Chasing the Devil's Tail
“Illiterate and tending to be unruly and used only for manual labor, having had no training nor education and not being adaptable for scientific pursuits nor for diversified or intensified agricultural pursuits without close attention.
L.H. Lancaster President, Progressive Union Thibodeaux, Louisiana New Orleans Parish Prison was a harsh, blank, three-story gravestone that stretched along Royal Street from St. Louis to Conti, a scofflaw's nightmare that began the moment his disobedient shoes wer...e dragged up to the gray and somber edifice.
The ugly, glowering block of granite housed courtrooms, municipal offices, a police precinct and, in the basement, a gruesome excuse for a jail, all connected by echoing corridors and stairwells. If Hell could fit in a city block, Valentin had reflected, it would have the exact appearance of this building; and should he ever again be tempted by the fruits of crime, he need only poke his nose down the west side of the French Quarter, catch a glimpse of a single bleak cornerstone of the building, and he would be cured.MoreLess
L.H. Lancaster President, Progressive Union Thibodeaux, Louisiana New Orleans Parish Prison was a harsh, blank, three-story gravestone that stretched along Royal Street from St. Louis to Conti, a scofflaw's nightmare that began the moment his disobedient shoes wer...e dragged up to the gray and somber edifice.
The ugly, glowering block of granite housed courtrooms, municipal offices, a police precinct and, in the basement, a gruesome excuse for a jail, all connected by echoing corridors and stairwells. If Hell could fit in a city block, Valentin had reflected, it would have the exact appearance of this building; and should he ever again be tempted by the fruits of crime, he need only poke his nose down the west side of the French Quarter, catch a glimpse of a single bleak cornerstone of the building, and he would be cured.MoreLess
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