Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins. (John Kennedy Toole)

Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.

John Kennedy Toole

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