![]() ![]() He is a tragic character, driven by rage which explodes into violence and ends in despair. I met Rufus, a black musician in a relationship with a white woman, when mixed race couples were seen as a betrayal of one’s own kind. He steps in very close to each of them and he delivers interiors so understandable, so very human, that sides cannot be taken and lines cannot be drawn. James Baldwin took me in and marooned me there with little to cling to other than his characters. ![]() To enter Greenwich Village in the late 1950’s, its music and literary scene, its racial tension is to feel the pulse of change to the fingertips. It is the rage of James Baldwin’s, Another Country, and it was presented to me in a way I am unlikely to forget. It arises from humiliation and injustice that can’t find a place to go where further humiliation and injustice cannot follow. ![]() It’s a kind of rage which builds and builds, until you say something or do something because you must. ![]()
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