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Chapter 10: Thursday, October 25, 2018

8:41 PM

• Paul D: went thru Kentucky to Virginia ○ 2 feet over his "head; three feet of open trench in front of him…he was sent there after trying to kill Brandywine, the man schoolteacher sold him to. Brandywine was leading him… but the trembling was fixed by the time he knew it was there." • Constant repitition of "all fourty-six men" • Paul D remembers the time of his slavery ○ "Occasionally a kneeling man chose gunshot in his head as the price, maybe, of taking a bit of foreskin with him to Jesus… Convinced he was next, Paul D retched—vomiting up nothing at all. ○ "if one pitched and ran—all, all forty-six, would be yanked by the chain that bound them and no telling who or how many would be killed. A man could risk his own life, but not his brother’s. So the eyes said, “Steady now,” and “Hang by me.”" • Cherokee/Buffalo man helped Paul D go to the north "free north. Magical north." ○ "follow the tree flowers… only the tree flowers… you will be wher eyou want ot be when they are gone." (p. 112) • "It was some time before he could put Alfred, Georgia, Sixo, schoolteacher, Halle, his brothers, Sethe, Mister, the taste of iron, the sight of butter, the smell of hickory, notebook paper, one by one, into the tobacco tin lodged in his chest. By the time he got to 124 nothing in this world could pry it open." ○ Tobacco tin lodged in his chest: memories all locked up where it would be safe and he wouldn't remember (open up) again...