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86 4110, Zora Neale Hurston"Too late?" he whispered.His eyes buckled in a vacant-mouthed terror and she saw theawful surprise in his face and answered it."Yeah, Jody, don't keer whut dat multiplied cockroach toldyuh tuh git yo' money, you got tuh die, and yuh can't live."A deep sob came out of Jody's weak frame. It was like beatinga bass drum in a hen-house. Then it rose high like pulling ina trombone."Janie! Janie! don't tell me Ah got tuh die, and Ah ain't usedtuh thinkin"bout it.""'Tain't really no need of you dying, Jody, if you had of—dedoctor—but it don't do no good bringin' dat up now. Dat's justwhut Ah wants tuh say, Jody. You wouldn't listen. You done livedwid me for twenty years and you don't half know me atall. Andyou could have but you was so busy worshippin' de works of yo'own hands, and cuffin' folks around in their minds till you didn'tsee uh whole heap uh things yuh could have.""Leave heah, Janie. Don't come heah—""Ah knowed you wasn't gointuh lissen tuh me. You changeseverything but nothin' don't change you—not even death.But Ah ain't goin' outa here and Ah ain't gointuh hush. Naw,you gointuh listen tuh me one time befo' you die. Have yo'way all yo' life, trample and mash down and then die rutherthan tuh let yo'self heah 'bout it. Listen, Jody, you ain't deJody ah run off down de road wid. You'se whut's left after hedied. Ah run off tuh keep house wid you in uh wonderful way.But you wasn't satisfied wid me de way Ah was. Naw! Mahown mind had tuh be squeezed and crowded out tuh makeroom for yours in me.""Shut up! Ah wish thunder and lightnin' would kill yuh!""Ah know it. And now you got tuh die tuh find out dat yougot tuh pacify somebody besides yo'self if you wants any love and