Michael Malone - Weebly

"I don't know yet. Ask me twenty years from now.
Sammy, that's the point. If Nixon would go crazy, he'd
be great! What we need in this country are some tragic
heroes. Know what Coleman said? Said there weren't
any in America, not even Lincoln when Booth shot
him." Hayes staggered to his feet and shook his glass at
the stars.
"No heroes! But it's not because there's no throne
to fall off, Sammy, it's because we don't believe in the
Fall. America elected to escape Original Sin. No last
act. That's why. If the land gives out in Tennessee, why,
the grass is always greener on the Great Divide.
Right? Sammy, my friend, if Adam and Eve had
been Americans, they would have left the Garden of
Eden in a covered wagon, yelling, 'Yippy-ki-yi-yay!
Move 'em out!' They would have settled down west in
Babylon and started writing their memoirs and going on
shows telling what it had 'done' to them to be pushed
out of Paradise. Not After the Fall. After the Shove!
That's our philosophy. Yep, and they would have gone
into analysis and 'fixed' their heads."
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