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“In the hole in her head where experience would have stacked up…”

The girl, the young fool’s woman– she didn’t know nothing and she couldn’t do nothing, but she would work, he’d give her that much Haul them buckets, sling them bales, just like a man, better’n a man if you look at what they got for men round here anymore. If she didn’t know nothing to do, she’d find something to do and get all in your hair or climb up your heels like now. She’d make it up as she go along In the hole in her head where experience would have stacked up, if she had any experience, that’s where she must find ‘em, her chucklehead ideas.

from The Lord of Misrule, a novel by Jaimy Gordon. It won the National Book Award for fiction.

3 comments to “In the hole in her head where experience would have stacked up…”

WaySouth

January 6, 2011 at 9:19 am

I find the word “chucklehead” to be totally offensive and hope THE LORD OF MISRULE will be banned from all public schools and libraries.

At a minimum the book should be republished with the word “chucklehead” replaced by a word that is less offensive.

Just my take,

WS
somslawyer

January 7, 2011 at 7:42 am

Haven’t read the book. Is it a portrait of Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, Sharon Angle or Christine O’Donnell?
Jackson

January 7, 2011 at 6:35 pm

SOMSLAYER,

HAHA OMGZ lOL HILARIOUIS!!!211 Keep’em coming srsly too funny lol original humor

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