“Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They’re inexpensive and easy to procure.”

— Robert Penn Warren

Newsweek (25 August 1980)

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“Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They’re inexpensive and easy to procure.”

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