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whereas Raoul Treeca prickled his skin.
Henry felt not only trespassed upon but passed
over by Carl Marco, who (objecting to his military
discharge) had refused to hire him; not only crowded
but crowded out by old Tim Hines, with whose refuge
into madness he had been forced to cope. He
sometimes felt that because of Hines's black brothers
and Treeca's brown brothers, and all the people with
names like Marco and Grabaski, and the rest, a man
with a name like Maynard Clarence Henry could not
find work doing construction in a rich state like
Connecticut, but was forced to the degradation of
accepting government handouts. As long as there had
been room for everyone, everyone had been welcome,
but America wasn't building many more Grand Central
Stations or railroads from the Atlantic to the Pacific in
1976. It was not girding its loins with steel anymore, but
tightening its belt. It was as big as it would ever be and
could no longer take care of itself.
The public schools had taught Maynard that, apart
from a little digging up the earth for iron and tobacco,
Connecticut had by and large manufactured its wealth in