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Sweet Thursday

Prologue
    One night Mack lay back on his bed in the Palace Flop house and he said, “I ain’t never been satisfied with that book Cannery Row. I would of went about it different.”
    And after a while he rolled over and raised his head on his hand and he said, “I guess I’m just a critic. But if I ever come across the guy that wrote that book I could tell him a few things.”
    â€œLike what?” said Whitey No. 1.
    â€œWell,” said Mack, “like