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"When you sway in a hammock in August in Louisiana, you can see the concentric waves of heat shimmering and throwing back colors. If you hear music it's because it drifts in on the heat from radios in other hammocks under other banana and fig trees. Of course nobody works. The alligator is the model for both behavior and fashion. Move as little as possible and stay green and deep down. If you have to get up, invent a reason why you can't. If you're hungry, open your mouth and wait for food to fall into it. If you drink, drink gin and tonic or a mint julep. Keep your eyes half lidded and let the flowers perfume your somnolence. The world is a dream and you're a half sleeping alligator, stupidly treading water down in it." --Andrei Codrescu, New Orleans, Mon Amour, Twenty Years Of Writings From The City
/Pretty words, Andrei, almost makes August in NOLA sounds beautiful rather than suffocating.
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