“Dis is uh high tall house. Maybe it won’t reach heah at all,” Janie counseled. “And if it do, maybe it won’t reach tuh de upstairs part.” “Janie, Lake Okechobee is forty miles wide and sixty miles long. Dat’s uh whole heap uh water. If dis wind is shovin’ dat whole lake disa way, dis house ain’t nothin’ tuh swaller. Us better go. Motor Boat!”
Big brain Tea Cake
“ ’Tain’t no boogerman got me tuh study ’bout. Maybe you think Ah ain’t treatin’ yuh right and you watchin’ me.”
This reminds me of how Jody acted.
“Oh, you needs tuh learn how. ’Tain’t no need uh you not knowin’ how tuh handle shootin’ tools. Even if you didn’t never find no game, it’s always some trashy rascal dat needs uh good killin’,”
If you know you know
“We got a rich man round here, then. Buyin’ passenger trains uh battleships this week?”
This reminds me of when the girl Daisy has the two suitors who offer to get her a steam ship and a passenger train.
Then one day she sat and watched the shadow of herself going about tending store and prostrating itself before Jody, while all the time she herself sat under a shady tree with the wind blowing through her hair and her clothes. Somebody near about making summertime out of lonesomeness.
She starts desociating
“Dat’s uh new idea ’bout varmints, Mayor Starks. But Ah laks it mah ownself. It’s uh noble thing you done.” Everybody agreed with that.
Jody let it slip that he doesn't care for the mule, and Sam comments on it, but thinks that the act of helping the mule outweighs it.
Turned the hoe-cake with a plate and then made a little laugh. What was she losing so much time for? A feeling of sudden newness and change came over her.
I wonder if she really planned on leaving before this?
“Leave de s’posin’ and everything else to me
Foreshadows.
The dream is the truth.
The dream is not something you can choose to forget? Is this meant to contrast a dream to other types of memories?