“Tengo la sensación de haber estado en todos los lugares que el señor creó”, pensó Dove, “pero lo único que he encontrado es gente con vidas muy duras. Lo único que he encontrado son desdichas y degradación. Lo único que he encontrado es que aquellos que lo tenían más difícil para salir adelante se afanaban más en ayudar a los demás que los que lo tenían más fácil. Lo único que he encontrado eran dos clases de persona: las que prefieren vivir en el lado de la calle de los perdedores y no quieren salir adelante, y los que quieren ser de los ganadores, aunque el único camino que les quede para ganar sea pasar por encima de los que ya han caído.”*
Fragmento de 'Un Paseo Por El Lado Salvaje', Nelson Algren (1956)
*"I feel like I been everywhere God got land,’ Dove thought, ‘yet all I found was people with hard ways to go. All I found was troubles ’n degradation. All I found was that those with the hardest ways of all to go were quicker to help others than those with the easiest ways. All I found was two kinds of people. Them that would rather live on the loser’s side of the street with the other losers than to win off by theirselves; and them who want to be one of the winners even though the only way left for them to win was over them who have already been whipped."
Excerpt from 'A Walk On The Wild Side', Nelson Algren (1956)
EscuchaListen
▶Ray Heatherton·'Wheevily Wheat'
▶'I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be a Soldier'
▶Mississippi John Hurt·'Goodnight Irene'
▶Bing Crosby·'Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland'
▶Billie Holiday·'All Of Me'
▶Georgia White·'I Just Want Your Stingaree'
▶Lil Green·'Why Don't You Do Right'
▶Cab Calloway·'Nobody's Sweetheart'
▶Lonnie Donegan·'Ain't No More Cane On The Brazos'
▶The Mills Brothers·'Chinatown, My Chinatown'
▶Lou Reed·'Walk On The Wild Side'
*"I feel like I been everywhere God got land,’ Dove thought, ‘yet all I found was people with hard ways to go. All I found was troubles ’n degradation. All I found was that those with the hardest ways of all to go were quicker to help others than those with the easiest ways. All I found was two kinds of people. Them that would rather live on the loser’s side of the street with the other losers than to win off by theirselves; and them who want to be one of the winners even though the only way left for them to win was over them who have already been whipped."
Excerpt from 'A Walk On The Wild Side', Nelson Algren (1956)
EscuchaListen
▶Ray Heatherton·'Wheevily Wheat'
▶'I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be a Soldier'
▶Mississippi John Hurt·'Goodnight Irene'
▶Bing Crosby·'Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland'
▶Billie Holiday·'All Of Me'
▶Georgia White·'I Just Want Your Stingaree'
▶Lil Green·'Why Don't You Do Right'
▶Cab Calloway·'Nobody's Sweetheart'
▶Lonnie Donegan·'Ain't No More Cane On The Brazos'
▶The Mills Brothers·'Chinatown, My Chinatown'
