all, if Taos is not in Mississippi?”<\/p>\n
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