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Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
FORM A
Circumstances of Interview
STATE
Sew York
NAME OF WORKER Mermen Spector
ADDRESS
DATE
SUBJECT
4121 3rd Avenue
Union Square Fragments
1. Date and tim. of Interview
Monday evenng 34420/39
2. Place of interview
Union Square Park
3. Name and address of informant
Unknown strays
4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in
touch with informant.
5. Name and address of person, if any, accompanyinL you
6. Description of room, house, surroundings, etc.
(Use as many additional sheets as necessary, for any of the forms, each
bearing the proper heading and the number to which the material refers.)
STATE
NN,E OF WORKER.
ADDRESS
DATE.
SUBJECT
FORM C
Text of interview (Unedited)
New York State
Herman Spector
4121 3rd Avenue
Union Square Fragments
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
I WUZEN Mr, BUT
Malta minit, wait. minit, dissa wot believe. Fuhgetta
de priest, he's cot his mine on dare, you justa same likea me. lAiwe me
tell you I doom care you sienna believe, you doan waraa believe. Is
no imaginatioa, dowels some people dey tell you dey seen tine, you cann
be smaht. I tell you wotta happen. I wizen dere. !hat de way dey tell
ale dissa happen, I tink I wanna believe.
Dere wusza place, fawty-seckt street near fift even, befew dent
no9 buildings wenn up, digest bouts yaw time. Diana chauff gotta come
befaw de traffic, supposed ta takes_ de br.i.rel onna truok. Yeah, inns
night. It wussa dahk, tuna liddla room. Die man imam young man, goes up de
cleveyt, put de switch on, de light on, evryting dhk. He look aroun, wet
40 hells. matt, he seen in de dahk a culluhd Laan sittin dere. H. cot liddla
trizht, so he keep movin, he say 'Who dere' nobody answer. En dissa
culluhd man e wus gettin bigga en bigga. E trews fyuh from his mout. De
chauff holla Molds oppastihs, sends olive yt down hurry upt Dry come widda
elevayt, Wassamatta wassamattat He say, dereis oulluhd man sittin on ones
de barrel, trams fyuh from his nout0 Ds Cayman same goddam tine. Dey
tell do story do Boss in also do Boss say I go dire myself tamorra mown.
Sams ting# Boss* hissolf oann stand, nobody can stand, diossa bout nines.
deen.fifadeen, sixdoeu You don manna billion? 01,416 It don't happen ta
me but I know dose people, dissa no lie, anyway you Gann be too amaht•
FUR An SOOPASTITIO1
Gowan, don't lissom ta no praaohasil TUll Go nuts hat they
tellin me about God? They don't know nothin but soopastition, them
fella*. That's fa the rulin call's, that ain't fer us. Ta me it's nothin
this system, it's lousy*, Lissen ta moo s. minute I usedta travel
aroun when I ma a kid, selfaojjioatod• dint get nothin prayin,
I hadda moil for it. Dye think I could get somethin right nmw if I got
down on my knees an started prayinl All them guys know is ta keep ya in
roar, soopestition,
Yeah yeah, the priest lives batten" anybody. rottus he care
about you? You stop payin him an he won't proadh. He don't moik, that man
don't moik, he ain't got no job, it's a position. I don't oar, what they say,
nataral law is the finest lan on earth. I might they learnt me that when
I mu& a baby. I'd be bettor off tidday• Abaddeya mean they gotta be baptisod?
They kin live widout baptism, the Indians live widout baptism That's the
profit system, that's what it is, I told ya befaw, them that's teaohin about
God, Masan it all on God, he don't kill nobody, them is natural laws. I don't
manna go aid the majority, thin/ take this, little kids an tell in what ta think
so he can't say nothin. I prefer an atheist. An aAmtist is smarter booause
they're agonostio, they don't mann be taught b no priests an rabbis. Chicago
is got twenny thousan dollas te talk to anyone arta they're dead, an Ito
wid mai Expose them fakersa I don't oars who it is, if he's talkin about
God hes nothin but a faker. It's fear an soopastitions
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Tawka too much Where I gone buy cheap, huh? You know? Pala boolsheet.
I co buy chainetamrs day gone zive me dollen es o trash, de bees, fur liddla
money. Uot die cockroach zone cive AO, huh? I oessplain dise mans 000kroaoh
coney salesman few ben rrrott. Hi no moikamans fulls boolsheett Small boss zone
help moikamaxl You acoddam lyuhl Not few you help small boss, die rrrotti
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