The King of Ragtime (2011)
“WATERSON, BERLIN, AND SNYDER, MUSIC PUBLISHERS. That wife of his, she wouldn’t let him out of the apartment till she wrote out the address for him. He told her he was almost ten years in New York now, he didn’t need any numbers on a piece of paper to find his way to Broadway and Forty-seventh Street, but she wrote it down anyway, and pushed it into his pocket. Women are like that. If they don’t have a real baby, they find a man to treat like one.
Heat rose from the pavement, made the buildi...ng and the people look wavy. Made everything look wavy. Damn, he didn’t like that. He was nervous enough, just coming down here with his music, which of course he never would be doing if Martin hadn’t convinced him he should. Question was, could he really trust Martin? Could he trust anyone anymore, after all he’d been lied to, ignored, pushed aside, even by people every bit as black as himself, those fancy Negroes with their three names. Will Marion Cook.MoreLess
Heat rose from the pavement, made the buildi...ng and the people look wavy. Made everything look wavy. Damn, he didn’t like that. He was nervous enough, just coming down here with his music, which of course he never would be doing if Martin hadn’t convinced him he should. Question was, could he really trust Martin? Could he trust anyone anymore, after all he’d been lied to, ignored, pushed aside, even by people every bit as black as himself, those fancy Negroes with their three names. Will Marion Cook.MoreLess
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