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BLIND MAN WITH A PISTOL
by Chester Himes


Copyright 1969 by Estate of Chester Himes

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Great Britain by Allison & Busby Ltd in 1986.

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, DECEM8ER 1989



Preface

A friend of mine, Phil Lomax, told me this story about a blind man with a pistol shooting at a man who had slapped him on a subway train and killing an innocent bystander peacefully reading his newspaper across the aisle and I thought, damn right, sounds just like today's news, riots in the ghettos, war in Vietnam, masochistic doings in the Middle East. And then I thought of some of our loudmouthed leaders urging our vulnerable soul brothers on to getting themselves killed, and thought further that all unorganized violence is like a blind man with a pistol.

CHESTER HIMES








Foreword

"Motherfucking right, it's confusing; it's a gas, baby, you dig."

A Harlem intellectual



I know what you want.
How you know that?
Just lookin at you.
Cause I'm white?
Tain't that. I got the eye.
You think I'm looking for a girl.
Chops is your dish.
Not pork.
Naw.
Not overdone.
Naw. Just right.



"Blink once, you're robbed," Coffin Ed advised the white man slumming in Harlem.
"Blink twice, you're dead," Grave Digger added dryly.